A national report card on patient safety gave a failing grade to University Medical Center, long regarded as having one of the country’s top trauma units. It was one of only 22 hospitals nationwide to receive such low marks.
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A woman accused in a road-rage shooting on the Strip in December was sentenced Monday to eight to 20 years in prison, according to District Court records.
Horses4Heroes transitioned from a temporary home at Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs to a permanent home, courtesy of the Las Vegas City Council’s unanimous vote April 16.
A Nye County sheriff’s detective has been placed on administrative leave after an investigation was opened into last week’s arrest of one of his superiors and a longtime sheriff’s volunteer accused of removing political signs from private property.
Sen. Harry Reid has announced more than $2.5 million in federal highway grants for projects in Nevada intended to improve safety on roads and interstates.
The Metropolitan Police Department’s team that investigates officer involved shootings now will investigate inmate deaths.
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — Authorities at Grand Canyon National Park say a person has died after apparently falling off the South Rim.
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities are investigating threats against Sen. Harry Reid, U.S. Capitol Police confirmed Monday, following the standoff over Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s “trespass cattle.”
An audit of the state Division of Tourism reviewed by state lawmakers on Monday found two cases where contractors were not selected through a formal competitive process as required by state law.
Fire extinguishers were nowhere to be found Monday during an apartment fire at 5801 Lake Mead Boulevard, near Jones Boulevard.
A Metro police officer was hospitalized with what the police department described as non-life threatening injuries after a collision near downtown Las Vegas Monday afternoon.
Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada will open its summer day shelter for men on Thursday at a new location that can accommodate 130 men at one time.
The Clark County Fire Department is employing new training techniques for its firefighters complete with on-scene controlled residential flames.
A North Las Vegas man accused of butchering his mother and sister, mutilating one of the bodies with a chainsaw and then living in a home with the decomposing bodies was indicted by a grand jury on murder charges, court records show.
The good news is that Latinos graduate from college at the same rate as whites in Nevada. The bad news is that those numbers are still below the national average. Excelencia in Education found that 39 percent of Silver State Latino students and white students graduate from college in four years, compared to 41 percent and 50 percent nationally.
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