Lionel Sawyer & Collins, the top gaming firm with the most political juice in the state moves into the realm of history as 19 lawyers, including founder Sam Lionel, join a large regional law firm called Fennemore Craig, which at 130 years old is the largest continuously operating law firm in Arizona.
Searchers found the body of Cameron Beckford in Big Walnut Creek on Wednesday morning, said Sgt. Rich Weiner, a Columbus police spokesman.
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Southern Nevadans are only at the beginning of the influenza season with no indication of how severe the season might become, a public health spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Jay Ajayi rushed for 134 yards and three touchdowns and Donte Deayon returned an interception for a score as the Broncos downed the Wildcats 38-30 in the Vizio Fiesta Bowl at Glendale, Ariz.
The “TriMet barber” has cut again, authorities say. Jared W. Walter, 27, of Milwaukie, Oregon, was booked into jail on charges of harassment and a parole violation after cutting a woman’s hair in the checkout line at a Dollar Tree store, Oregon City police Sgt. Matthew Paschall said Wednesday.
After a lengthy, often heated morning-long hearing, a judge decided Wednesday that a 29-year-old woman should face a jury on a charge that she struck and killed 63-year-old Michael Grubbs while he was pushing his granddaughter in a stroller along Rainbow Boulevard.
A panel of the Nevada Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a lower district court and ordered it to compel the state’s chief medical officer to examine and report on the nutritional adequacy of the diet of prison inmates as required by state law.
After a turbulent year marred by terror woes, Ebola outbreaks and a horrific series of airline disasters, many could be forgiven for saying good riddance to 2014 and gratefully ringing in a new year.
Edward Herrmann, an actor perhaps best known for playing Richard Gilmore on “Gilmore Girls,” has died, his manager confirmed to Buzzfeed News. He was 71.
Patients who were exposed to unsafe injection practices at some health care facilities in Southern Nevada can make a claim for negligence even though they have so far tested negative for hepatitis C or other illnesses, the Nevada Supreme Court said Wednesday.
A stampede killed at least 35 people and injured 43 during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Shanghai, on the city’s famed waterfront tourist strip known as the Bund, authorities said.
Burlington police say 51-year-old Kimberly Capdevila sent the smelly package to her neighbors, Steve Rowland and Mary Eipert, on Dec. 13.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Wednesday gave a victory to the city of Reno in its decision in May to lay off 32 firefighters after federal funding that supported their positions ran out.
LeBron James said his sore left knee has been bothering him since before Christmas, and the superstar disputed speculation that he is planning to leave the Cavaliers. James missed his second straight game Wednesday because of his knee. He also sat out Tuesday’s game in Atlanta on his 30th birthday.
UNLV opens Mountain West play against Wyoming tonight in Laramie. Tip is at 6:00 p.m.
Concealed weapons are part of everyday life in Idaho, and that’s unlikely to change in the Mountain West state despite a shocking accident in which a 2-year-old boy reached into his mother’s purse, grabbed her gun and shot her in the head inside a Wal-Mart.
Two people died on a wind-beaten Southern California coastal island and emergency crews rescued more than 100 drivers trapped in the snow-caked mountains outside Los Angeles as a fierce winter storm crept over the region Wednesday.
Stormy weather in the Adriatic Sea thwarted efforts Wednesday to tow a fire-ravaged ferry to Italy so authorities can investigate the blaze that killed at least 11 people and search the ferry for more possible dead.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev. on Wednesday hailed the shutdown of three of four coal-fired units at a plant near Moapa, saying Nevada’s energy future is in development of solar, wind and geothermal resources. The three units were shut down on Dec. 20.
TCU played like it had a point to make in a resounding 42-3 rout of Mississippi on Wednesday in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in the Georgia Dome.
The First Friday arts festival is scheduled from 5 to 11 p.m. Jan. 2 at venues throughout the 18b Arts District in downtown Las Vegas, near the intersection of Charleston Boulevard and Main Street. Organizers have canceled all outdoor activities due to the cold weather.
Sony Pictures Entertainment has reached agreements with top U.S. cable, satellite and telco TV providers to distribute “The Interview” via video-on-demand and pay-per-view services, and the studio said it will add about 250 independent theaters exhibiting the movie starting Friday.
Everybody needs a hero in their life. In the new book “Bass Reeves: Tales of the Talented Tenth” by Joel Christian Gill, your hero just might be a lawman.
Abbey Gaddett is far from the stereotypical sexy stewardess. The plucky protagonist of View reporter Jan Hogan’s debut novel “Coffee, Tea or … Murder?” may be small in stature, but she’s big on bravery as she faces off with hijacker Billy-boy Boyland the murderer.
More than a year ago, Culinary Union members stood outside the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and called visitors to the Strip resort names such as “scabs,” “beached whales,” and “losers.” What a difference 14 months can make.
Many cultures tie good fortune for the year to what you eat on New Year’s Day. In America, perhaps the most widespread culinary good-luck tradition is Hoppin’ John — black-eyed peas, rice and usually some form of pork — which originated in the South.
Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, who had a one-game suspension reduced to a $70,000 fine, reportedly said during the appeal hearing that his feet were numb from the cold for twice stepping on Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
MGM Resorts International will hold a seasonal job fair next week to hire more than 700 summer positions at the company’s 12 Strip resorts. Seasonal employees will support the properties’ swimming pools and related hotel operations.