In Egypt’s bloodiest day since the Arab Spring began, riot police Wednesday smashed two protest camps of supporters of the deposed Islamist president, touching off street violence that officials said killed nearly 300 people and forced the military-backed interim leaders to impose a state of emergency and curfew.
Four people could face up to a year in jail for chalking up city sidewalks while protesting police misconduct.
North Las Vegas City Manager Tim Hacker and City Attorney Jeffrey Barr both resigned Wednesday, but newly elected Mayor John Lee called the departures amicable.
Ancient rock etchings along a dried-up lake bed in Nevada have been confirmed to be the oldest recorded petroglyphs in North America, dating back at least 10,000 years.
Las Vegas Police say that the man shot by an off-duty detective on the Strip Sunday night was attempting to steal the officer’s personal vehicle.
The federal government has treated Nevada like its “colony” since statehood by continuing to exert management control over more than 80 percent of the state’s 110,540 square miles, says a leader of a Nevada conservative think tank.
A pilot managed to escape unscathed after his plane went down near Mount Charleston Wednesday night.
Wednesday marked a come-behind victory for 325 Clark County School District seniors. Out of thousands more seniors who were short on their graduation requirements this spring and couldn’t walk the stage for their diplomas, this small percentage kept at it, making one last-ditch effort this summer and succeeding.
The Green Zone website got off the ground Wednesday with a promise to carry on the safe-haven tradition for Nevada’s 300,000 veterans by providing a cyberspace place for them to find jobs by connecting with employers and tap education and health care benefits.
A 52-year-old man shot and killed by Las Vegas police had been on a 10-day drinking binge before his fatal encounter, a detective testified Wednesday.
