Large earthquake causes injuries, building damage in California

The largest earthquake to hit the San Francisco Bay Area in 25 years sent scores of people to hospitals, ignited fires, damaged multiple historic buildings and knocked out power to tens of thousands in California’s wine country on Sunday.

Street ball has its day with dunks, bravado

The Ball Up all-stars concluded their season at Cox Pavilion on Saturday night. What they do is play street ball — what some of us old-timers once called playground basketball.

Mobile health clinic provides care to homeless

Physician-assisted students from Touro University Nevada provide medical treatment to the homeless in Las Vegas in the school’s mobile health care clinic.

 
Man in custody following four shooting deaths

A suspect in a series of shootings that killed three people and four people within the span of an hour Sunday in the northern suburbs of Los Angeles was taken into custody following a standoff, police said.

Reid calls legislators ‘cowards’ over prostitution

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid stood his ground in opposing legalized prostitution in Nevada last week, telling Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce members that state legislators were “all a bunch of cowards” for their inaction on the issue.

Lawyer faces charges from Nevada’s State Bar, rape allegation

The State Bar of Nevada is investigating seven grievances against David Phillips, including one filed by a district judge. A Maryland attorney has also filed a federal lawsuit accusing Phillips of raping her at a legal conference in 2012.

New Vegas Reserve Center has arsenic problem

Ever since citizen-soldiers moved into the George W. Dunaway Army Reserve Center in Sloan last year, they have been using the spacious building for training and weekend drills without full access to water from a 900-foot-deep well that supplies the facility — all because of arsenic.

Dad of shooting victim seeks peace at St. Louis festival attendees

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday in St. Louis’ largest park for a festival encouraging peace over violence — an event that took on new resonance after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer.

 
Rap mogul Suge Knight hurt in nightclub shooting

Death Row Records founder and rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was injured in an early morning shooting Sunday in a packed nightclub but was expected to survive, a Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant said.

PR, marketing firms use new technologies to deliver messages

Last year, Clark County was home to 714 jobs in marketing consulting services and 2,684 jobs in advertising and public relations, according to the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages within the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

Man dead in North Las Vegas shooting

A man died after being shot in North Las Vegas Sunday afternoon, police said.

 
Long Island crash leaves 3 children, 2 adults dead

A woman, her three children and their grandmother were returning home from a family gathering when their car veered off a Long Island highway, crashed into a tree and burst into flames, killing all of them, authorities said Sunday.

Actor-director Richard Attenborough dies at 90

Acclaimed actor and Oscar-winning director Richard Attenborough, whose film career on both sides of the camera spanned 60 years, has died. He was 90.

Minor leaguers deal with need for additional work

Life might be glamorous in the majors — where the minimum salary is $500,000 and the average salary is almost $4 million — but in the minors it’s anything but.

Two cars destroyed in garage fire

Two cars were destroyed following a Sunday afternoon garage fire in the north valley, the Las Vegas Fire Department said.

ESPN pumping new life into Keith’s transplant story

Simon Keith, the former UNLV soccer star, is a survivor of a life-and-death situation. In 1986, when he was 21, he underwent heart transplant surgery. Only he didn’t tell anybody, other than his coaches and a few others who had a need to know.

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