A new partnership between Myspace and Panasonic announced Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show is looking to redefine how people interact with their televisions.
Former president speaks on the value of diversity and tolerance
Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012
At a time when the country may seem like it is moving past many of its prejudices, former President Bill Clinton urged a crowd gathered in a ballroom at Caesars Palace on Saturday night to keep up the fight against intolerance, racism and bigotry.
A fire at an apartment complex Saturday started by food left cooking on the stove has resulted in $25,000 in damages and the death of one family's poodle.
Police have identified two men arrested for their involvement in a botched pawn shop robbery that led to an armed standoff in a North Las Vegas neighborhood Friday afternoon.
Police responding to a robbery call at a pawn shop chased two armed men spotted fleeing the business and arrested them after a standoff, North Las Vegas Police said. Shortly before noon, police were called to a robbery in progress at a SuperPawn on Las Vegas Boulevard.
The 62-year-old man who died after crashing on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle Thursday night in the northwest valley has been identified by the Clark County Coroner's Office as Michael Golden, of Las Vegas.
Less than a year ago, students at Chaparral High School gathered to protest changes implemented by new Superintendent Dwight Jones to improve student performance. On Thursday, the mood outside the school was more celebratory, as the school’s band and cheerleaders formed a welcoming party for Jones.
The Clark County School Board elected new leaders and gave Superintendent Dwight Jones a positive review during its annual organization meeting and workshop on Wednesday.
A major six-month renovation of thousands of rooms at the Bellagio has been completed, a hotel executive said Wednesday. The $70 million job started in June, and 2,568 rooms in the hotel’s main tower have been updated.
A new trial date will be set next month for a man charged in a 2009 shooting in the east Las Vegas Valley that left one man dead and two others injured.
2012 receives a warm welcome from dozens of celebrities, thousands of fireworks and more than 314,000 people partying up and down the Strip and Fremont Street.
With renovations of the Clark County Detention Center scheduled to start soon, Metro Police have begun moving hundreds of low-risk inmates to a different facility in northeast Las Vegas.
More than 100 Sears and Kmart stores are targeted for closure after poor sales during the holiday season, but so far none of those closures will happen in Las Vegas, according to a list released by Sears Holding Corp. Thursday.
With New Year's Eve fast approaching, Metro Police held a press conference Thursday to outline the details of their enforcement plans and to encourage valley residents not to drink and drive.
An apartment fire in Henderson early Thursday sent one person to the hospital and caused approximately $50,000 in damage, the Henderson Fire Department said.
Flying device invented by French watercraft racer propels tethered fliers above water surface
Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011
With a quick squeeze of the throttle, Franky Zapata shot out across Lake Las Vegas Wednesday afternoon and began dipping and diving as he floated as high as 20 feet above the water using a specially built piece of equipment he calls a "flyboard" at Lake Las Vegas.
A collision between a motorcycle and a car in the west valley Wednesday morning snarled traffic near Charleston Boulevard and Cimarron Road and sent one person to the hospital, Metro Police said.
Metro Police have arrested a woman they say is the girlfriend of a man who was stabbed and later died today. Chamel Smith, 29, has been booked at the Clark County Detention Center and charged with murder with a deadly weapon, police said.
Metro Police officers spend countless hours training to spot and pull over drunken drivers. On Friday, one driver who allegedly had been drinking made Metro's job a little easier after rear-ending a patrol car in the western part of the valley.
Early adopters of electric cars will get an extra perk from Las Vegas City Hall at the start of the new year when a program allowing qualified vehicles to park downtown for free is launched.
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was sentenced to six months in jail on a misdemeanor count of battery constituting domestic violence after pleading guilty Wednesday in Las Vegas Justice Court. Mayweather, 34, will have to serve at least 90 days of the sentence in custody at the Clark County Detention Center.
An ordinance allowing pawnshops to open along Las Vegas Boulevard between Sahara and Charleston avenues met resistance Tuesday morning from a Las Vegas City Council committee and was delayed for more than a month to allow staff time to tweak the bill.
Amid a sea of neon signs recalling Las Vegas’ heritage, officials from the city and the Neon Museum talked about construction of a visitors center they hope will help the site grow into a key piece of downtown’s revitalization. The $1.5 million project will see the historic La Concha motel lobby reimagined as a welcoming space to the Neon Boneyard.
Details released by Metro Police in Monday’s shooting of Stanley Gibson, a 43-year-old Gulf War veteran, show Gibson was shot by an officer in a botched attempt to force him from his car using pepper spray and non-lethal beanbag rounds.
Extra officers from all of the valley’s major law enforcement agencies will be on the streets the next two weeks to crack down on drunken driving during the holiday season.
A tentative plea deal has been reached between prosecutors and a 20-year-old woman who is one of six defendants charged in the robbery and slaying of a Las Vegas high school teacher, a defense attorney said.
Doctor was at the center of Las Vegas hepatitis C case
Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011
Attorneys for Dipak Desai, the Las Vegas doctor at the center of the hepatitis scare in 2007-08, will be able to present one witness of their own to rebut findings from the state’s medical experts that Desai is competent to stand trial, a Clark County District Court judge ruled Tuesday. Desai’s competency hearing is scheduled for Jan. 27, but on Tuesday attorneys gathered to discuss the scope of evidence that will be allowed to be presented.
A preliminary hearing for a man charged with sexually assaulting a maid at a Strip hotel in November was delayed Monday to allow more time for attorneys to gather evidence. David Ferren, 19, appeared in Las Vegas Justice Court on Monday morning.
One city employee, earning $121,000, got $25,000 bump
Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011
Pay increases given to 42 Las Vegas city employees is raising some eyebrows as the cash-strapped city deals with a multimillion-dollar budget deficit. The city recently gave employees identified in a salary compensation study pay increases averaging $6,302 a year.
State AFL-CIO holds candlelight vigil to pressure Nevada House members
Friday, Dec. 9, 2011
More than 50 valley residents took to the streets in downtown Las Vegas Thursday night, rallying and holding a vigil urging Congress to pass an extension of unemployment benefits.
The death penalty trial has been delayed almost a year for a Henderson man charged in the shooting death of a man during a 2010 robbery attempt in a North Las Vegas casino restroom.
The City of Las Vegas will likely face an approximately $7 million hole in its general fund budget during the next fiscal year, but city officials are calling the deficit “manageable” compared to previous years.
Those failing to comply could face fines, jail time
Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011
The Las Vegas City Council approved an ordinance Wednesday that will require owners of vacant properties in foreclosure to register with the city or face fines and potential jail time.
Former NBA basketball player Antoine Walker was sentenced Tuesday to five years of probation and ordered to pay more than $750,000 in gambling debts to three Las Vegas casinos. Walker, 35, pleaded guilty in June to felony bad check charges after he failed to pay back gambling debts from 2009 at Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood and Red Rock Resort.
Las Vegas technology company Switch announced plans Friday to build a new 300,000-square-foot data center campus in the northwest valley, enabling the company to offer cutting-edge data storage solutions to its roster of Fortune 500 and technology clients.
A man charged with fatally shooting a Las Vegas man and injuring his girlfriend had his trial delayed Thursday for the second time in two months in Clark County District Court.
A trial set to start next week for Thomas Mendiola, a Metro Police officer charged with supplying a gun to a convicted felon, has been delayed until April.
A judge said a plea deal reached for former Deputy District Attorney David Schubert in a cocaine possession case is too lenient and stepped aside rather than sentence him to probation. “You’re getting a better deal than people you’ve prosecuted, and I don’t think that’s just and proper,” said Clark County District Court Judge Douglas Herndon, who recused himself from the case.