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Plaintiff alleges ‘improper and unlawful maneuvering’ by Las Vegas Sands

Former Sands China executive Steven Jacobs claims Las Vegas Sands Corp. is trying to “derail” his rights “through improper and unlawful maneuvering,” which includes the company’s most recent attempt to remove the judge assigned to his wrongful termination case.

Six indicted in timeshare scam

A Las Vegas area man charged in major telemarketing and tax fraud schemes was indicted again this week in an alleged scam involving timeshare properties and at least 15 victims, according to the Nevada attorney general’s office.

NSHE considers merging services among colleges, universities

The state’s higher education board on Friday pushed a series of proposals to merge services at Nevada’s colleges and universities, putting the agency at odds with lawmakers who want to split the system instead.

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Man in critical condition after collision on U.S. 95

A man was hospitalized in critical condition Friday evening after his car crashed into another on the southbound off-ramp of U.S. Highway 95 to Jones Boulevard.

Nevada attracts just three candidates for state’s top education job

Nevada — despite earning national attention for a dizzying list of education reforms that Gov. Brian Sandoval enacted last year— attracted only three candidates to fill a job that oversees public schools across the Silver State.

7-year-old daughter walked into aftermath of father’s fatal shooting

After a man was gunned down in a northeast valley apartment complex Thursday night, his 7-year-old daughter walked out of her mother’s apartment, saw his bloody body and called for help, a neighbor said Friday.

UNLV professor plays role in U.S. oil exports

The U.S. economy experienced a landmark moment this month when the nation began exporting crude oil for the first time in four decades.

 
5 dead, 2 hurt in shooting at Canadian school

Five people were killed and two critically injured in a school shooting in a remote part of Saskatchewan on Friday and a suspect was in custody, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.

2 more waves of Nevada Guard soldiers to deploy overseas

Just two weeks after 250 soldiers from a Nevada Army National Guard supply brigade mobilized to support combat operations in the Middle East, two more waves of citizen-soldiers from a Nevada signal battalion are training for deployments to Kuwait and the Horn of Africa, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned.

Prosecutors drop murder charges in baby death

Prosecutors have dropped murder charges against a man who was originally linked to the death of his girlfriend’s 4-month-old daughter.