A meeting between the staff of the state medical board and executives with the pharmaceutical company that makes the pain management drug OxyContin has produced the names of 29 Nevada licensed professionals in the firm’s Abuse & Diversion Detection program.
Clark County District Attorney Steven Wolfson took some serious heat from a few black residents at a Wednesday night forum commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
When the first officer arrived at the scene of a domestic violence call that would spark a 24-hour standoff with SWAT in the southeast valley late Monday night, he was met by a 10-year-old girl carrying a pistol and a shotgun-wielding man asking for help.
A 51-year-old man was indicted Wednesday in connection with the theft of $147,000 in diamonds and other items from a Las Vegas jewelry store.
A 13-year-old student was sexually assaulted at knife point after being taken from Woodbury Middle School early Wednesday morning, according to Las Vegas police.
Las Vegas police have arrested a second suspect accused of robbery while posing as a Mormon missionary.
A local middle school teacher and basketball coach was arrested and charged with misdemeanor lewdness charges alleging he inappropriately touched female students, authorities said.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared unequivocally that the United States has “concluded” that the Syrian government carried out a deadly chemical weapons attack on civilians. But new hurdles emerged that appeared to slow the formation of an international coalition that could use military force to punish Syria.
A military jury sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death on Wednesday for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, giving the Army psychiatrist what he believed would be a path to martyrdom in the attack on unarmed fellow soldiers. The American-born Muslim, who has said he acted to protect Islamic insurgents abroad from American aggression, never denied being the gunman.
A theft victim took matters into her own hands recently to get her bike back from a thief who tried to sell it on Craigslist.
A two-vehicle crash injured one person and shut down a section of Bonanza Road next to Interstate 15.
The grandiose Las Vegas mansion once owned by Liberace has been sold for $500,000, according to real estate brokerage Redfin.
The man charged with killing a California highway patrolman and another man after a carjacking on the Strip had a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit, prosecutors said.
The District Attorney’s office will drop misdemeanor graffiti charges against five people who chalked up city sidewalks while protesting police misconduct.
Taking stock of progress both made and still to come, Americans of all backgrounds and colors massed on the National Mall on Wednesday to hear President Barack Obama and civil rights pioneers commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech on the same spot where he gave unforgettable voice to the struggle for racial equality 50 years earlier.
Decades in the making, residents now have another option to cross the Colorado River between Laughlin and Bullhead City, Arizona.
A political action committee says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ineligible to appear on the November ballot unless he resubmits his petition to comply with Nevada law.
The temporary Flamingo Road bridge over Koval Lane will be reduced for this year’s Formula One race to lessen impacts on area businesses, officials said.
Vegas Stronger CEO Dave Marlon said the most effective members of the organization’s street team have personal experience with homelessness, substance abuse and mental illness.
