Uno … dos … tres. .. cuatro … CINCO de Mayo! While you’re timing how fast it takes you to drink that Corona, sucking down the lime as though it were a worm from a bottle of mescal , stop for just a second and try to figure out what Cinco de Mayo actually is. Contemplate its history.
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As a former college football quarterback, Rob Bone is comfortable running the offense for slot machine manufacturer WMS Industries.
Sergio Salazar tried to break through the wall of a burning shed with a pickax to save the boy inside. After a few blows, the handle broke. By the time firefighters arrived at the blaze near Oakey Boulevard and Eastern Avenue on Thursday afternoon, all was lost.
Light showers are expected in the Las Vegas Valley on Monday and Tuesday as a low pressure system off California’s coast moves east and brings moisture with it, according to the National Weather Service in Las Vegas.
Allegations of patient dumping at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital gained the attention of federal and independent agencies that sent investigators to the Las Vegas facility Thursday and Friday.
A late afternoon accident has closed the right southbound lane of U.S. Highway 95 south of Tropicana Avenue, according to the Regional Transportation Commission.
One child was killed and another injured in a Las Vegas house fire Thursday.
Three dozen couples took the plunge in the name of symbolism Thursday in a quickie wedding chapel on the Las Vegas Strip. None of the ceremonies were legally binding, but the participants insisted they weren’t pointless, either.
State officials on Thursday placed a full-time psychologist at University Medical Center to help deal with the overflow of mentally ill patients coming through the emergency room.
A salmonella outbreak traced to a trendy tapas restaurant sickened nearly 90 people so far and is considered the worst of its kind in Southern Nevada in a decade, a health official said Wednesday.
Upheaval involving improper patient discharges at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital is affecting Clark County hospitals now struggling with an influx of the mentally ill.
Amid thousands of cheering people outside the federal courthouse on Wednesday, a war of words began between U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and a lone tea party member with a megaphone.
Massive photos of scantily clad models could be popping up on building facades in downtown Las Vegas, as long as they’re not too scantily clad.
