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GOLDEN RAINBOW EVENT RAISES $152,000
Washoe County has paid $75,000 to settle a civil case involving a college student who claimed a sheriff’s deputy “manhandled” her and used excessive force during an arrest at Lake Tahoe.
“Who killed Chrissy?” is the question Beverly Simcic explores in her book about a friend’s mysterious death in Las Vegas more than 30 years ago.
The Nevada Department of Transportation is about to make a $600 million bet on Project Neon, the reconstruction of the busiest and most congested road in the state.
TUESDAY
Cirque du Soleil will resume performances of its “Ka” show in Las Vegas on Tuesday night, 17 days after an acrobat fell about 90 feet to her death in its closing scene, the company announced Sunday.
The first rule of Tall Club: You must be tall. For women, that’s 5 feet 10 inches or more. Men have to stand at least 6 feet 2 inches. Second rule of Tall Club: That’s it. There are no more rules.
An 82-year-old woman died after her car hit a palm tree on Alta Drive near Rosemary Lane on Saturday.
At the chilly depths of the Cold War, the survival of Southern Nevada hinged on a hole in the ground in the southwest valley. There, in a bunker made from buried railroad ties, a hand-picked crew of local officials planned to ride out the fallout, then emerge to restore order to post-apocalypse Las Vegas.
Las Vegas firefighters rescued an unidentified Las Vegas tree trimmer when he became stuck underneath palm fronds about 35 feet in the air for about 90 minutes Saturday afternoon.
There are some new rock-and-rollers in Las Vegas. Rockstar Club at the School of Rock is free for special needs children ages 10 to 18 thanks to a $10,000 grant from The Avril Lavigne Foundation obtained by Easter Seals Nevada.
Rain gets some credit for dousing flames on Mount Charleston this week, but work in the woods long before lightning sparked the blaze might have minimized its ferocity.
Charles Winston has been left with the sad duty of burying his stepson, a 23-year-old who was slain while trying to help another man jump-start his car in the northwest Las Vegas Valley.
A former Nellis Air Force Base officer was awarded nearly $1 million this month for blowing the whistle on a contract-steering scam involving a middleman in Florida and an engineering company hired to develop anti-terrorism techniques for a now-defunct warfare unit at the base.