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Hope you weren’t getting used to those temperatures in the 70s and 80s that Las Vegas has enjoyed the past several days. If so, Tuesday could be a little jolting. A cold front is expected to push across the Mojave Desert this evening, and forecasters say to expect Tuesday’s high temperature to be …
Sony Pictures’ sequel to “Mall Cop,” set to be filmed in Las Vegas, is the premiere recipient of Nevada’s new film tax credit. Filming is expected to take place at...
A small dog died in an apartment fire late Thursday in the area of Maryland Parkway and Flamingo Road, just north of the UNLV campus. Firefighters responded at 11:30 p.m. to the blaze at...
A 62-year-old Las Vegas man injured last month in a motorcycle accident west of Las Vegas has died, the Nevada Highway Patrol reported today. Robert Neal Parsons, Las Vegas, was traveling north on State Route 160 about 1:45 p.m. Feb. 20 when his Harley Davidson left the roadway.
The first homicide of 2014 in North Las Vegas is under investigation today. Police say the victim is a 54-year-old man, found dead in his apartment in the 2400 block of Webster Street.
Two schools locked down earlier today are now reopened, but standoff closes a third
Monday, March 3, 2014
Three Las Vegas Schools were locked down today, the first two because of a manhunt in Henderson for a person suspected of driving a stolen car, and now ...
Charges have been filed against a suspect in a January homicide outside a Las Vegas strip club. Christopher Joseph Mallett, 27, is in custody at Clark County Detention Center after his arrest Wednesday.
Backers of the effort to bring the 2016 Republican National Convention to Las Vegas have Thursday morning circled on their calendar. That’s when the Republican National Committee will announce what cities made the final cut for the right to host the quadrennial GOP gathering.
Green Valley Ranch Resort in Henderson is preparing to replace its marquee along the 215 Beltway with something that promises to be easier to maintain.
Jane Poynter is joining the space-tourism race. The part-time Las Vegas resident has opened a small office in downtown Las Vegas in support of World View Experience, a venture that by 2016 would tow tourists to the upper limits of the atmosphere by helium balloon. The Las Vegas office eventually would be expanded into a sales office, but for now, it also doubles as a base from which to explore possible launch sites in Nevada.
The mystery is over: Floyd Mayweather's opponent this spring will be Marcos Maidana. "I will be fighting Marcos Maidana May 3rd on Pay-per-view Showtime/CBS," Mayweather announced on his Twitter feed this afternoon.
The man accused of shooting five people during a wedding reception this past weekend was arraigned today on a laundry list of felony charges, including four counts of attempted murder.
Both responding Bureau of Land Management officers fired their weapons in the fatal shooting of a pedestrian last week near Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
Prosecutors today added murder to the charges a Nellis Air Force Base noncommissioned officer faces in a case involving his son. Three-month-old Aiden James Leach was airlifted on Feb. 1 to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in critical condition. The baby boy died Monday night.
The man charged as a co-conspirator in an alleged arson fire last month at a Las Vegas pet shop is back in Nevada and behind bars in the Clark County Detention Center.
The sixth largest jackpot in U.S. history is on the line with tonight’s Powerball lottery drawing. Officials with the multistate lottery game estimate the jackpot at $400 million.
The mercury didn’t reach a record for a second-consecutive day, but the 78-degree high measured today at McCarran International Airport was the third-warmest Presidents Day ever in Las Vegas.
Metro Police say shortly before 1 a.m., a 2005 Hyundai Sonata was traveling along West Ogden Avenue near South City Parkway when the driver lost control of the vehicle at a curve.
A familiar location sits atop a new list of Las Vegas’ five most dangerous intersections: Lamb Boulevard and Charleston Boulevard. Metro Police released the latest incarnation of its list this week, and as with similar lists from 2012 and 2013, the intersection of Lamb and Charleston again had the highest number of injury accidents. It also was the only one with the dubious distinction of being on lists in 2012 and 2013. But drivers wanting to avoid injury accidents also might steer clear of Tropicana Avenue, which had three intersections on the top-five list.
A Las Vegas man was killed this morning after he failed to pull over for a traffic stop and instead sped away, losing control of his car, which overturned and slammed into a building, Metro Police said.
The man accused of setting fire to a Las Vegas pet shop last month will be returning to Nevada after his arrest last week near Chicago. Kirk Bills has waived extradition and will be returned to Nevada, according to Beatriz Aguirre, assistant public information officer in the Nevada Attorney General's Office.
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Motorists filling up their gas tanks in North Las Vegas are benefiting from the lowest average price in Nevada – $3.25 a gallon for regular unleaded – according to the AAA Nevada monthly gas survey.
A drive to raise money for construction of a new academic building for UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration kicked off today with the announcement of a $2.5 million gift.
The man accused of plotting with a Las Vegas business owner to set fire to the woman's pet shop last month has been arrested near Chicago, authorities said late Friday.
Against a local and national media landscape characterized by decline, the Greenspun Media Group is bucking the trend and will grow with today’s launch of The Sunday, a free weekly news publication.
Las Vegas is getting a professional sports team. No, it’s not one of those from the four major sports the area's hoped to attract the past decade. Las Vegas is the new home to the Mylan World TeamTennis league's Sacramento Capitals franchise, the WTT announced today, and the Las Vegas Neon will play seven home matches at the Darling Tennis Center from July 6 to July 27.
Christie Vanover, a spokeswoman for the National Park Service at Lake Mead, said shortly after 10 a.m. authorities responded to reports of a single-vehicle accident involving a motorcycle on North Shore Road, about six miles east of Callville Bay Road.
A female pedestrian was killed this evening when she was hit by a pickup truck while walking along the U.S. 95 northbound off-ramp to Valley View Boulevard.
Feeling a little parched? You should. Monday was the 47th consecutive day without precipitation in Las Vegas, as measured at McCarran International Airport.
A 42-year-old Henderson man is in custody, accused of armed robbery at four businesses over a three-week period. Brandon Sprout, 42, was arrested Friday at the Palm Villas apartments.
Gasoline prices inched upward an average of 3 cents a gallon in Nevada compared to what drivers paid in December, according to AAA’s monthly fuel gauge report.
A man who tried to rob a fast-food restaurant by pretending to have a gun fled after nobody would cooperate with his demands, according to Metro Police.
A piece of debris on Interstate 15 this morning caused a five-vehicle crash that included a car that overturned and landed on a Nevada Highway Patrol cruiser. Two people suffered minor injuries, authorities said.