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November 21, 2007 - 10:00 pm

SUV VS. TRACTOR-TRAILER RIG

Victim of fatal crash identified as LV man

The 28-year-old Las Vegas man who died Monday after rear-ending a tractor-trailer has been identified as Michael Dabu.

Las Vegas police said Dabu was driving east in a 2002 Ford Explorer on Silverado Ranch Boulevard near Las Vegas Boulevard about 6:30 a.m. when he struck the back of a tractor-trailer stopped at a traffic light.

The driver of the big rig sustained minor injuries.

SHOOTING DEATH

NLV police make arrest in Halloween slaying

Authorities have arrested a 20-year-old man in the fatal shooting of another man outside a Halloween party in North Las Vegas.

North Las Vegas police on Thursday arrested Edward Earl Walker and booked him into the North Las Vegas jail on charges that he killed 18-year-old Jamal Hill on Nov. 1.

Walker was taken into custody without incident, police said.

Hill was found shot to death outside an apartment complex in the 1600 block of Gowan Road, near Martin Luther King Boulevard.

FILE - House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., joined by Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, right, a ...

House budget bill advances in procedural vote; final passage uncertain

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking and Stephen Groves The Associated Press

September 29, 2023 - 9:14 am

The White House has declined Kevin McCarthy’s overtures to meet with President Joe Biden after the speaker walked away from the debt deal they brokered earlier this year.

The Advisory Committee on Participatory Democracy meets to discuss voter education and the pres ...

Nevada Dems, GOP lay out 2024 presidential nomination plans

By Jessica Hill / RJ

September 29, 2023 - 6:01 am

Here’s how the Nevada Democrats and Republicans plan to select their presidential nominee in 2024.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., speaks with a reporter on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 ...

Dianne Feinstein, passionate advocate for liberal priorities, dies at 90

By Michael R. Blood, Mary Clare Jalonick, Lisa Mascaro and Michael Balsamo The Associated Press

September 29, 2023 - 7:52 am

She has served as California’s senior senator since 1992 and was one of several trailblazing women elected to Congress that year.

People walk past signs advertising MGM Rewards perks at the Aria hotel-casino on Friday, June 1 ...

MGM Rewards app still zapped after cyberattack

By McKenna Ross / RJ

September 28, 2023 - 6:04 pm

Several features on the MGM Rewards app remain inaccessible to customers more than two weeks after a cyberattack on MGM Resorts International.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs the fast food bill surrounded buy fast food workers at the S ...

California fast food workers get big boost in minimum wage

By Adam Beam The Associated Press

September 28, 2023 - 4:28 pm

A new law in California will raise the minimum wage for fast food workers next year.

Ahmed Alaawaj, of Libya, gets his photo taken by Juan Riaz, of Colombia, at the Grand Canyon Na ...

Shutdown? You can still visit these national parks in Utah, Arizona

By Anita Snow The Associated Press

September 28, 2023 - 4:11 pm

Arizona and Utah will keep the iconic national parks in those states open if a shutdown of the federal government threatens access to Arizona’s Grand Canyon.

(Las Vegas Review-Journal)

CCSD getting $10M to boost early childhood literacy

By Julie Wootton-Greener / RJ

September 29, 2023 - 12:09 am

The Clark County School District plans to use the funding to implement a literacy and language skills program.

"Diablo" was fired on July 15, 1957, at the Nevada Test Site from a 500 foot tower. It had a yi ...

Screening of nuclear fallout film coming to downtown; Titus to speak

By Taylor Lane / RJ

September 28, 2023 - 2:39 pm

The film “Downwind” explores the history and consequences of nuclear fallout and detonations at the Nevada Test Site, now known as the Nevada National Security Site.

Witnesses are sworn in before the House Oversight Committee impeachment inquiry into President ...

House GOP begins Biden impeachment inquiry

By Farnoush Amiri, Lisa Mascaro and Eric Tucker The Associated Press

September 28, 2023 - 2:03 pm

As the hearing began, Democrats displayed a screen showing the days, hours and minutes left until the government shuts down as Congress struggles to fund the government before Saturday’s deadline.

Could real estate be a big ticket item for next year’s presidential election?

By Patrick Blennerhassett / RJ

September 28, 2023 - 1:48 pm

Las Vegas real estate experts say high inflation and mortgage rates coupled with a lack of supply of houses could make the market a key issue for politicians in 2024.