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August 27, 2009 - 9:00 pm

• A headline on a story in Wednesday's Review-Journal was incorrect. The mother of a 2-year-old Florida girl asphyxiated by a Burmese python and the woman's boyfriend were charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter in connection with the death, not convicted.

• The address listed for Nevada Pigeon Control in a feature that ran in the Aug. 16 Living section was an old one. The company's address is 2920 Brookspark Drive in North Las Vegas.

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The site of the proposed Southern Nevada supplemental airport in the Ivanpah Valley, left, is s ...

New proposed Vegas airport faces organized opposition

By Richard N. Velotta / RJ

July 30, 2025 - 10:56 am

Few comments were received at Tuesday’s virtual scoping meeting, but environmentalists could make their voices heard at Wednesday’s Las Vegas meeting.

This shows an empty beach in Shirahama, Wakayama prefecture, western Japan Wednesday, July 30, ...

Tsunami waves reach Hawaii, California, Japan after quake strikes off Russia’s Far East

By Mari Yamaguchi and Valdimir Isachenkov Associated Press

July 30, 2025 - 9:41 am

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off Russia’s sparsely populated Far East early Wednesday, sending tsunami waves into Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast.

California football coach recalls Shane Tamura as ‘just a quiet kid’

By McKenna Ross / RJ

July 30, 2025 - 6:22 am

Details about Shane Tamura’s life have emerged after the Las Vegas man fatally shot four people in a New York City skyscraper before turning his gun on himself.

Hawaii prepares for tsunami after 8.8 quake strikes Russia

The Associated Press

July 29, 2025 - 11:43 pm

The impact of the tsunami could last for hours or perhaps more than a day, said Dave Snider of the National Tsunami Warning Center in Alaska

Mosquito larvae float in water in a climate controlled chamber Tuesday, July 15, 2025 at UNLV&# ...

Las Vegas mosquitoes test positive for West Nile virus, officials say

By Spencer Levering / RJ

July 29, 2025 - 5:49 pm

The Southern Nevada Health District said it has ollected its first sample of West Nile virus-positive mosquitoes this year.

This image from surveillance video obtained by The Associated Press shows Shane Tamura outside ...

SAUNDERS: Another mass shooting, another butcher’s bogus rationale

By Debra J. Saunders / RJ

July 29, 2025 - 5:03 pm

Manhattan high-rise killer says he had an important message. These days, even mass murder has become politicized.

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced Tuesday, July 29, 2025, he filed a lawsuit against ...

AG Ford sues Trump administration over Planned Parenthood funding

By Jessica Hill / RJ

July 29, 2025 - 1:45 pm

Attorney General Aaron Ford and others filed a lawsuit challenging the Big Beautiful Bill’s provisions defunding Planned Parenthood for one year.

Sigal Chattah poses for a photo at the Review-Journal studio on Aug. 19, 2022, in Las Vegas. ( ...

Sigal Chattah’s term as temporary US attorney extended

By Jessica Hill / RJ

July 29, 2025 - 3:33 pm

Donald Trump appointed Las Vegas attorney Sigal Chattah as acting U.S. Attorney the day before her previous appointment as interim U.S. Attorney expired Wednesday, Chattah said Tuesday.

NYC shooter was previously arrested at Las Vegas casino

By Katelyn Newberg / RJ

July 29, 2025 - 11:49 am

A Las Vegas man who killed four people in Manhattan had been arrested at Red Rock Resort two years earlier.

Former Badlands owner sues county for $8M ‘unlawfully collected’ property taxes

By Ricardo Torres-Cortez / RJ

July 29, 2025 - 3:18 pm

Clark County “unlawfully collected” more than $8 million in property taxes and fees for the defunct Badlands golf course, according to a lawsuit filed by the former landowner of the 250 acres.