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The hang-gliding instructor and his 11-year-old student who died Friday afternoon in a hang gliding accident near Jean have been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office as John Kelly Harrison, 55, of Hawaii, and Arys Moorhead, of Farmington, N.M.
A dozen dignitaries including three members of Nevada’s congressional delegation pitched the first shovelfuls of dirt Friday to launch construction of the state’s first Fisher House where families of wounded warriors can stay while their loved ones recover at the North Las Vegas VA Medical Center.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid announced Friday that he will not seek re-election, a decision that signals the oncoming end of an era in Nevada and scrambles the political landscape in the state and in the nation’s capital.
Sen. Harry Reid announced Friday that he will not be seeking re-election. Here’s how his friends and foes from across the political spectrum reacted to the news:
It’s the last of the Lakotas. Nevada Army National Guard leaders on Friday showed off their new, UH-72A Lakota helicopter, the last of 212 ordered by the Army and one of only 345 produced for the U.S. military.
Civil libertarians raised new concerns Friday over a bill sought by the Nevada Department of Corrections to make all agency records confidential following this week’s revelations that an inmate was shot and killed by a state prison guard four months ago.
By March 14, according to the Nevada parole board, 28-year-old Carlos Manuel Perez Jr.’s debt to society would have been paid. But instead of leaving High Desert State Prison a free man, he left a dead man.
An investigative report on the shooting, which went unreported to either Gov. Brian Sandoval or to the public, was sent to the state attorney general’s office Thursday.
Cued by the words “all rise,” the three judges of Nevada’s new Court of Appeals entered their Las Vegas courtroom Wednesday to hear oral arguments for the first time.
A shooting that left one inmate dead at a Southern Nevada prison last fall involved two handcuffed inmates and at least one prison guard, a lawyer for a surviving inmate said Wednesday.
Charges have been dropped against a Pahrump man who was wanted by the Nye County sheriff’s office.
Jack St. Martin on Wednesday was named president of Engage Nevada, a group that registered more than 30,000 conservative voters to fuel a Republican election wave that put the GOP in charge of state government and the Legislature.
An Idaho man died Tuesday evening in a rollover crash in Nye County, the Nevada Highway Patrol announced Wednesday.
A fugitive the FBI says is behind as many as 10 Nevada bank robberies has been arrested in Mississippi.
A top Department of Homeland Security official improperly intervened to fast-track visas for foreign investors in the $415 million SLS Las Vegas renovation after being pressured by U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, according to an inspector general’s report released Tuesday.
