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Officials say Flight 142 was taxiing for a 1:30 p.m. departure Monday at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport when the pilot reported smelling smoke in the cabin, causing an evacuation.
I admit spending more than $250 for breakfast at the Beverly Hills Hotel that included a caviar and sour cream omelet, or $1,600 split four ways for a steak dinner in Washington, D.C. But in Las Vegas, another expensive restaurant town, my taste for scotch and good food has left me with some pretty hefty credit card bills.
A pedestrian was in critical condition after being hit by a car Monday afternoon, Las Vegas police say. The collision happened just after 4 p.m. near Desert Inn Road and Maryland Parkway. The pedestrian was suffering critical injuries and was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, police reported.
The North Las Vegas Fire Department battled a fire at a recycling yard that sent up plumes of smoke visible from throughout the valley on Monday.
The Las Vegas Centennial Commission, faced with more than 100 advocates in favor of saving the Huntridge Theater, voted unanimously Monday to approve a $1 million grant to buy the land underneath the historic theater.
Not only is billionaire Bill Gates sending Erika Carrera to the college of her choice, but President Barack Obama will bid her good luck in a White House ceremony this summer, placing the medallion of U.S. Presidential Scholar around her neck.
What happens when you invite Vice President Joe Biden to your prom? Chances are he won’t show. But he doesn’t ignore it, either.
In the competitive Nevada attorney general’s race, Democrat Ross Miller has raised more than $1.25 million so far compared to $543,000 raised by Republican Adam Laxalt, their campaigns said Monday.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — Mohave County Supervisor Joy Brotherton died at her home in Kingman Monday. A spokeswoman for the family, Barbara Ricca, said Brotherton, 75, died of a “serious, undisclosed illness.”
The NBA has charged Donald Sterling with damaging its reputation and teams with racist remarks and has set a vote that could determine his future as Los Angeles Clippers owner.
A pair of Clark County women deserve at least $60 million after developing bladder cancer from taking the diabetes drug Actos, one of their attorneys told a jury Monday. The lawyers for Delores Cipriano, 81, and Bertha Triana, 80, have said they plan to seek billions of dollars more in punitive damages from the Japan-based drug maker Takeda as the case wraps up this week.
Arizona authorities believe the sheriff’s deputy who recently killed himself may have been shaking down immigrants after discovering hundreds of hours of recorded traffic stops, driver’s licenses, passports and other documents in the man’s home during a drug investigation.
The man charged in a fatal shooting at the Palms this past week said the gun fired accidentally, according to Las Vegas police.
The fire that broke out Saturday night above the foothills in southwest Reno had burned more than a square mile of timber, grass and mountain brush by Monday morning.
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The Board of School Trustees decided on an Illinois-based search firm to recommend candidates for the office.
Senior U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks died after he was hit by a vehicle near the district courthouse in downtown Reno, the Reno Police Department said. He was 80.
Police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, cast Donald Trump as a threat to democracy and threw their support behind Joe Biden during an event in Las Vegas.
A fire that has been burning through Red Rock Canyon has been fully contained, according to the Bureau of Land Management.