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THE STRIP GOES PURPLE FOR SPIRIT DAY

October 20, 2012 - 9:29 am

The “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign and Las Vegas Strip marquees went purple for “Spirit Day” on Friday. Marquees along the Strip and the Caesars Palace fountain went purple to stand up against bullying and rally support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth. Pictured: Oscar B. Goodman (Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority), Miss Nevada 2012 Randi Sundquist and actors from Cirque du Soleil. (Photos courtesy of Glenn Pinkerton/Las Vegas News Bureau)

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford addresses the media during a press conference at the Grant S ...

Nevada AG joins group suing DOJ to stop immigration requirements on victim funds

By Claudia Lauer and Mike Catalini The Associated Press

August 18, 2025 - 5:28 pm

The lawsuit seeks to stop the U.S. Department of Justice from withholding federal funds from crime victims if states don’t cooperate with the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.

People enter City of Henderson Justice Facility building where Henderson Municipal and Clark Co ...

Feds say they did not intervene in Israeli official’s child sex case

By Ricardo Torres-Cortez / RJ

August 18, 2025 - 5:47 pm

The U.S. government said that it didn’t intervene in the case of an Israeli government official arrested in an operation targeting alleged child sex predators in the Las Vegas Valley.

In an April 10, 2018, file photo, a high school principal displays vaping devices that were con ...

Vaping on the rise among Nevada middle schoolers

By Spencer Levering / RJ

August 18, 2025 - 1:13 pm

Officials said nearly one in three high school students and about one in six middle school students in Clark County reported having tried e-cigarettes.

Housing construction in the Cadence master planned community in Henderson is seen Thursday, Jul ...

Nevada housing ‘dodged a bullet’ with two bills, stakeholders say

By Patrick Blennerhassett / RJ

August 18, 2025 - 12:16 pm

The Las Vegas Valley’s long history with construction defect reform ligitation, which started in the 1990s, is still being debated today at the state level.

Conservative network Newsmax will pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims

By Nicholas Riccardi Associated Press

August 18, 2025 - 11:34 am

The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, according to documents filed Monday.

Marcos Guerra, a USPS employee, sorts packages at a distribution center in Henderson in this Re ...

Don’t scan QR codes on unsolicited packages delivered to your house, FBI warns

Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post

August 18, 2025 - 10:04 am

The FBI is warning people of a new scam involving fake packages with QR codes designed to steal data.

President Donald Trump meet with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at ...

Zelenskyy, Trump express hope for trilateral talks with Putin to bring end to Russia-Ukraine war

By Josh Boak and Samya Kullab The Associated Press

August 18, 2025 - 1:21 pm

Monday’s hastily assembled meeting comes after the president met on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

2 officers killed, 3rd is wounded in Utah shooting, authorities say

By Kathy McCormack The Associated Press

August 18, 2025 - 7:56 am

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox called what happened “a terrible and tragic night.” He posted online that he joined the state in mourning the loss “of these courageous law enforcement officers.”

The scene of a pedestrian’s death Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, near North Lamb Boulevard and Ste ...

Las Vegas ranked as one of the most dangerous cities for pedestrians

By Mick Akers / RJ

August 18, 2025 - 6:00 am

Las Vegas was rated as the third most dangerous city in the U.S. for pedestrians in a study released last week by shoe company Kuru.

Jhone Ebert, superintendent of the Clark County School District, during a Clark County School B ...

Board set to vote on proposed contract for CCSD teachers. Here’s what the agreement entails

By Spencer Levering / RJ

August 18, 2025 - 12:09 pm

Superintendent Jhone Ebert announced the tentative negotiated agreement between the school district and the Clark County Education Association on Aug. 9.