A man was shot several times and critically wounded Tuesday afternoon near Martin Luther King Boulevard and Washington Avenue.
This week readers want to know whether there are any plans to complete Desert Inn Road in the eastern valley; are there any laws that prohibit panhandling; and what happens when you refuse to sign a traffic citation? And a reader sends in a personalized license plate that shows not everyone is hurting from the lagging economy.
Ten years ago on Valentine’s Day, illusionists Siegfried & Roy met backstage with Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight and his family.
Federal prosecutors have charged two men in last fall’s kidnapping of 6-year-old Cole Puffinburger, who was abducted from his home and held for ransom after his grandfather disappeared with $4 million in drug money.
The mother of a girl who was allegedly molested by Chester Stiles said Tuesday that she was shocked when her daughter, then 6, said the defendant kissed and touched her.
There will be some Federal Emergency Management Agency staffers traveling to Las Vegas in May after all.
A 30-year-old man accused of raping and killing a Boulder City woman was sentenced to several life sentences Tuesday in District Court.
Sixty-four years and one day after Parke Potter helped his fellow Marines fashion a pole out of a pipe they had dug from a rubble pile to fly the first U.S. flag atop Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi, Marines entombed his ashes Tuesday at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City.
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Maybe you thought about becoming a big business tycoon, but were never good with numbers.
CARSON CITY — The state Assembly in a 35-7 vote Tuesday backed a 3 percentage point increase in the room tax in Clark and Washoe counties.
A Henderson home that burned down Tuesday was in an area with deficient fire hydrants, but city officials said the lack of sufficient water pressure did not affect efforts to protect neighboring structures.
A majority of Nevadans think illegal immigration is having a negative effect on the state’s budget, according to a Zogby poll released last week.
CARSON CITY — Police would be permitted to pull over vehicles anytime they believe a driver is not wearing a seat belt under a bill approved 12-9 Tuesday in the Senate.
President Barack Obama might struggle with bipartisanship in Congress, but his speech Tuesday sat well with one Nevada group that included Republicans and Democrats, according to one poll.
Preening that Nevada could lead the nation in linking job creation to energy efficiency, state Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford detailed his “green jobs” initiative to a legislative panel in Carson City last Friday.
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With the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been confidently stating that the Yucca Mountain Project is essentially dead. Is it?
When “The Wiz” opened in 1975, Broadway was having some fun (and encouraging minority employment) by doing all-black versions of established works (“Guys and Dolls,” “Hello, Dolly!”). “The Wiz” took the 1939 Judy Garland movie and made it into a lightweight script that seemed to want to do nothing but be irreverent. It won the Tony Award for best musical during one of the worst seasons ever. The 1978 overblown film version put an end to Diana Ross’ film career.
Cafe Deia is named after a village on the island of Mallorca, off the coast of Spain, so it’s not surprising that its menu and atmosphere are designed to put diners in a Mediterranean frame of mind.
Are you, like Dale Betts, looking for good beef jerky? If so, fellow readers have some suggestions.
Bakery King, 6000 S. Eastern Ave., received 19 demerits Feb. 9. Violations included all baking pans and trays with severe grease and food debris. GRADE: B
Wynn Resorts Ltd. tumbled to a fourth-quarter net loss due to a nearly $100 million tax expense and falling revenues at the company’s Las Vegas casinos.
The local cable television company says a few of its Internet customers with computer communications hookups dating back nine or more years must buy new equipment.
