Nevada’s unemployment rose to 12.5 percent in July, while joblessness in especially hard-hit Las Vegas surged to 13.1 percent. It’s the highest jobless rate both statewide and locally since the state began tracking data in 1976.
Las Vegas left-hander Fabio Castro started this season in dominant fashion, compiling a 2-0 mark with a 0.83 ERA in April for Double-A New Hampshire and a 24 1/3-inning scoreless streak in May for the 51s.
Top Rank chairman Bob Arum announced Monday that everything is set for Manny Pacquiao, considered boxing’s best pound-for-pound fighter, to face WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto on Nov. 14 at the MGM Grand Garden. The nontitle fight, scheduled for 12 rounds, will be contested at a catch weight of 145 pounds.
Dan Henderson’s victory over Rich Franklin in January was anything but decisive.
The Republican National Committee began airing television ads in Nevada and two other states on Monday attacking President Barack Obama’s plans for health care reform.
Ominous clouds hovered over the Las Vegas Valley on Monday, drenching Mount Charleston before unleashing a downpour on urban Clark County, according to the National Weather Service.
• A story in Monday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal should have said a mass-kissing protest near a Mormon church temple took place in Salt Lake City.
The first news is bad news at Super Summer Theatre/Stage Door Entertainment’s “West Side Story.” The eight-member Nancy Westside Band lets out a blast of a Leonard Bernstein prologue from which the production never recovers. The music so overwhelms the vocals that you sometimes wonder if this was meant to be a concert.
The government watchdog group that is calling for a criminal investigation into payments made to U.S. Sen. John Ensign’s former mistress accused the Department of Justice on Monday of shying away from a case that could be a political hot potato.
A 78-year-old man from Arizona died Monday after his vehicle was struck by a driver who ran a red light near East Sahara Avenue and Commercial Center, Las Vegas police said.
It must have seemed so simple a few years ago when rising real estate prices were outpaced only by investor confidence in booming Southern Nevada.
West Virginia native Mike Hamrick came to Las Vegas for his first full-time job in 1981 in the marketing department at UNLV.
It’s likely that only die-hard theater buffs will know this one, so I hope you’ll trust me: Las Vegas Little Theatre’s “The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee” is a light, moving, poignant, funny and superbly acted and sung evening that seems just right for summer.
GLIDE, Ore. — The body of a missing fly fisherman from Las Vegas has been recovered from the North Umpqua River.
A commission examining judicial reform recommended Monday that Nevada judges should be disqualified from cases if parties appearing before them arranged for the contribution of $50,000 or more toward their campaigns.
A man accused of killing three people during a 2006 Las Vegas crime spree was convicted of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon and other charges Monday.
Las Vegas is known as a great place to play, if you’re over 21. … But for the second year in a row, a community just to the southeast has been recognized as a great place to play for kids.