The Clark County School District is getting a tough lesson in math as it deals with surging enrollment and aging campuses, amid numbers that come nowhere near adding up. As the Review-Journal’s Trevon Milliard reported last week, the district plans to spend $301 million in the next five years on capital projects, including replacing one school entirely, renovating and replacing equipment at older schools, and adding portable classrooms to alleviate student crowding.
“My peeps are begging me to stay in legislature for life.”
A woman went to a meet-and-greet for the band Boston recently and she told the group, “This is show No. 114 for me.” Boston guitarist Gary Pihl thought, “Wow, that’s more shows than my wife’s been to.”
It almost wasn’t fair. The NBA Summer League in Las Vegas had for nine previous years grown in a positive direction. More teams. More fans. More interest.
Las Vegas police are asking for help identifying two men they said committed a robbery Sunday morning. At approximately 10:25 a.m., the suspects robbed a business in the area of Rainbow and Cheyenne.
Ty Kelly drove in four runs, including a game-tying three-run home run in the sixth inning, to help lead Tacoma to an 11-8 Pacific Coast League home victory over Las Vegas on Monday night.
Led by MVP guard Ray McCallum’s 29 points, Sacramento fought off fatigue and Houston, winning 77-68 and capturing the NBA Summer League championship.
More pictures and video have surfaced showing what happened before a city officer punched a woman at the city’s gay pride parade and festival last month, which the city’s police union contends show the officer was justified.
A continued surge in the number of abused and neglected children at Clark County’s emergency shelter pushed it over capacity while state approval to raise its maximum population was pending.
The folks at Insomniac Events, which puts on the Electric Daisy Carnival, have released a cool series of videos chronicling this year’s festivities, featuing performances by the likes of Laidback Luke, Arty and Boregore.
The Montgomery County coroner’s office in Ohio said Monday that autopsy results showed Jonathon Quarles Jr., of Indianapolis, died of multiple injuries from the dog attack. Police say the baby’s step-grandmother was watching him for the day in Dayton when her dog attacked and killed him Sunday afternoon.
The Market, a new grocery on East Fremont Street, is projected to open in late September across from the El Cortez and a two-minute stroll from Container Park. About 10,000 items will line the shelves of the 6,000-square-foot urban grocery,
Your swimsuit and your sunscreen are in the luggage, and your boarding passes are all printed out. But did you remember your gadgets and chargers? Did you download enough entertainment? Do you know where you’re going?
Last month the Supreme Court made a very significant decision – they ruled unanimously that an inherited IRA is not a “retirement account.” This means that inherited IRAs are now NOT protected in the case of bankruptcy under federal law. The unanimous decision could have far reaching ramifications depending on your specific circumstances.
James Garner was bitten by the auto racing bug while filming “Grand Prix” in 1966. He did his own driving in the movie. He also was an accomplished off-road racer, who loved driving in the Mint 400 and in Baja.
A former Palms race and sports book supervisor was sentenced to 366 days in federal prison Monday in a betting scheme that authorities say cost the resort $800,000.
Police are investigating reports of sexual assaults against several women, including some prostitutes, after linking several cases in which they described a similar attacker.
Two Las Vegas police supervisors who pushed for transparency from the department’s troubled air unit are now asking the Nevada attorney general to investigate whether Metro brass covered up problems in the wake of an officer’s death.
The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld a $1 million jury verdict against a security firm on behalf of a man who was attacked in a Las Vegas Walmart parking lot in 2004 and who later died.
The North Las Vegas police officer involved in a deadly shooting last week has been identified. Officer Robert Makinster shot and killed shot and killed Kenneth Alan Johnson, 34, after he pulled out a replica gun while being chased, according to the department. Police tried to stop Johnson, who was riding a moped, but he didn’t pull over.
An Army veteran who hurt his back during the Iraq War is worried a citation will result in him losing his 14 pet ducks, which he says are therapeutic.
Las Vegas police are seeking a man who may have been involved in last week’s Fashion Show mall shooting.
Visiting Las Vegas, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the head of the Democratic National Committee, on Monday defended Senate Majority Harry Reid’s Senate leadership, saying Republicans deserve all the blame for gridlock in Congress.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — Fort Mojave Mesa Fire Chief Darrell Raburn, 64, died Monday.
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz visited Las Vegas on Monday, stumping for Democratic candidates and leading a town hall with women activists at the party’s headquarters.
A report prepared for a legislative committee on utility rates over the past nearly 30 years shows what most consumers already know. It costs a lot more today to turn on the lights and cool the house than it did just three decades ago.
A Las Vegas man arrested over the weekend at a Pennsylvania casino has been on Nevada gambling regulators’ radar as a casino cheat since 1999. Jubreal Chahine, 40, was taken into custody without incident.
The casino industry’s first female gaming regulator, a former Las Vegas mayor turned gaming executive, an American Indian gaming pioneer and a late gaming law expert will be inducted into the Gaming Hall of Fame in September.
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