Mohave County Search and Rescue personnel in northwestern Arizona combed the Mohave Channel near Kingman on Tuesday for a person reported missing when the normally dry wash ran like a raging river Monday night, but then gave up the search after no one was reported missing.
The White House is defying a congressional subpoena by keeping a top political aide to President Barack Obama from testifying at a hearing Wednesday, setting up a potential new legal battle in this midterm election year.
Cleveland Clinic, best known in Southern Nevada for its work at the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, ranked fourth nationally in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Hospitals” survey released Tuesday. In Las Vegas, the center’s specialties in urology ranked No. 1 and neurology ranked No. 6.
One of the owners of Super Liquor stores on the Strip pleaded guilty Tuesday in a tax evasion scheme authorities say hid $4 million in gross receipts from the IRS.
The annual salaries of the North Las Vegas and Henderson constables were dropped to $103,456 from, respectively, about $250,000 and $180,000 on Tuesday.
The Nye County inmate who didn’t return to jail after being on work release on Saturday has been found. Jonathan Ross Moncada, 31, left the Nye County Detention Center on Saturday and did not come back when he was supposed to, according to the sheriff’s office.
The ex-wife of a police officer who left the department after a report tied him to the Ku Klux Klan told investigators that the couple joined the group as part of an undercover operation, according to a report released Tuesday by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
A senior fellow of the CATO libertarian think tank criticized the proposed Nevada business margins tax in Reno on Tuesday, calling it “something that chokes off the start of new businesses.”
Using her keys as a primitive scalpel to cut off her own leg was one of the options Noel Shannon considered the night she lay trapped under her 1996 Toyota truck.
Las Vegas lawyer R. Christopher Reade was sentenced to 366 days in federal prison Tuesday in a $2.3 million money laundering scheme involving one of his former clients.
A new week has brought another record low to Lake Mead, but the man in charge of the Las Vegas Valley’s water supply doesn’t sound worried.
The woman who died in a car crash Saturday night at Lake Mead National Recreation Area has been identified.
Clark County firefighters will get a 1.5 percent cost-of-living pay increase under an agreement reached between county management and the firefighters’ union.
BOSTON — State gambling regulators are weighing how to respond to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s refusal to participate in arbitration with Wynn Resorts for a financial compensation deal.
ATLANTIC CITY — A Wall Street credit rating firm that was among the most pessimistic about the prospects for Internet gambling in New Jersey has cut its already-conservative estimate on the state’s first-year online winnings by more than half.
The History channel series set at Count’s Kustoms is back with a batch of new episodes.
WASHINGTON — U.S. retail sales increased slightly in June, evidence that consumers remain cautious despite steady job gains this year.
Pregnant women have new protections against on-the-job discrimination. The government has updated 30-year-old guidelines, citing “the persistence of overt pregnancy discrimination, as well as the emergence of more subtle discriminatory practices.”
The rate of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is falling in the United States and some other rich countries — good news about an epidemic that is still growing simply because more people are living to an old age, new studies show.
Dwyane Wade is staying with the Miami Heat, and his latest deal is designed to give both the player and the only franchise he’s ever known some flexibility in the coming years.
A suicide bomber blew up a car packed with explosives near a busy market and a mosque in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 89 people in the deadliest insurgent attack on civilians since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.
No breaking in period necessary for lighter glove that comes with yellow fingers and latest technology.
Police in Central California have found three bright orange Tillamook cheese vans that were stolen over the weekend.
Mark Newhouse became the first player since 2004 to reach back-to-back final tables of the World Series of Poker Main Event as Day 7 of the tournament concluded early Tuesday at the Rio Convention Center.
U.S. customs inspectors at Los Angeles International Airport seized a shipment of several dozen live giant African snails, considered a delicacy in Nigeria but also voracious pests that can eat paint and stucco off houses, officials said on Monday.
College students in Nevada who do not complete college-level introductory math courses early on in their studies are far less likely to graduate than those who do, a new report shows.
The National Weather Service has announced a second severe thunderstorm warning that could result in gusty winds along U.S. Highway 95, west of Indian Springs.
Three buildings at UNLV were evacuated Tuesday morning after a gas leak.
J. Keith Mularski’s world has expanded greatly since he stopped selling discount furniture to join the FBI in 1998. Especially since he transferred from Washington, D.C., in 2005 to fill a vacancy in the Pittsburgh field office’s cyber squad — which he now heads.
Two kids in Texas are safe thanks to some quick thinking good Samaritans who took matters into their own hands when they noticed the kids stuck in a hot car on Monday.
