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With a Propel bottle full of Malibu rum in her bag, Leticia sat through high school programs that warned her about the dangers of drinking. But her spiral into alcoholism, then drug addiction, began years earlier.
In a fiery speech to conservative bloggers, Sarah Palin accused “old media” of not doing its job to vet Barack Obama before he became president and said it was up to “new media” to tell the truth to prevent his re-election in 2012.
A 22-year-old woman who had paranoid delusions after taking drugs at the Electric Daisy Carnival died Monday after she fell from her Strip hotel room, according to her family and friends.
Three young children died in a fire that destroyed two mobile homes in Las Vegas on Friday. The Clark County Fire Department was called to Van’s Trailer Oasis at 3610 Las Vegas Blvd. North, next to the Hitchin’ Post RV Park near Lamb Boulevard.
Bidding on a new bus contract can get under way after more than a year of delays thanks to a unanimous decision by the Regional Transportation Commission on Thursday. The board, which had deadlocked on votes on a $600 million fixed-route contract, agreed to a new bidding process that will start July 10.
Seventy-one veterans who sleep on Clark County streets are now on the radar of local advocacy groups trying to put a roof over their heads.
Wayne Newton has turned back an attempt by his landlord and estranged business partner to evict his prized Arabian horses from the Casa de Shenandoah ranch in Las Vegas where he lives. Clark County District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez ruled Thursday that Steven Kennedy’s request to shed the $37,000-a-month upkeep for the 51 horses “appears inconsistent with components of the operating agreement” he signed with Newton two years ago.