For the upcoming season, Las Vegas theatergoers are in for some treats, including Stephen Sondheim’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” at Nevada Conservatory and “Sweeney Todd” at Green Valley Ranch Resort. Insurgo Theater will inhabit a new space at the Plaza (its premiere production is Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”). And Las Vegas Academy tackles the musicals “Guys and Dolls” and “Big River” as well as Thornton Wilder’s revered “Our Town.” And that’s not all.
The director of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health says there is a great need for physical therapy and occupational therapy services for people with brain conditions, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and multiple sclerosis. The physical therapy branch of the center near downtown has been open since early August and soon will need an office in another part of the Las Vegas Valley.
The Plaza hotel-casino, which has gone through ups and more recently downs over the past four decades, formally reopens for business Thursday after its owners spent nearly a year and $35 million on renovations.
A man who robbed at gunpoint a casino cashier at The Orleans of $40,000 and stole two vehicles last year has agreed to plead guilty as a habitual offender.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney plans Tuesday to use a North Las Vegas trucking company as a backdrop to announce his plans to boost job and economic growth in the nation. Romney’s rollout will come before President Barack Obama lays out his own plan next week to deal with persistent unemployment as the struggling economy threatens his chances of re-election in 2012.
A German man is facing a drug charge after authorities accused him of trying to board a plane with more than a kilogram of cocaine in his digestive system. According to court records, an X-ray revealed Christopher Adiegwu had numerous 1-inch pellets in his upper digestive system after he was stopped on Aug. 17 at McCarran International Airport.
A federal Bureau of Land Management official says firefighters are battling a remote wildfire in a rugged 12.5-square-mile area 20 miles south of Caliente in Lincoln County.
RENO — A federal judge in Nevada is taking the U.S. government to task for misconduct by a helicopter contractor during one of the biggest wild horse roundups in the West, granting a rare emergency order sought by wild horse protection advocates who argue all of the gathers on public lands are inhumane and illegal.
The Nevada Commission on Judicial Selection on Wednesday submitted three names to Gov. Brian Sandoval who will appoint one to the 8th District judgeship vacated by Judge Jackie Glass.
