Princess Abby is missing one eye and a lot of fur. She’s got rabbit ears, a camel’s back and a kangaroo hop. She has mismatched legs, an inverted floppy front foot and a twisted tail. Add a pile of personality and some unusual dance moves, and the 6-pound Chihuahua easily won the title of World’s Ugliest Dog at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma over the weekend.
A coroner’s inquest into the death of 21-year-old Trevon Cole has been scheduled for Aug. 20, the Clark County Coroner’s office announced Wednesday.
Firefighters, police officers and other union workers in Henderson have agreed to forgo cost-of-living raises for a minimum of two years under new labor agreements that might help stave off layoffs in Nevada’s second-largest city.
WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission set ground rules Wednesday for appeals of this week’s ruling that sidetracked plans to scrap a Yucca Mountain nuclear waste license.
The incident that led to the arrest of UNLV basketball star Tre’Von Willis began with an argument with his female accuser about text messaging, according to a Henderson police report obtained Wednesday.
Maggots falling from an overhead bin from a spoiled container of meat forced a US Airways flight to return to the gate in Atlanta so that the bin could be cleaned.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. investors were the big winners in June, with the company’s stock value climbing 11.12 percent for the month, a report issued by financial firm Applied Analysis shows.
Former NBA all-star Antoine Walker on Wednesday pleaded not guilty in District Court to felony bad check charges stemming from his failure to repay about $770,000 in gambling debts he owed to three Las Vegas casinos.
The suspect involved in Tuesday afternoon’s “suspicious device” incident that closed portions of Decatur Boulevard and Sahara Avenue was wanted in North Las Vegas on felony drug and weapon charges, police said.
The average homeowner doesn’t think about so-called “strategic default” on their mortgage until equity falls to 62 percent of the home’s value, a study from the Federal Reserve Board showed.
Air travel into Las Vegas slid for the fourth straight month in May, new numbers from McCarran International Airport show.
The airport hosted 3.48 million arriving and departing passengers in May, down 1.6 percent from 3.53 million fliers in May 2009.
