Coach Ken Higbee was charged on 225 counts, including theft and forgery. His future with the Pahranagat Valley football program and as principal of C.O. Bastian High School is unknown. (Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
North Korea may have the capability of launching a missile that would reach Las Vegas or West Coast cities, military experts say. (Micheal Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
UNLV track and field coach Larry Wade coaches boxer Shawn Porter on strength and conditioning at the UNLV track in Las Vegas, Monday, April 10, 2017. (Elizabeth Brumley Las Vegas Review-Journal) @EliPagePhoto
Jesse Taylor was a finalist on The Ultimate Fighter season 7. Prior to the finale, he went on an alcohol-fueled bender in Las Vegas and was removed from the competition for his actions. Eighteen seasons later, he’s back and looking for redemption.
1. Pahranagat Valley football coach Ken Higbee is facing dozens of forgery and misconduct charges after authorities accused him of stealing about $122,000 from the Lincoln County School District. Higbee was charged April 10 with a 225-count criminal complaint that includes one count of theft, according to records from Meadow Valley Justice Court in Pioche. According to the criminal complaint, Higbee was entrusted with a debit card, credit card and checkbook to spend for the benefit of students at C.O. Bastian but instead used them to deprive the students of funds. No warrant has been issued for Higbee’s arrest.
2. After serving Las Vegas for 33 years, the Dealer’s Choice Lounge is closing for good after a last-ditch effort to revive the business ran out of time. The bar has struggled post the financial crisis as competition in the area increased. Nevada Restaurant Services Inc., the parent of Dotty’s, has applied to open a second Red Dragon Sports Bar at the location, according to a screen shot of a Gaming Control Board application. The Red Dragon would inherit Dealer’s Choice right to operate 15 poker terminals. The Red Dragon will also occupy the massage parlors on either side of the Dealer’s Choice.
3. Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez, who was serving a life sentence for a murder conviction and just days ago was acquitted of a double murder, died after hanging himself in his prison cell early Wednesday, according to Massachusetts prisons officials. The once New England Patriots tight end was pronounced dead at UMass Memorial-HealthAlliance Hospital in Leominster about an hour later. Hernandez was in a single cell in a general population housing unit in the maximum-security state prison. He hanged himself using a bed sheet that he attached to a cell window. Massachusetts State Police remain on the scene investigating the death. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Khalil Rountree, a Las Vegan competing on this season of The Ultimate Fighter, talks about how watching the show years ago prompted him to become a mixed martial artist and how he angled to get on Joanna Jedrzejczyk’s team.
Training out of Syndicate MMA in Las Vegas, Cory Hendricks will look to defeat his fellow teammate, Khalil Rountree, in the next episode of The Ultimate Fighter.
Homicide Lt. Dan McGrath addresses the fatal shooting at Lee’s Discount Liquor late Monday.
UFC lightweight Kevin “The Motown Phenom” Lee thinks fans already acknowledge him as a rising star of the division. He believes he’ll be a champion in the near future.
Chairman and Co-CEO’s, Dana Walden and Gary Newman, along with Showrunner Ilene Chaiken and cast member Bryshere Yazz Gray talk about the success of the TV show Empire.
Erika Herrera is a field organizer for the Nevada Democratic Party. This is the first campaign she has worked on since she was of voting age.
Professional skaters assisted the blind and visually impaired to learn to skate at Downtown Summerlin’s Rock Rink Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016.
Matt Youmans, Kelly Stewart and Aaron Kessler give their picks for NFL and college football for week eleven.
Robert Sitton takes the stand to testify against his brother Will Sitton, and Jacquie Schafer, who are facing multiple felonies including murder, robbery and burglary.
Tim McGarry, a member of the new UNLV soccer foundation board of directors, chats about where the Rebels men’s soccer team has been, and where it is going under coach Rich Ryerson. (Ron Kantowski/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Progressive groups and immigration attorneys, among others, hosted a free citizenship workshop at the College of Southern Nevada’s Cheyenne campus Saturday morning.
A year after he deployed to the Middle East, Airman Jason Driscoll was reunited with his family on Friday night during the Daddy Daughter Dance hosted by the VFW Post 10047 at Santa Fe casino-hotel in Las Vegas Friday, June 19, 2015.
Edmund Ho, the man accused of beating his sister, whom he pimped out and had a child with, appeared in court before Judge Douglas Herndon for sentencing on Tuesday, May 19th after pleading guilty last week to two counts of first-degree kidnapping.
Las Vegas police have arrested a man in connection with the road rage shooting that left 44-year-old Tammy Meyers dead and has drawn national attention.
Markiece Palmer and Dina Palmer, were charged with child abuse and murder after Roderick “RJ” Arrington was beaten to death in November of 2012. RJ’s mother, 28-year-old Dina Palmer, who was accused of participating in the beatings, pleaded guilty in exchange to drop a murder charge against her. She testified for the prosecution at Markiece Palmer’s trial.
The Beatles arrived in Las Vegas on Aug. 20, 1964, played at Las Vegas Convention Center and rested at the Sahara. Beatlemania ensued.(courtesy Las Vegas News Bureau)
From their backyard in Las Vegas, Don and Noriko Carroll used high-speed, close-up cameras to capture in photos and slow-motion video what had never been seen before in the wild. Hummingbirds drink nectar not by sipping it like through a straw. Rather they trap it with fringe on their narrow, split tongues and draw the fluid inside their bills by moving their tongues in out at up to 30 times a second.
Acting UNLV President Don Snyder, who chairs the stadium board, talks about options for paying to build a new stadium.
Matthew A. Boles, a program support assistant for voluntary service at the Veterans Affairs Southern Nevada Healthcare System, says management at the VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas needs to take care of the staff who are taking care of veterans.