Las Vegas police are looking for a man who they say robbed several downtown businesses. The man, described by police as 25 to 30 years old, about 6 feet tall and around 300 pounds, pulled out a knife and demanded money from a store employee on May 20, police said.
Bo Bernhard, executive director of the International Gaming Institute and professor of sociology and hotel management at UNLV, recently gave a TED Talk saying Las Vegas is a smart city. He’s not talking about book smarts but “social intelligence.”
The mother of the 11-year-0ld boy who shot in the head on Monday faces an attempted murder charge, according to Las Vegas police.
Las Vegas Township Constable John Bonaventura’s office will cease to exist on Jan. 4, 2015, but Clark County in the past couple of months has installed in the office 14 new computers valued at $11,186 in all.
A delegation from Nevada is headed to Singapore later this week to officially launch a new water-related economic development initiative on the world stage. The nonprofit, public-private Nevada Center of Excellence was created more than a year ago, but it has developed more slowly than expected. A week-long international water conference in Singapore, June 1-5, will serve as its coming out party.
A member services representative filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday in Las Vegas that accuses Navy Federal Credit Union of failing to compensate him and other employees for “off-the-clock work.”
Metro’s search and rescue team conducted four missions during Memorial Day weekend, police say.
Clark County District Judge Susan Johnson filed a complaint Tuesday with the secretary of state’s office, alleging that an opponent in the Department 22 judicial race has accepted a campaign contribution in excess of the limits allowed under Nevada law.
Traffic engineers are hoping the addition of two traffic signals near the Wet ‘n’ Wild water park this summer will make some of the waits in traffic lines shorter than the lines to get on the best attractions in the park.
Tropicana Avenue was shut down near the Strip after a motorcycle crash Tuesday afternoon, Las Vegas police say.
