Las Vegas student Astrid Silva perched in the gallery of the U.S. Senate on Thursday, looking down at the surreal scene of Sen. Harry Reid telling a packed chamber of senators and witnesses her life story.
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The headaches surrounding the reopening of F Street are about to begin.
Construction of the $13.6 million project began weeks ago, but phase two and three are about to start. Those phases will require lane closures up above on Interstate 15 for the building of overpasses.
Gay marriage proponents marked another victory Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals from Nevada and Arizona involving the rights of same-sex couples.
Following seven hours of closing arguments, the jury late Thursday received the hepatitis C outbreak case against Dr. Dipak Desai and nurse anesthetist Ronald Lakeman.
Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky awarded a three-year contract by School Board
Delta Academy, a Las Vegas charter school for students with behavioral, emotional and social challenges, will remain open for at least six more years despite posting poor student performance.
It’s going to be hot today. And tomorrow. And the next day and the next. Not just hot. Like, extremely hot. No. XX-TREEMELY HAWT, so hot you need to make up a new spelling to get your message across.
WASHINGTON — With a solemnity reserved for momentous occasions, the Senate passed historic legislation Thursday offering the priceless hope of citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in America’s shadows. The bill also promises a military-style effort to secure the long-porous border with Mexico.
A long-awaited bill introduced in the U.S. Senate on Thursday charts a new path to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste, but to the chagrin of many Nevada leaders, it does not seal off the old path to Yucca Mountain.
SANFORD, Fla. — George Zimmerman’s defense attorney insisted during several testy exchanges with an important prosecution witness Thursday that Trayvon Martin injected race into a confrontation with the neighborhood watch volunteer and insinuated the young woman was not believable because of inconsistencies in her story.
DENVER — An appeals court said Thursday that Hobby Lobby and a sister company that sells Christian books and supplies can fight the nation’s new health care law on religious grounds, ruling the portion of the law that requires them to offer certain kinds of birth control to their employees is particularly onerous, and suggesting the companies shouldn’t have to pay millions of dollars in fines while their claims are considered.
A child abuse case that stemmed from the accidental shooting of a 5-year-old boy was dismissed Thursday by a Henderson judge who said the charge “does not fit the facts” in the case.
Take a tired business district. Add a wealthy young entrepreneur. Re-imagine the heart of the city. Call it downtown Las Vegas. Coming Sunday in the Las Vegas Review-Journal and at reviewjournal.com is a special section of stories with videos and photos regarding the redevelopment of downtown Las Vegas.
Findlay RV Service Manager Kurt Milana decided in March 2010 that it was time for a change of scenery.
BYRON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The FBI says a Michigan man who recognized his mom in surveillance photos of a bank robbery called police to turn her in.
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Residents throughout the Las Vegas Valley were reacting to the news that Donald Trump had become the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes.
Imprisoned for a Las Vegas fatal DUI, former NFL player Henry Ruggs is in a prison work program that placed him at the Governor’s Mansion.
Trump is expected to appeal the verdict and will face an awkward dynamic as he returns to the campaign trail tagged with convictions.
Las Vegas’ budget has already taken a hit from one of the cases won by developer Yohan Lowie, whose stymied housing plans for a shuttered golf course led to extensive litigation.
