O.J. Simpson was allowed to leave isolation to attend a worship service during his first week in jail, it was learned Friday.
Bob Hechter’s Oak World furniture store on East Flamingo Road flourished under the Clinton administration and is going out of business under the Bush administration.
A photo caption in Friday’s Review-Journal indicated an incorrect location for the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center, home to the new Mojave Max. The Bureau of Land Management says the center is at an undisclosed facility in the south Las Vegas Valley that is not open to the public.
Todd Yocum’s autistic 8-year-old son has had six teachers since he started pre-school at age 3. Only two of them were licensed to teach autistic children, Yocum said, and the rest were substitutes.
Three Bureau of Land Management biologists were held at gunpoint by suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel after stumbling upon a marijuana garden in a remote area of Northern Nevada on Tuesday.
A jury Friday spared the life of the man accused of beating to death his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter and then dumping her in a trash bin. Instead, the jury sentenced Marc Anthony Colon to spend the rest of his life behind bars for the 2006 slaying of Crystal Figueroa, also known as Jane “Cordova” Doe.
North Las Vegas police were searching Friday for a man suspected in an Oct. 3 shooting death at an apartment.
CARSON CITY — The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada has questioned the removal of the only polling machine on the Washoe Tribe’s Dresslerville Reservation in Douglas County, but an election official said the removal was justified because of a low number of voters.
Nevada, it has been said, is critical. Polls are tight. Electoral votes are scarce.
‘Tis a tale of a $1,500 caramel. Another in a continuing series in which I urge you to learn from my many mistakes. Apparently, I will never run out of column topics.
When the state’s economy needs a shot in the arm, Nevadans can always count on California to ride to the rescue. The Golden State’s Marxist lawmakers have put ever-increasing tax and regulatory burdens on industry, chasing scores of employers to the more business-friendly confines of Nevada. But come Nov. 4, it’s California’s voters who might deliver the coup de grace to their ranching industry — and help diversify Nevada’s economy in the process.
A drop in conventions and the number of people attending them drove Las Vegas tourism numbers down sharply in August.
Attorneys for a Hong Kong businessman who won a multimillion-dollar judgment against Las Vegas Sands Corp. are asking a judge to order the casino operator to post a bond on the award because the current economic meltdown has affected the company’s fiscal stability.
Foreclosures have nearly tripled in Clark County through September, and the number coming down the pike is growing, a California-based online foreclosure source reported.
Hard-money lender Mike Shustek on Friday said he has no fears about hard times in Las Vegas and that members of the CEO-CFO Group shouldn’t either.