Las Vegas headliner legend Paul Anka suffered a head wound that required two staples to close it as the result of a domestic scuffle last month, according to a celebrity Web site.
After refusing in August to submit a slashed budget for the next two years, the university system Board of Regents on Friday recommended a method the governor could use to make the cuts himself.
WASHINGTON — The expert committee created by Congress to monitor the government’s $700 billion attempted rescue of the nation’s financial system will hold its first field hearing in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
It was going fairly well for Victor King at one point. His house in the southwest part of the Las Vegas Valley was appraised at $800,000 and business, at a company that tracks vehicles using GPS devices, was good.
WASHINGTON — The White House should “stand up and show some courage” by rejecting a last-minute request for loans to tide over the distressed U.S. auto industry, Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., said Friday afternoon.
A story in Friday’s Review-Journal about a woman being sentenced in a fatal stabbing at Bally’s misidentified the woman who was impregnated by her pimp. The woman impregnated by her pimp was victim Taleasha Jamerson, according to Jamerson’s mother, Keitha Bradley.
They line up hours or even a day in advance, fighting the late-night and early morning cold and sometimes each other.
Brett Leibowitz is still relishing a state football championship less than a month old.
The College of Southern Nevada’s campus police chief has been removed from his job and replaced.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — A Utah woman who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the death of her husband in northwest Arizona was sentenced Friday to four months in jail.
Rebecca and Edward Shoemaker have been foster parents for 35 newborns the past five years and were described as “a phenomenal family, a phenomenal resource” for Clark County Department of Family Services. He’s a Las Vegas police officer; she’s a stay-at-home mom who was adopted as a newborn herself. Married for 22 years, they’ve raised a son, 20, and a daughter, 15.
Envelopes containing white powder were delivered to state offices in Las Vegas and Carson City on Friday, prompting evacuations, decontamination procedures and a lockdown. The substances inside were ultimately found to be harmless.
A courtyard at the restored Fifth Street School in downtown Las Vegas has been named in honor of Frank Wright, the late historian known for his infectious enthusiasm for local history and historic preservation.
The BLM announced Friday that it plans to round up nearly 2,000 Nevada wild horses — in areas south of Battle Mountain and Gerlach — so they can be taken off the range and readied for adoption or long-term confinement.
Western Alliance Bancorporation, the $5.2 billion-asset holding company for Bank of Nevada and other banks, intends to charge off as much as $77 million because of investments that went bad.
A bankruptcy judge on Friday suggested that attorneys for Lake Las Vegas may be wrapping up financial arrangements so investment bank Credit Suisse can take over the troubled 3,600-acre Henderson community built around a man-made lake.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — Despite an economic downturn, a Mexico-based company continues to develop a $400 million cement production project in northern Arizona, about 15 miles northwest of Seligman.