As Akai Gurley bled to death in a New York stairwell, the police officer who fired the fatal bullet was upstairs arguing with his partner about whether to call in the incident, prosecutors said at the start of the officer’s trial on Monday.
President Barack Obama said Monday he was moving to ban solitary confinement for juveniles and low-level offenders in federal prisons, a change long sought by advocates of prison reform who argue the punishment exacts a lasting mental toll.
Cuba’s tourism industry is under unprecedented strain and struggling to meet demand with record numbers of visitors arriving a year after detente with the United States renewed interest in the Caribbean island.
Maitland Williams scored 14 points in his first varsity game Monday to help Sierra Vista’s boys basketball team hold off visiting Western, 55-49.
Destiny Gonzalez scored 25 points, and Western’s girls basketball team survived a scoreless third-quarter to hold off host Sierra Vista, 48-43 on Monday.
Residents of New Jersey’s southern shorefront towns on Monday cleaned up homes and businesses flooded by a storm surge during the weekend’s massive blizzard and rued what they described as Governor Chris Christie’s dismissive treatment of the damage.
Sabrina Saldate threw six touchdown passes Monday to help Las Vegas High’s flag football team to a 47-12 win over visiting Silverado.
If there’s anything both sides of America’s heated and polarizing gun debate may agree on, it’s the need to keep firearms out of the hands of people with serious mental illness.
A man was arrested early Monday after a deadly stabbing in North Las Vegas, police said.
A rollover crash in the northeast valley killed one person Monday night, Las Vegas police said.
With the Iowa caucuses less than a week away, here’s a newsflash: The corn ethanol mandates, always a pivotal issue in that state, are more deadly than the emissions from those cheating Volkswagens. Four times more deadly, to be precise.
Las Vegas Mayor Pro Tem Steve Ross has proposed a city government program to finance residential solar panel installation over a period of 20 years (“Ross floats plan for solar panel financing,” Wednesday Review-Journal).
During his final State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared that “the United States of America, right now, has the strongest, most durable economy in the world.”
Traffic is flowing normally after a crash on northbound Interstate 15 near the Charleston Boulevard exit caused delays in the area for hours during Monday evening rush hour.
With Iowa kicking off the 2016 election season in one week, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton tried to erase doubts about her judgment raised by rival Bernie Sanders on Monday while digging deep into her years of governing experience.
The first Red Flag exercises of 2016 are under way at Nellis Air Force Base, drawing air crews from all over the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Bad doctors make big headlines, and deserve them, but you almost never read about the good ones. There are many in our community.
An institutional investor in Allegiant Travel Co. is continuing his fight to oust an independent board member he believes is too close to the company’s executives and has sent a letter to the company’s board.
A new hospital model is coming to the Las Vegas Valley. Dignity Health, which runs three St. Rose Dominican campuses in Henderson and southwest Las Vegas, plans four smaller neighborhood hospitals across the Las Vegas Valley in the next two years.
Valley High teacher Jillian Lafave was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of having sex with a student, court records show.
Four-month-old Devonta Lewis Jr. was under his father’s care when he suffered head and rib fractures that Las Vegas police say led to his December death.
An armed man arrested after an officer-involved shooting near tourists on the Strip Friday night has been identified, Metro announced Monday.
Las Vegas police hope a streamlined process for handling tows will make the unpleasant more palatable for civilians and officers alike.
Job applicants hoping to land one of more than 700 seasonal jobs being offered by MGM Resorts International no longer have to participate in a “cattle call-like” interview process.
Southern Nevada flag football coaches poll, as compiled by Cimarron-Memorial coach Mark Bailey.
Silverado’s boys basketball team was forced to forfeit its win over Liberty on Friday.
Lawyers for a group supporting Gov. Brian Sandoval’s commerce tax filed an appeal Monday in the Nevada Supreme Court seeking to halt efforts to repeal it.
Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison was headed to India on Monday to open a new office promoting Nevada travel and tourism.
After years of fantasizing about it, months planning it and 14 days shooting it — a production record for “The Hillywood Show” — Hannah and Hilly Hindi posted their “Supernatural” parody video and watched to see how fans would receive it.
After nearly three decades of acting in film and television, David Duchovny finally landed his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Jan. 25, the day after his most iconic character — conspiracy maven Fox Mulder — returns to TV in the first half of a two-night launch for Fox’s limited series revival of “The X-Files.”
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