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Details of Las Vegas’ New Year’s fireworks show revealed

For the first 8 minutes, 18 seconds of 2016, Las Vegas will be “On Top of the World,” as the New Year’s celebration theme goes, with eyes around the globe focused on a televised, $600,000 fireworks show launched from atop resorts along the Strip.

Truck crash on 215 Beltway leaves one man dead

A 43-year-old man died after crashing his pickup into an oncoming six-axle dump truck on the 215 Beltway, just north of the Ann Road exit Thursday morning, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.

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Metro officer wounded in south valley shooting, suspect arrested

A multiagency manhunt ended around dusk Thursday in the Southern Highlands housing community, where Metropolitan Police arrested a man accused of shooting an officer that morning at a south valley long-term motel.

Sheldon Adelson’s newspaper buy has Nevadans talking, and some fretting

As a Republican mega-donor who pours millions into campaigns and political action committees, Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson is already courted by elected officials. Add to that his new status as owner of Nevada’s largest newspaper.

Nevada legislators take first look at Faraday bills

State lawmakers Thursday dissected details of two bills that would give Faraday Future hundreds of millions of dollars in tax credits and abatements, and establish a workforce training program to prepare Nevadans to work at the electric car maker’s $1 billion assembly plant proposed for the Apex industrial site in Southern Nevada.

Group that includes rich and famous files suit over condo plans

A group of Queensridge homeowners with some well-known names has filed a lawsuit over plans to build thousands of condominiums and apartments where the neighboring Badlands Golf Club now sits.

Bellagio craps scammers plead guilty

A former Bellagio craps dealer and a man who placed phantom bets at the casino pleaded guilty Thursday in what prosecutors called a million-dollar swindle.

Mass of evidence in huge HOA scheme remains under wraps

A federal judge has refused to make public the mass of evidence in the long-running investigation into the scheme to take over and defraud homeowner associations.