Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora said on Monday that an individual who was fatally shot by an officer during an incident on Friday was an unarmed 37-year-old black man, the Denver Post newspaper reported.
An endangered 500-pound (230-kg) leatherback sea turtle was being treated at a South Carolina aquarium on Monday after wildlife officials made a rare rescue of the reptile found alive and stranded on a remote beach.
Edward Bennett, 45, was found unresponsive in his single cell at Ely State Prison on Saturday, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections. The prison’s medical staff couldn’t save him.
Nevada’s legislative Democrats unveiled an ambitious agenda of policy ideas today, but the chances of most of them getting through the Republican-controlled Legislature are slim.
An Amtrak passenger train derailed after crashing into a tractor trailer truck in North Carolina on Monday, sending some 40 passengers to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, state officials said.
A principal with the Nye County School District was arrested after a student said he touched her breast. Deputies with the Nye County Sheriff’s Office investigated Tonopah High School Principal Alvin L. Eiseman, 57. Two girls said the principal touched them inappropriately, according to police.
A man and woman accused in the killing of a Las Vegas cab driver were sentenced to prison Monday.
A judge revoked bail Monday for a man accused of killing two teenagers while he drove drunk for the second time in less than a year.
The Kraken Café wants the shatter the stereotype of the Las Vegas food truck. The name conveys restaurant food, and the chefs are trained at the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Las Vegas and Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Las Vegas. Instead of the traditional food-truck staple of hamburgers and hot dogs, customers find bison burgers, salmon croquette burgers and shrimp toast Benedict.
A man was killed in the desert northwest of Las Vegas early Monday in what police described as a target shooting accident.
Derrick Rose can’t jump, but the Chicago Bulls guard is strengthening his knee and hamstring after a third knee surgery in three years.
The director of the Nevada Transportation Department will lobby against a bill that would increase speed limits on the state’s rural highways.
A bill seeking to define independent contractors in Nevada ran into stiff opposition in a Senate committee hearing Monday with critics arguing it would prevent some minimum wage workers from recouping unpaid wages and help employers avoid taxes.
Los Angeles Clippers guard Dahntay Jones was fined $10,000 by the NBA on Monday.
Simon Property Group Inc., owner of three malls in Las Vegas, offered to buy Macerich Co. for $14.39 billion in a deal that would join the No. 1 and No. 3 U.S. shopping mall owners.
What makes Vegas suburb a top 20 spring break locale? For a wild time, party hard at chocolate factory and catch the buffet at Sunset Station.
Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh could begin regular exercise later this month and is expected to resume full basketball activities in September, doctors said Monday. Bosh was hospitalized for a week last month with blood clots on a lung and is out for the season as he undergoes blood-thinning treatment.
Nevada Sen. Harry Reid was interviewed by federal investigators a year ago as part of a corruption probe targeting New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, according to a report published Monday.
The Killers’ frontman Brandon Flowers has canceled a downtown concert hours before it was slated to start at the Bunkhouse Saloon.
An undisclosed number of former Caesars Entertainment Corp. employees have lost their retirement income because of the casino company’s bankruptcy restructuring of its largest operating division.
A real estate investment trust spun off from Penn National Gaming on Monday offered to buy the real estate owned by rival regional operator Pinnacle Entertainment of Las Vegas for $4.1 billion.
Democratic leaders in the Nevada Legislature announced their plans and priorities for the 2015 session Monday, claiming Republicans are pushing an agenda for special interests over the middle class.
Metro detectives investigating extortion allegations leveled at conservative GOP activist Tony Dane continued on Monday to probe outside Nevada for information.
Moments after being blasted into the air “like a rocket” in the Boston Marathon bombing, nurse Jessica Kensky saw that her husband’s leg had been blown off and leaped into action, struggling to put a tourniquet on him, she testified on Monday.
On the morning after the 18th Gearhead Christmas, aka the NASCAR Kobalt 400, Las Vegas Motor Speedway seemed a bit forlorn. The massive grandstands were clean and eerily quiet — at least until they fired the engines of the Richard Petty Driving Experience stockers.
A bill heard in a Senate committee today would make it much harder to bring a class-action lawsuit for failure to pay constitutionally mandated minimum wages in Nevada.
An Alabama woman accused of killing her 9-year-old granddaughter by forcing her to run back and forward in a yard carrying wood for almost three hours acted like a military drill instructor, a prosecutor said at her trial on Monday.
Three teenagers thought they were stealing cocaine but actually took a man’s cremated remains. Devin Gessell, 17, and a 15- and 16-year-old are accused of breaking into a St. Peters, Missouri, home in November.