Henderson resident Jean Bowles Jenkins, 99, was a pioneer in the real estate industry in Southern California and the Las Vegas Valley, from designing open-kitchen floor plans to convincing home builders to offer sales commissions to real estate agents.
NBC has picked its Peter Pan: high-flying “Girls” star Allison Williams.
Bill Butier, president of Las Vegas-based Access Health Dental, was chagrined when he saw signs for another dental company while he was strolling around Cashman Field.
The man who was killed by Henderson police on Tuesday was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office on Monday as Jesse Vigil, 51.
Ownership of KTNV-TV, Channel 13 is changing under a merger announced Wednesday by E.W. Scripps Co. and Journal Communications.
Eddie Davis was set on continuing his basketball career at the junior college level.
I have never been to a major golf championship. Something always came up. You know: money, timing, family or various fiascos.
Each day, 8.3 million people around the globe — roughly the population of New York City — step aboard an airplane. They almost always land safely. Some flights, however, are safer than others.
With a small adjustment, a bill that would add 26,000 acres to the reservation of the Moapa Band of Paiutes moved forward in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday.
Police say they were professional burglars who quickly became cold-blooded killers. Cody David Winters, 27, also known as “Havoc,” and Natasha Galenn Jackson, 35, terrorized a southeast Las Vegas neighborhood Tuesday, police said, choosing their victims at random in a frantic attempt to escape capture.
A judge has found a 73-year-old Sparks man competent to stand trial for murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed trespasser the former schoolteacher insists was justified under Nevada’s “stand your ground” law.
Nevada officials on Wednesday said reports of institutional abuse at the Nevada Youth Training Center in Elko were investigated after they were first reported in December, but it was determined that each use of “mechanical restraints” was necessary for the situation.
A Las Vegas man who admitted to killing a 4-month-old boy with an ax and wounding the child’s mother was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The Miami Dolphins, rocked by a bullying scandal last season, are now wearing T-shirts bearing a credo of togetherness that was coined by the players.
A man who raped and killed Kelsey Grammer’s sister nearly 40 years ago has been denied parole after the actor testified against his release.
A torrent of water spewed from a nearly century-old pipe that burst in Los Angeles, shutting down a section of Sunset Boulevard and inundating the campus of UCLA. Here are some of the numbers behind Tuesday’s rupture.
A sharply divided House has approved a Republican plan to file an election-season federal lawsuit against President Barack Obama.
Like most of the U.S. House on Wednesday, lawmakers from the Silver State split along party lines in voting whether to authorize a lawsuit against President Barack Obama for executive actions he has taken to revise requirements of the Affordable Care Act, a target of relentless Republican opposition since it was passed four years ago.
Clark County’s taxable sales blew past pre-recession levels in May to hit an all-time high for the month.
When 135 medical students gathered Wednesday for entry into the Class of 2018 Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine program at Touro University Nevada, former U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley anticipated passage of a bill that will some day let many of them train at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in North Las Vegas.
When NBA commissioner Adam Silver floated the idea of playing a mid-season tournament in Las Vegas, the media reacted as if it was a harebrained idea. Here’s one vote for Silver’s proposal.
Longtime public schools official Priscilla Rocha will remain released on her own recognizance until her April 2015 trial on 50 felony counts related to $289,000 in alleged thefts from the Clark County School District, decided a district court judge Wednesday.
A family that was stymied for almost a year trying to recover the remains of their murdered brother from the grounds of Lake Mead took their frustrations straight to the top on Wednesday.
If you watched Carrie Underwood in NBC’s “The Sound of Music Live!” and thought, “Pssshhh, that doesn’t look too hard,” here’s your chance to see for yourself.
After going dark for the first time in more than three years, First Friday is scheduled to return this week with new goals and ideas to grow the monthly arts festival.
Martin Dean Dupalo began creating a map showing hundreds of alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act in the Las Vegas area. Four years later, the city of Las Vegas announced a plan to correct about two-thirds of the problems he cited.
WASHINGTON — The House overwhelmingly approved a landmark bill Wednesday to refurbish the Veterans Affairs Department and improve veterans’ health care.
The man accused of armed robbery at the Bellagio and a Las Vegas bank — spending the loot on prostitutes and a shopping spree — has been charged in a two-count criminal complaint in federal court.
Midway through the interview, I begin to wonder if Rick DeJesus could charge a cellphone through his voice alone. This is the energy with which the guy speaks.
