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Review-Journal videographer wins Eppy award for best sports video

Las Vegas Review-Journal videographer Heidi Fang earned an Editor & Publisher award for her video about Wimp 2 Warrior, a 22-week mixed-martial arts camp for everyday people. She won the contest’s Best Sports Video category.

Lack of laws helps body brokers to profit from selling the dead

The company stacked brochures in funeral parlors around Sin City. On the cover: a couple clasping hands. Above the image, a promise: “Providing Options in Your Time of Need.”

TSA quietly tested new screening process in Las Vegas

Travelers passing through McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas during the long Memorial Day weekend might notice some changes to security screening. Or maybe not, since the pilot program was quietly enacted there more than a year ago.

DREAMer from valley will deliver Democrats’ Spanish-language response to Trump’s address to Congress

Calling hometown DREAMer Astrid Silva someone who “embodies the exact principles on which our country was founded,” Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced that Silva would deliver the Democrats’ Spanish-language response to President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress next week.

Prosecutors seek to restrict defense at upcoming Bundy trial in Las Vegas

Anticipating a battle in the upcoming trial against six associates of rancher Cliven Bundy, federal prosecutors this week asked a judge to prohibit defense attorneys from referencing a wide range of material that is central to defense strategy in the case.