SPARKS — Gov. Jim Gibbons defied a legislative decision and issued an executive order Friday to allow him to hire a federal stimulus funds director who will work in his office.
Three political sources told me Friday U.S. District Judge Brian Sandoval wasn’t as interested in challenging U.S. Sen. Harry Reid as he was in running for governor — putting him at loggerheads with Reid’s oldest son, Rory.
Police have arrested a fourth person in connection with the July beating death of an 82-year-old Henderson man.
A federal jury Friday found Las Vegas businessman Robert Kahre guilty of all 57 felony counts of evading taxes, failing to withhold taxes from workers’ wages, and engaging in fraud during real estate transactions.
Three other defendants were found guilty of most, but not all, of their related charges.
World War II Silver Star medal recipient Irving I. “Zeke” Schwartz, of Henderson, died Friday of complications from cancer, his family said. He was 84.
Federal Judge Brian Sandoval will resign just four years after beginning a lifetime appointment to the U.S. District Court in Nevada.
It wasn’t your standard graduation party, but for Marcellina Morcos, Friday signaled the end of a long, arduous road — and the beginning of a new life.
British TV personality Piers Morgan is in town this weekend, not to judge our talent, but to examine our city in a transitional time.
Former county Recorder Frances “Fran” Deane pleaded guilty Friday to corruption charges.
It often takes a while to respond to even a good show, but Signature Productions/Super Summer Theatre’s “Once on This Island” is the kind of musical you’re likely to fall in love with within minutes.
As President Obama’s health care proposal survives on life support, his huge energy tax plan known as “cap and trade” passes each day in the next hospital room, breathing with the help of a respirator.
Auto dealers say they still haven’t been repaid for the majority of “Cash for Clunkers” deals they have made, creating cash crunches for many as they wait for the government to reimburse them under the popular $3 billion vehicle trade-in program.
Alabama-based Colonial BancGroup, which has 22 branches and $850 million in deposits in Nevada, was seized Friday by regulators and its deposits taken over by BB&T, a giant Southeast bank.
Regulators closed and started liquidating Community Bank late Friday, establishing a temporary bank to give depositors time to find a new financial institution.
A group of earnings reports from smaller gaming companies had a common theme Friday: Revenues continue to fall while the companies talk to creditors about restructuring debt.
The 1965 World’s Fair meets the Internet at one of the newest interactive learning sites on the Web. Wonder Rotunda (www.wonderrotunda.com) is the brainchild of Eric Garfinkle, who said he grew up a bus ride from the fair and went to it two or three dozen times with his buddies.
Station Casinos, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy July 28, posted a net loss of $65.3 million in the second quarter ended June 30 and revealed that one its newest properties is losing money, according to a filing made Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nonito Donaire unanimously outpointed Rafael Concepcion tonight at the Hard Rock in his first super flyweight fight to take the WBA interim title.
