Nearly a million and a half travelers were overcharged an estimated $14.8 million last year by cab drivers and cab companies, a legislative audit of the state Taxicab Authority found.
The Challenge Ropes Course, unveiled Monday at the Clark County Department of Juvenile Justice Services facility, will replace a course that was removed about 15 years ago to make room for an expansion of the adjacent court facilities, according to county officials. Children’s Service Guild and the Family Court helped fund the new course.
BOSTON — The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon appear to have been motivated by their religious faith but do not seem connected to any Muslim terrorist groups, U.S. officials said Monday after interrogating the severely wounded younger man. He was charged with federal crimes that could bring the death penalty.
Richie Havens, the New York City folk singer thrust by circumstance onto center stage as the opening act of Woodstock, the legendary 1969 music festival, has died. He was 72.
CHICAGO — Don’t take the cinnamon challenge. That’s the advice from doctors in a new report about a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube videos but which has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers.
BOSTON — Survivors, residents and state officials were among the thousands gathered in silence across the Boston area Monday afternoon, one week after deadly explosions erupted near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
Two couples who were clients of Las Vegas bankruptcy attorney Randolph Goldberg asked U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro to reject the plea agreement Goldberg struck with federal prosecutors.
Nevada has been touted by the solar industry as enjoying on average more than 300 days of year of sunlight.
Done right, no problem. But do them wrong, and functional movements — squats and dead lifts, for example — can be the reasons for injury.
Allegations of misconduct used by Wynn Resorts Ltd. to oust a Japanese billionaire as a majority shareholder were based on a “deeply flawed” investigation that selectively used information to build a biased case, former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff said in 45-page report released Monday.
As Edward Marshall lay dying in a Las Vegas hospice, the former prosecutor asked for a judge to release him from custody. It wasn’t the first time.
Rashad Muhammad, a 6-foot-5-inch senior shooting guard from Bishop Gorman High School, orally committed to San Jose State, which is joining the Mountain West next season. Muhammad also considered offers from Utah State and Wyoming.
The pounding on a chisel to remove bone spurs, the hammering of pins to secure bone, the high-pitched whine of a drill and electric saw alternately cutting away and boring into the knee joint: The sounds of the operating room, which moments ago were beeping monitors as Dr. Michael Crovetti sliced open Earl Kimberly’s right knee with a scalpel, have become those of a woodshop.
Soon after the Boston Marathon bombings, well before the funerals were arranged, the amputations completed and medications for post-traumatic stress disorder dispensed, the questions began.
You want customer service? Check this out. A major Strip venue is refunding people’s airplane tickets to Vegas due to postponed shows. On Friday, the upcoming Light nightclub at Mandalay Bay announced it will not open as scheduled this week. Instead, the club will open Memorial Day weekend.
The Clark County Commission no longer has any business running University Medical Center. The region’s only public hospital loses nearly $2 million every week. Everyone who has looked at the accounting in recent years agrees that annual taxpayer bailouts approaching $100 million won’t last forever.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Las Vegas 51s led in the ninth inning before Tyler Colvin’s two-run single for the Sky Sox gave Colorado Springs the 8-7 win.
The UNLV women’s tennis team beat Air Force 4-3 on Sunday in a neutral-site Mountain West match at Fort Collins, Colo.
UNLV baseball coach Tim Chambers can’t answer why his team doesn’t get frazzled when it falls behind.
Most guys can tell a regretful story about the one that got away, and it’s usually a personal tale about a girl. The biggest regret of Peyton Manning’s professional career has to be a double-overtime game that got away in January.
RENO — Tiny pieces of California Gold Rush history fetched big bucks at a Reno auction of Western Americana.
I remember reading somewhere that the difference between being young and being old is that young people choose a breakfast cereal for the toy, and old people choose it for the fiber content.
