Whether he was ministering to the homeless or rubbing elbows with executives in corporate boardrooms, Monsignor Patrick Leary’s quick Irish wit and sincere compassion made him friends wherever he went.
When she’s not delivering babies at her private practice, Dr. Florence Jameson can usually be found roaming the halls of an old park building near Tropicana and Eastern avenues.
A multibillion-dollar mortgage settlement reached in February to hold banks accountable for questionable dealings during the recession is working, but still needs more time to be fully implemented, program overseer Joseph Smith said.
An anticipated influx of thousands of lovebirds wanting to get hitched in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Dec. 12 — 12/12/12 — has the Clark County Marriage License Bureau preparing for long lines.
Mob Museum to mark day with party featuring cocktails from era
Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012
When the country outlawed alcohol in 1920, millions of Americans turned to a clandestine network of speakeasies and bootleggers in search of a stiff drink.
A new report released Tuesday analyzing operations of Las Vegas Fire & Rescue details several recommendations to help the department save on overtime and improve the efficiency of its emergency medical services.
Clark County School District Police have arrested two siblings in connection with the battery of a student that was recorded and uploaded to YouTube this week.
A Henderson woman stabbed to death at her home on Wednesday has been identified as 43-year-old Candace Michele Moffett, the Clark County Coroner’s Office said.
Hundreds line up for their chance — or a pooled chance — at winning $550 million lottery prize
Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012
After selling a car Tuesday morning, Thurston Simpson decided he’d take the rest of his day to head out to Arizona to buy a few lottery tickets for a chance at the $550 million Powerball jackpot. But before Simpson could make it out the door, his co-workers at Fairway Chevrolet began reaching into their wallets, asking him to buy tickets for them, too. One co-worker even went to the bank to take out money.
With the Thanksgiving holiday in the rear-view mirror, it's time to break out the shopping lists for Christmas and Hanukkah. Here are five gift ideas you’ll find only in Las Vegas.
Despite long odds — one shot in 175 million — of hitting the jackpot in Wednesday’s record $425 million Powerball lottery, hundreds of people are lining up at stores just inside the Arizona border to buy tickets.
Two men are dead, the result of a possible murder-suicide early this afternoon in the central valley. Metro Police responded about 12:10 p.m. Wednesday to the 2000 block of Sun Land Avenue, near West Rancho Boulevard and Alta Drive, after receiving numerous reports of shots being fired.
A 56-year-old man was hit and killed by a car late Tuesday night while attempting to cross Boulder Highway, Henderson Police said. The man was hit about 11:10 p.m. near the intersection of Boulder Highway and Major Avenue.
Since opening the state of Nevada’s first craft distillery in the summer of 2011, George Racz jokes that his business has nearly gone bankrupt 72 1/2 times. Exaggerations aside, Racz isn’t kidding when he says his entry into the liquor business has been challenging. Bottles of the Las Vegas Distillery’s vodka and rumskey — a blend of whiskey and rum dreamed up by Racz — made it to the shelves of less than two dozen stores around the valley.
Seven Las Vegas residents were arrested by federal authorities this week on charges of wire fraud and money laundering stemming from a fraudulent timeshare resale scheme.
A man shot in the neck while driving on Interstate 15 near Valley of Fire State Park earlier this week was targeted as part of a murder conspiracy, Metro Police said Friday.
The Federal Aviation Administration has revoked the license of a pilot involved in the May crash of an experimental fighter jet near the Boulder City Airport that killed two people.
Metro Police are stepping up enforcement to crack down on drunk driving during the Thanksgiving holiday and will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint Wednesday to catch impaired drivers.
An overnight fire destroyed a North Las Vegas home but caused no injuries, fire officials said Friday. North Las Vegas firefighters responded shortly after 1 a.m. to the blaze at 612 Casa Del Norte.
Morning showers Friday dropped trace amounts of rain throughout the valley, but Las Vegans can look forward to a mostly sunny fall weekend going forward.
From turkey drives to toy giveaways, local nonprofit organizations are gearing up for a busy holiday season, a time when the struggles of Southern Nevada's neediest families often are most acutely felt. Around town, nonprofits are launching holiday-specific programs and expanding year-round services to meet increased demand. “We provide more. The holidays can be hard when you’re by yourself or on the street. They seem to be the time when that weighs heavier on you,” said John Fogal, director of development at the Las Vegas Rescue Mission.
More than 2 million bulbs will illuminate the night sky above the northern Las Vegas Valley starting Friday as the Glittering Lights holiday display returns to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway for a third year.
Despite repeated attempts over the past decades to create a plan to curb carbon emissions on a global scale, international efforts to stymie the growing threat of climate change have largely fallen short, Brookings Institution Fellow Joshua Meltzer said during a lecture at UNLV Tuesday night.
After several months of increases, gas prices in Nevada are starting to fall in advance of the winter months, according to data released Tuesday by the AAA auto club. Statewide, the average price of a gallon of gasoline decreased 25 cents from last month to $3.68.
The number of suicides among children in Clark County more than doubled from 2010 to 2011, according to a new study released Tuesday by UNLV's Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy.
Even as Bonanza High School teacher and coach Joe Cap fought for his life in a Las Vegas hospital, he couldn’t take his mind off his volleyball team. “I’d been text messaging him, providing him updates on scores from girls volleyball games,” said Bonanza’s athletic director Derek Stafford. “He was talking about making it to Senior Night against Bishop Gorman.” Cap never got a chance to see his team take the court on Senior Night.
A man is dead after apparently being shot early Friday through a window at an apartment in northeast Las Vegas, Metro Police said. Officers responded to reports of gunshots around 12:20 a.m. at an apartment complex in the 2900 block of Sandy Lane.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office has identified the man fatally shot by police after a standoff that ended Wednesday morning. Justin Hoey, a 36-year-old Las Vegas resident, died of multiple gunshot wounds, the Coroner’s Office said.
A man shot by police after he reportedly pointed a gun at them while trying to break into a car has left the hospital and been taken to jail, where he awaits a December arraignment.
A new voter-approved law requiring Southern California porn performers to wear condoms while filming sex scenes could be a boon for the adult film industry in Las Vegas.
Plumbers working with a torch on a hot water heater accidentally started a fire at a Las Vegas apartment Friday that caused about $50,000 damage, Las Vegas Fire and Rescue officials said.
A man who was being evicted from his Las Vegas apartment Friday morning is dead, shot by police after a series of events that included him grabbing a bystander as a hostage and holding knives to the woman’s throat, authorities reported.
Clark County District Judge Steven Jones pleaded not guilty to federal fraud charges Thursday afternoon and was released on his own recognizance pending his January trial, according to the office of Nevada U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden.
The bar is stocked, the dance floor is polished and the mechanical bull is ready to ride at the new Town Square location of Stoney’s Rockin’ Country bar, which celebrates its grand opening tonight.
A minivan struck a 21-year-old man Wednesday morning in North Las Vegas, sending him to the hospital in critical condition, North Las Vegas Police said.
It could have been the perfect crime. In the early morning of Oct. 10, a man walked into the Venetian casino and walked out unnoticed less than half an hour later with $1.6 million in stolen chips and cash stuffed into a plastic bag.
Attractive, young torcedoras roll handmade cigars at corporate events, private parties
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012
In a dimly lit room 44 stories above the Strip on a recent Sunday night, employees from a computer technology company wander about, sipping cocktails, eating sushi rolls and enjoying breathtaking views of the valley. At a table tucked along the wall, Katrina Kelley pulls out a bag of Connecticut shade tobacco and positions a leaf on a circular stone tablet. She spritzes the leaf with water and begins shaping it using a chaveta, a blade used to cut tobacco.
Over the past year, thousands of Nevadans have taken to the streets, manned phone banks and stood in parking lots in hopes of helping their preferred presidential candidate find his way to the White House. With less than two weeks until the election, the end is in sight for these campaign volunteers. But with the race between President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney so close, volunteers are ramping up the enthusiasm and putting in extra hours to help make the final push to victory.
For decades, Nevada served as the epicenter for the nation’s nuclear arms testing program, hosting more than 1,000 nuclear detonations since 1951 at the test site north of Las Vegas. The state also serves as the central repository for all the information and artifacts related to the country’s nuclear testing program after the Atomic Testing Museum on the UNLV campus was designated a national museum at the end of 2011. On Friday, the museum celebrated its new status with a dedication ceremony featuring Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other federal officials.
A Metro Police marijuana task force raided a home Thursday morning in an upscale Henderson neighborhood, officials said. Police were seen outside a home on Enchanted River Drive near Stephanie Street in the gated MacDonald Highlands community.
South by Southwest, the massively popular set of movie, music and technology conferences staged annually in Austin, Texas, is expanding next year to Las Vegas with a new event focused on technology startup companies.
It’s an hour until sundown and Warren Ross is busy turning himself into a killer. The 45-year-old father and church volunteer applied his face makeup before heading to the Freakling Brothers' trio of haunted houses.
Nevada drivers are putting down their cell phones and focusing on the road more, thanks in part to a ban on texting or talking on the phone while driving instituted in 2011, according to a study released Friday.
Gary Lee Hosey Jr. admits responsibility for the accident last month that killed four people waiting at a bus stop but denies he was driving while impaired, his attorney said Friday after a hearing in Las Vegas Justice Court. During the court appearance, Dayvid Figler, Hosey’s attorney, waived his client’s right to a preliminary hearing, meaning the case against Hosey will be heard in Clark County District Court.
Officials at the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area are considering rule changes that could open new parts of the park for rock climbers and other outdoor enthusiasts.