CARSON CITY — A nationally recognized prisons expert said Tuesday that Nevada has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the county, but that may be due to released inmates who end up in California prisons.
The Clark County coroner’s office received a $400,000 federal grant to create a program for using DNA testing to help solve missing persons cases.
A district judge probably will decide soon whether to unseal search warrants issued in Clark County after pop superstar Michael Jackson’s death.
A 52-year-old Henderson man was found dead after a car crash in the southwest valley Tuesday morning. Las Vegas police believe the accident might have been caused by a medical condition.
A request to build a fast-food restaurant next to a pet cemetery has been withdrawn, but cemetery supporters remain wary because the property at issue still could be rezoned for commercial use.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced Tuesday that he has appointed the state’s higher education chancellor to a federal board that advises the U.S. secretary of education.
Here’s a novel approach to promoting your latest book: Badmouth the city on the next stop of your book tour.
Conservative Sharron Angle isn’t ceding anything to leading Republicans who want to challenge incumbent Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.
For the second time in five months, Sheriff Doug Gillespie convened reporters to disclose that an on-duty officer was not wearing a seat belt or using lights and sirens when his speeding car crashed, claiming his life.
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A road-widening project on the northern Las Vegas Beltway that has become mired in a legal morass could be mothballed. … Several Clark County commissioners expressed impatience Tuesday with the continuing feud between bidders to widen the Beltway between Decatur Boulevard and Tenaya Way. They suggested spending the $140 million earmarked for the project on other road improvements.
The mother of a worker who died trying to save the life of a colleague in 2007 feels vindicated by a new report that found “an urgent need for corrections in oversight and changes in all phases” of the state’s worker and occupational safety program.
In recent years, signs marking school zones and the hours during which they’re in effect have been mostly replaced by flashing signs. But some of the older signs still exist, and they tend to cause some confusion.
Dolores “Dee” Frensdorff, former Las Vegan and widow of the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada’s first bishop, died Monday in San Diego. She was 76.
Speaking before a carefully hand-picked audience — most of the 500 tickets to the gathering in the Lawlor Events Center at the University of Nevada, Reno were distributed through the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — Vice President Joe Biden assured Northern Nevadans on Friday that the Obama administration’s $787 billion economic stimulus plan has started to move the nation toward economic recovery. Mr. Biden went on to say that Harry Reid has made sure Nevadans are getting their share.
Halloween is just 10 days away, so time is running out for partiers to come up with a unique or timely costume.
Lionel Clement, chef chocolatier at Wynn Las Vegas, took second place in the World Chocolate Masters Competition in Paris on Friday. As the American representative, he competed against chocolatiers from 18 other countries.
Pink’s is to Hollywood what Nathan’s is to Brooklyn: a hot dog institution. Whereas Nathan’s expanded, however, Pink’s has remained at the same corner (La Brea and Melrose avenues) on which it opened as a pushcart in 1939.
Lemon curd — that oh-so-tart, slightly sweet English import — is phenomenal when it’s homemade. It’s also kind of a lot of trouble, so it’s fortuitous that readers have found local sources of it for Coleen Norburn.
Home canning is on the rise in Southern Nevada, as across the country, although whether it’s because of the economy remains open to question.
Antojos DF Authentic Mexican Food, 3430 E. Tropicana Ave., received 20 demerits Oct. 7. Violations included three-door cooler not maintaining proper temperature. GRADE: B
CityCenter is worth about half of what it cost MGM Mirage and Dubai World to build the massive Strip development, according to third-party valuation specialists.
“News One at 9 p.m.,” a television news program produced by Greenspun Media Group and KLAS-TV Channel 8 in Las Vegas, pulled the plug on its operations Tuesday and laid off four staff members, according to local media reports.
