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A shooting inside a northeast valley home Sunday afternoon left one man dead, Las Vegas police said.
The price tags were almost identical: $240 million and change. The Hoover Dam bypass bridge and the I-15 overhaul both were designed to move traffic more efficiently. But one was viewed as an historic event; the other, a hand-wringing annoyance.
Dr. John C. Ruckdeschel, director and CEO of the Nevada Cancer Institute, has stepped down from the post less than two years after taking the helm.
On Friday, the mercury topped 92 degrees; tying a high temperature of 92 degrees for April Fool’s Day set 25 years ago.
The National Weather Service has issued a high wind watch for the Spring Mountains and the valley on Saturday afternoon and evening. Expect sustained winds from the southwest at 40 mph, with gusts at 60 mph or higher.
CARSON CITY — A bill to allow fire departments in Clark County to be consolidated was greeted with hostility by local governments and private ambulance companies Friday.
The Las Vegas Mob Experience at the Tropicana held a soft opening “preview” Tuesday. Participants were given “name tags” that boast radio frequency identification technology. Just for fun, they then could have whacked one another. Or they could have gotten “made.”
Nevada lawmakers launched a new bid Tuesday to block a proposed gravel quarry at Sloan Hills outside Henderson. Similar bills to declare mining off-limits on 800 acres overseen by the Bureau of Land Management stalled and died in last year’s session of Congress.
Army Spc. Brian Tabada of Las Vegas was killed Sunday in Afghanistan after insurgents ambushed his patrol. Tabada, 21, was a fire-support specialist trained in calling in aircraft and artillery to quell attacks on NATO troops, according to the 101st Airborne Division in Fort Campbell, Ky.
If the plan to build a stadium, retail complex and thousands of units of on-campus housing and hotel rooms at UNLV ever happens, it would transform the university. The plan, unveiled Tuesday by developers who back the idea, would see more than a third of the campus’ 332 acres turned into an integrated village.
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“It’s just heartbreaking,” said Judy Roman, whose houseboat was totaled and whose security camera recorded the fire.
Members of the Henderson Fire Department demonstrated how they respond to a 911 call about a child trapped in a hot car.
A fatal shooting at a Walmart parking lot is being investigated as a possible case of self-defense, according to the Henderson Police Department.
A suspect accused in a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian told investigators that she had struck construction equipment, according to her arrest report.
