Mohave County Search and Rescue personnel in northwestern Arizona combed the Mohave Channel near Kingman on Tuesday for a person reported missing when the normally dry wash ran like a raging river Monday night, but then gave up the search after no one was reported missing.
The White House is defying a congressional subpoena by keeping a top political aide to President Barack Obama from testifying at a hearing Wednesday, setting up a potential new legal battle in this midterm election year.
Cleveland Clinic, best known in Southern Nevada for its work at the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, ranked fourth nationally in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Hospitals” survey released Tuesday. In Las Vegas, the center’s specialties in urology ranked No. 1 and neurology ranked No. 6.
One of the owners of Super Liquor stores on the Strip pleaded guilty Tuesday in a tax evasion scheme authorities say hid $4 million in gross receipts from the IRS.
Local rapper Orlando Clemons, known as “Splashgod”, is interviewed at his recording studio in Las Vegas about his March arrest as he walked on Fremont Street with friends after performing a show. Clemons claims that physical force used by a Las Vegas police officer against him was unjustified and that the video is proof. The video which surfaced following the incident went viral on social media before Clemons and his friends were able to file any formal complaint against the officer.
The annual salaries of the North Las Vegas and Henderson constables were dropped to $103,456 from, respectively, about $250,000 and $180,000 on Tuesday.
The Nye County inmate who didn’t return to jail after being on work release on Saturday has been found. Jonathan Ross Moncada, 31, left the Nye County Detention Center on Saturday and did not come back when he was supposed to, according to the sheriff’s office.
The ex-wife of a police officer who left the department after a report tied him to the Ku Klux Klan told investigators that the couple joined the group as part of an undercover operation, according to a report released Tuesday by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
A senior fellow of the CATO libertarian think tank criticized the proposed Nevada business margins tax in Reno on Tuesday, calling it “something that chokes off the start of new businesses.”
Using her keys as a primitive scalpel to cut off her own leg was one of the options Noel Shannon considered the night she lay trapped under her 1996 Toyota truck.
