CARSON CITY — Nevada Supreme Court justices expressed disbelief Tuesday that District Judge Jackie Glass blocks public defenders from challenging her decisions on whether defendants are mentally competent to stand trial.
The man who died when his sport utility vehicle overturned Friday morning on state Route 160 just east of Pahrump has been identified as 60-year-old Everett W. Quinn.
CARSON CITY — Nevada county officials have decided an experiment in open government in which top appointed officials undergo performance evaluations in public just doesn’t work.
This week readers want to know whether there are any plans to redo the roads outside the Eastside Cannery now that there’s all that traffic out there, are there any plans to widen Grand Canyon Drive, and when will the construction on the bridges on the Las Vegas Beltway, near south Decatur Boulevard, be finished? And the Road Warrior answers a bonus fourth question about the state of the Beltway at Far Hills Avenue.
A Las Vegas man shot and killed in the garage of a home near Sahara Avenue and Lamb Boulevard on Monday has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
Though a recent poll found that Hispanic voters in Nevada and five mountain West states favor Barack Obama over John McCain by a more than 2-to-1 margin, Latino organizers for Obama in Nevada are taking nothing for granted.
Nye County District Attorney Bob Beckett has pleaded not guilty to a drunken driving charge stemming from two crashes he was involved in during a six-hour span on the same California highway.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., was asked Tuesday about a decade-old remark that seems freshly apropos: He once said unmarried women who have children “need to be somewhat stigmatized.”
WASHINGTON — As Republicans are gathered this week in Minnesota for their national convention, Rep. Jon Porter is heading in another direction.
The pilot who was killed Thursday when the twin-engine airplane he was flying crashed into a North Las Vegas home had a clean record with the Federal Aviation Administration and the aircraft had never been involved in an accident, an FAA spokesman said Tuesday.
The former president of the teachers union has been hired by the Clark County School District to investigate working conditions, but one critic said the hiring of Mary Ella Holloway was further evidence of collusion between top union officials and district administrators.
RENO — A jet engine fire engulfed the wing of an air tanker moments after takeoff, sending the plane rolling into the ground and killing all three members of the aerial firefighting crew, a federal investigator said Tuesday.
O.J. Simpson’s lawyer declared the former football star was ready for jury selection to begin next Monday in his trial stemming from allegations he robbed two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint almost a year ago.
A motorcyclist in his mid-20s wanted for a morning robbery in Henderson died after falling off an offramp into southbound Interstate 15 traffic Tuesday morning.
In a world gone dizzy with celebrity, there isn’t much interest these days in small lives.
Back in 2005, state Sen. Terry Care, D-Las Vegas, sponsored a new law that requires the public evaluation of top county employees, as well as city officials, schools superintendents, university presidents and the university system chancellor. Those who serve at the pleasure of an elected body ought to have their performance reviews conducted in a public forum, Sen. Care figured.
When Nevada voters finally get around to punching their choices on November’s ticket, they might very well believe the bottom of the ballot has been cut off. Two years ago, the electorate decided 11 statewide questions; in two months, voters could have but a single issue before them.
Aurelio’s Pizza, 7660 W. Cheyenne Ave., received 19 demerits Aug. 19. Violations included dirty knives stored with clean in knife rack. GRADE: B
I finally have good news for all of the readers out there — and believe me, there are lots of you — who are looking for whole-belly clams.
Classically trained French chef Laurent Tourondel, who did a stint at a three-star restaurant in New York and at Caesars Palace, gives the traditional American sandwich gourmet treatment at the BLT Burger in The Mirage, 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. South.
Unlike hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Hurricane Gustav caused more disruption than destruction to the Gulf Coast casino industry.
Most of the claims in a lawsuit over the proposed Sullivan Square mixed-use development in the southwestern Las Vegas Valley have been dismissed, including the claim for breach of fiduciary duty, attorneys for defendant Harcourt Nevada said.