Cassandra Lee Cassidy, 24, of Las Vegas, was gunned down in the 1300 block of Westwind Avenue, near Jones Road and Charleston Boulevard on the night of April 17 by people shooting from a white two-door car, police had said.
While details have been light, the consensus is that fishing was good this past week at Lake Mead. This time of year anglers can find success working the openings of coves for stripers looking for shad.
Las Vegas restaurateur Fred Glusman is known for his celebrity-magnet Piero’s Italian Cuisine at 355 Convention Center Drive. For three decades, it has been the neon hub for the city’s elite and their famous guests.
A federal judge on Wednesday refused to enforce a subpoena sought by prosecutors for records of a sealed state fraud case against a former Las Vegas church treasurer charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his congregation.
Las Vegas sees the much anticipated fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao with billion-dollar eyes. But the fighters see it as history.
By all accounts, March was a terrific month for tourism in Las Vegas. In fact, it was the second-best March ever. Yet visitation was down 1.7 percent to 3.6 million people last month.
With “Avengers: Age of Ultron” opening, it’s worth looking back to see what Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Nick Fury have been up to since the last time they assembled.
A local nonprofit has won a federal contract to boost immunizations. The HealthInsight Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization was chosen by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reduce immunization disparities and improve vaccination rates.
Nevada and 38 other states elect judges.
Jean Nidetch, a compulsive eater who founded Weight Watchers, died on Wednesday at her home in Boca Raton, Fla., according to a Weight Watchers spokeswoman. She was 91.
Those underage who call for emergency medical help if they or a friend are intoxicated and need assistance would be exempt from prosecution on alcohol charges under a bill heard by an Assembly committee Wednesday.
Indie rock quartet OK Go played at the Brooklyn Bowl Tuesday night, putting on a spectacular show involving optical illusions and confetti.
The National Mediation Board is sorting out a tie vote in a union representation election involving Allegiant Air’s small dispatchers work group.
Supporters of a bill allowing Nevada college campuses to ban tobacco received blow-back Wednesday from Republicans on an Assembly panel who suggested the move is hypocritical when tobacco taxes help fund higher education.
The golden arches don’t offer the most nutritious meals on the market. But credit McDonald’s for understanding one thing: kids love toys with their meals.
If the Cleveland Browns want the No. 2 overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft on Thursday, hoping to land Marcus Mariota, a two-for-one won’t get it done.
Putting together any fight isn’t easy. But getting Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao to agree to finally face each other in the ring was an adventure that involved delicate negotiations, smoothing over egos and compromise.
New York Times columnist David Brooks has a message for some American parents — you’re doing it wrong.
LSU offensive lineman La’el Collins is voluntarily leaving Chicago and the NFL Draft to return to Louisiana to meet with police about the shooting death of a pregnant woman.
Jurors in the trial of a former deli worker accused of kidnapping and murdering 6-year-old Etan Patz in New York in 1979 said on Wednesday they could not reach a verdict, but a judge ordered them to keep trying.
Tensions on the Supreme Court over America’s use of the death penalty boiled over on Wednesday as the justices appeared badly split in a case challenging Oklahoma’s lethal injection method as a breach of the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
A 4-month-old baby was rescued from a destroyed building in the town of Bhaktapur at least 22 hours after the earthquake struck Nepal, the newspaper Kathmandu Today reported.
Authorities said a student brought a gun to a St. Louis school and handed it to security guard so he could go to class and take a test.
Summerlin resident Darren Sher has moved his recording business, The Omnitone Recording Studios, from the northwest valley closer to the Strip. The move came just as he partnered with Los Angeles-based Stampede Music Publishing, whose artists include rapper Snoop Lion (formerly known as Snoop Dogg).
In America, it pays to be rich. The wealthiest people in the country can buy pretty much whatever they want, but some choose not to. Instead, they opt to rent items members of the middle class have a hard time affording.
A dog and a “large” bird died in an apartment fire near downtown Las Vegas on Wednesday, according to the city fire department.
UNLV announced that it’s switching its final two home baseball games to the afternoon because of lighting repairs at Earl E. Wilson Stadium.
Six-year-olds whose mothers were severely obese before pregnancy are more likely to have developmental or emotional problems than kids of healthy-weight moms, according to a new study.
Two separate crashes on U.S. Highway 95 near Auto Show Drive in Henderson made for slow going during the Wednesday morning commute.
Scientists in China on Wednesday described one of the weirdest flying creatures ever discovered, a pigeon-size dinosaur with wings like a bat that lived not long before the first birds.