A Southern Nevada task force removed more than $7.4 million worth of marijuana plants from a remote area of Mount Charleston during a recent raid, Metro Police officials said today.
Metro Police is asking for the public’s assistance in locating an 80-year-old Las Vegas man suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and missing since Tuesday. In a news release issued Thursday, Metro said John Collier was last seen walking about 9 a.m. Tuesday in the area of Buffalo and Vegas drives in northwest Las Vegas.
Reno. Las Vegas. Guess which one didn’t make businessweek.com's list of America’s top 50 cities? The rankings were based on leisure opportunities, educational attributes, economic factors, crime statistics and air quality ratings.
The Sun’s yearlong project chronicling efforts to improve Clark County’s most-troubled public schools has been named the best story of the year by the Nevada Press Association. Judges said the project, “The Turnaround: Inside Clark County Schools,” “is what newspapers were meant to do.” They congratulated the paper for applying long-form storytelling to a digital format, and using videos and graphics, to offer a broad review “of complex matters that are at the core of the public interest.” “If more newspapers emulated the Sun, our republic would be well served,” judges concluded.
It's time to decide who will win the monthly Smithereens Cartoon Caption Contest, which features the election race between Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Shelly Berkley for the Senate.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will attend a victory rally Friday afternoon at the Cox Pavilion at UNLV. Details about ticketing have not yet been announced, but the rally is scheduled for 2:05 p.m., according to Romney's campaign.
Traffic is slow-going on the westbound Las Vegas Beltway to northbound Interstate 15 after a tractor-trailer rolled over and spilled a load of lumber on an access ramp in the area.
The Clark County Coroner's Office has identified the last two victims killed in a horrific crash that killed four early Thursday at a bus stop in Las Vegas.
Police are awaiting positive identification of a body found Thursday afternoon at a water reclamation area near Flamingo Road and Stephanie Street, but it is unknown at this time if it was that of Calletano Lopez, the Desert Rose Golf Course landscaper who has been missing since late Tuesday.
A day after the Las Vegas Valley recorded it largest single-day rainfall in September, the focus for many shifted to cleanup. The aftermath of Tuesday’s rainstorms — the official National Weather Service measurement taken at McCarran International Airport was 1.18 inches of rain — stretched cleaning crews thin Wednesday, said Joe Rajchel, department general services manager at Henderson’s Public Works’ Department.
Metro Police and volunteers suspended search efforts around 3 p.m. Wednesday for a Desert Rose Golf Course landscaper who went missing during Tuesday afternoon’s deluge.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's frustration with Republican Sen. Dean Heller over Internet poker legislation has escalated another notch, with Nevada's senior senator telling Heller that he is failing to represent Nevada in the high-stakes effort to protect the state's gaming industry.
Downpours from a slow-moving thunderstorm that drenched the Las Vegas Valley this afternoon triggered road closures, twice the normal number of accidents, rescues of stranded motorists at flooded intersections, delayed landings at McCarran International Airport and college students floating across campus at UNLV. It was the wettest September day in the region's history.
The two Clark County School District teachers accused of having sex with a student during the 2011-12 academic year at Brown Junior High School are free after posting bail early Tuesday.
President Barack Obama will make his seventh trip to Nevada this year, and his second official campaign stop in the Silver State in less than a month, next week when he visits Las Vegas.
Seventeen-year-old Melissa Duran is safe and sound, Henderson Police say. About 21 hours after Duran was kidnapped from her Henderson home, police served a search warrant at an apartment where she was located.
Drivers in the eastern valley might want to avoid South Nellis Boulevard overnight Thursday while crews construct a new concrete deck on a pedestrian bridge. Clark County officials said Nellis Boulevard between Charleston Boulevard and Mohave Avenue would be closed from 9 p.m. Thursday to 5:30 a.m. Friday. Traffic will be detoured during construction.
A Henderson man was sentenced Wednesday to 366 days in federal prison for firing a machine gun in the backyard of his Anthem neighborhood home on New Year’s Eve 2010.
Josue E. Nunez had the keys to a burgundy Pontiac GTO 6.0, a credit card to fill the gas tank and was in his fourth day of moving around freely, having cut off a bracelet he was required to wear as part of his house arrest on DUI charges. But Metro Police say Nunez, 28, got the GTO’s keys and the credit card Sunday night after he shot the car’s owner, Steven Blair, outside a North Las Vegas strip club.
The winner of the August edition of the Smithereens Cartoon Caption Contest is vegastony, with: "Do you see the size of those bills? Now I'm really afraid of all that election junk mail!"
Gov. Brian Sandoval has held on to his prime-time speaking slot at the Republican National Convention this week after Tropical Storm Isaac forced the cancellation of the convention’s opening night.
The mother of the 10-year-old boy who suffered an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head last week is accused of trying to hide the gun and pretend she didn’t know the boy had been shot.
Publisher Brian Greenspun: 'We wish him nothing but success'
Friday, Aug. 17, 2012
Columnist Jon Ralston, Nevada's leading political commentator, is leaving the Las Vegas Sun after 12 years to create his own Internet-based commentary platform, Ralston and Sun Publisher Brian Greenspun announced today.
"By picking Rep. Paul Ryan, Governor Romney has doubled down on his commitment to gut Social Security and end Medicare as we know it," Senate Marity Leader Harry Reid said.
The latest news on the landing of the NASA spacecraft Curiosity on Mars tonight will be visible on the Strip, thanks to the world's largest digital billboard.
Mike Smith drew the cartoon. You submitted the text for the word bubble. The Sun picked the best five entries. And you picked the winner: "And I said, 'Sure honey, you can use the family room to start a little business.' "
Three people are hospitalized with stab wounds in what North Las Vegas Police are calling an overnight attempted murder/attempted suicide. Officers responding to reports of multiple stabbing victims arrived shortly after 3:30 Saturday morning at a house in the 2600 block of East Tonopah Street, near North Civic Center Drive and Lake Mead Boulevard.
Federal authorities have filed charges against a former Silverado High School softball coach accused of having an affair with one of his players and exchanging sexually explicit text messages and photographs with her.
A 2-year-old boy was found in a backyard pool at 9:36 a.m. Sunday in the 100 block of Mallard Avenue, according to Las Vegas Fire & Rescue spokesman Tim Szymanski.
You submitted captions for Mike Smith's cartoons. You voted on the best. And the winner you picked is: "So this is where the I-15 express lanes end!" submitted by user vegastony.
A longtime Las Vegas Strip nightclub operator who was at the middle of a federal tip-concealing probe was sentenced Wednesday to three years of probation and eight months of house arrest.
Nicknames, it seems, are making a comeback in the Las Vegas law enforcement world. On Thursday, Metro Police released information on the “Mustache Bandit,” who is suspected of robbing several sandwich shops and small-electronics stores in the valley, and Henderson Police announced the arrest of the “Crowbar Robber,” suspected on two occasions of entering a business, pointing a gun at the clerk and ordering the clerks to the floor, then attempting to open the store’s safe with a crowbar.
Failing tire tread is the suspected cause of a single-vehicle accident Wednesday afternoon on Interstate 15 in the southern valley that killed a California woman and injured five others.
Metro Police is instituting a hiring freeze as it faces a potential deficit of nearly $70 million. Official announcement of the freeze is expected next week. It was first report reported this week by KSNV-TV, which received a copy of a video message from Sheriff Doug Gillespie to Metro officers.
Efforts to increase the graduation rate in the Clark County School District seem to be paying off. School District officials today said they anticipated nearly 15,000 high school seniors would be graduating this year.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is known as a defensive wizard in the ring, but he hasn't been able to avoid being hit in a different arena — civil courts. Here's a glance at some of the lawsuits that have been filed against the Las Vegas boxer.
What should a marriage counselor tell a couple divided by politics? According to you, the Sun's readers, he would say they can live in peace. Just put both bumper stickers on the car.
A man involved in nine armed robberies of Las Vegas businesses over a three-day period in 2010 was sentenced Thursday to 237 years in federal prison, authorities announced. Jason Wiley, 28, of Las Vegas, was convicted in November 2011 of one count of conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce, nine counts of interference with commerce by armed robbery, and 10 counts of use of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.