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The Clark County coroner's office has identified a 24-year-old man who police say was killed when he intervened in a neighborhood argument.

LAS VEGAS -- A 39-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman are being held in Las Vegas pending extradition to New Mexico on allegations they swindled people out of tens of thousands of dollars selling racehorses ...

While in Reba's care, Barbra Jean's pooch, Brock, goes missing. Hoping to find him, Barbra Jean goes to a psychic, who tells her that the dog was killed by someone in the family.

Motorists heading for Las Vegas Tuesday or Wednesday mornings should delay their trips.

Caption: Bette Midler during a live taping of 'The View' at Caesars Palace Las Vegas, Nevada .... BETTE MIDLER is celebrating after setting eyes on her wedding photographs for the first time, 23 years after she ...

A single-engine plane crash Saturday afternoon outside of Las Vegas may have claimed the life of county supervisor candidate Erik Nunn, his wife and two other people.

Lawmakers convene this morning at 9 a.m. for the 24th special session of the Nevada Legislature with a plan they hope will have them finished in a day and a half.

Air quality officials are advising southern Nevada residents that smoke from California wildfires is again creating a haze in the Las Vegas area.

CARSON CITY, Nev. - A Henderson legislator was accepting political contributions during a special session of the Legislature in violation of state law.

RENO, Nev. - A group of disaffected Republicans held a renegade state convention Saturday and exposed divisions that threaten to dog the party up to the national party convention and beyond.

Facing an abysmal approval rating, Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons is shaking up his top-level staff.

Four people were killed when a plane crashed and exploded into flames Saturday after apparently striking power lines in a forested area about 40 miles northwest of the Las Vegas Strip, authorities said.

Two people accused of swindling at least 20 people out of nearly $200,000 are behind bars tonight in Las Vegas.

LAS VEGAS - Southern Nevada health officials may face a financial squeeze after Congress failed to pass a $5 million intended to help deal with the hepatitis C outbreak in Las Vegas.

The Mandalay Hotel is all set for another Mexican versus Filipino rivalry--the fight between David Diaz and Manny Pacquiao for the WBC Lightweight Championship belt.

LAS VEGAS - A Clark County District Court judge is off the ethics hook after a public apology for making improper political donations in 2004.

Gov. Jim Gibbons and Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, both took their shots in speeches Thursday night as the governor officially called the 24th special session of the Legislature.

LAS VEGAS -- To mark National HIV Testing Day Thursday, three groups are joining with Mayor Oscar Goodman to offer free HIV testing.

A Las Vegas mother faces life in prison after she was convicted of stabbing her 7-year-old daughter to death and slashing her 8-year-old son in February 2003.

More of the Valley's homeless will have a place to sleep at night. The Las Vegas Rescue Mission got 95 new beds Thursday.

Nevada lawmakers and leading political experts were divided when asked if Gov. Jim Gibbons made a strong case for the special session of the Legislature in his statewide televised speech Thursday night.

Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a 5-day round-up of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution.

A Las Vegas judge reviewed charging documents and scheduled a Friday court date for a man to face allegations he robbed and beat NFL player Javon Walker, a court officer said.

In the process of trying to get the crystal back, Kara is captured and sedated with a kryptonite serum; Clark follows and tries to release her, but not before the serum has caused both to have a vision of ...

O.J. Simpson says he's being victimized by an ambitious Nevada prosecutor pressing an armed robbery case that even the alleged victims don't want to pursue.

O.J. Simpson's defense team has lost a bid to include several questions about how prospective jurors feel about the former football star in a lengthy questionnaire being prepared for his Las Vegas robbery and ...

Fire broke out at a construction site on the Las Vegas Strip today. It started just before 2 p.m. on the site of the Fontainebleu condo project at Las Vegas Boulevard and Riviera.

A jury in the Central Criminal Court has been hearing that the lethal toxin Ricin was found in the prison cell of a former Las Vegas poker dealer accused of conspiring with a Clare woman to kill her partner and ...

Republican presidential candidate John McCain stumped in the Valley Thursday and opened up his new campaign headquarters.

After fending off ocean drilling critics in California, Republican John McCain on Wednesday stiff-armed opponents of a Nevada nuclear waste repository as he outlined ways to resolve the nation's energy crisis ...

Police have made an arrest in last week's robbery and beating of Oakland Raiders receiver Javon Walker in Las Vegas.

Barack Obama said Tuesday that evangelical leader James Dobson was "making stuff up" when he accused the presumed Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible.Dobson used his Focus on the Family ...

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., met Tuesday with the heads of several major airlines to discuss how to bring down fuel costs to avoid spiraling ticket prices and reduced service to Las ...

LAS VEGAS -- Las Vegas police said they've arrested two men in a fatal stabbing in the city's downtown "Naked City" neighborhood.

Finalizing the sale of more than 250 condominium units on the Strip since April would seem sufficient, especially during these daunting economic times.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., talks during a town hall style meeting at the Springs Preserve, a cultural and historic attraction, in Las Vegas, Nevada Tuesday, June 24, 2008.

Former boxer Mike Tyson arrives at a birthday party for mixed martial arts fighter Tito Ortiz hosted by his girlfriend Jenna Jameson at the CatHouse at the Luxor Resort & Casino January 25, 2008 in Las Vegas, ...

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has tapped Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki to serve as his Nevada campaign chairman.

Fri, Jun 20, 2008 Sun Topics Construction Deaths Washington - A report released Thursday by the House Labor Committee shows nearly 70 percent of work-related illnesses and injuries may be going unreported, ...

Station Casinos co-owner and executive Lorenzo Fertitta is stepping down as the company's president to become chairman and CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Clark County air quality officials have issued an advisory about smoke from California wildfires creating a haze in the Las Vegas area.

With the developer forced into bankruptcy, Hugh Smith worries about the $1 million he and a partner sunk into bare lots at Promontory, a half-built, sprawling residence club in a post-Olympic town saturated ...

George Carlin, the influential comedian whose routines used profanity, scatology and absurdity to point out the silliness and hypocrisy of human life, has died.

A Michael Jackson show could be on its way to Las Vegas . The troubled singer is apparently in talks to do either up to 180 smaller shows a year, or to appear in 20 to 30 yearly spectacles that could possibly ...

MGM Mirage Inc. has announced plans for a joint venture on a non-gambling hotel in mainland China.

Dear EarthTalk: I've heard that there are plans to build a large repository for nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain in Nevada, but that plans have been slow and are very controversial.

A newspaper poll shows that most Nevada voters want to fight government plans to build a national nuclear waste dump outside Las Vegas.

FBI officials in Ohio say a 48-year-old man accused of bribing a U.S. military contracting official has fled home detention after a May 27 arrest in Las Vegas.

Senator Barack Obama will visit Las Vegas Tuesday June 24th as part of his Change That Works For You economic tour.

A unanimous Las Vegas City Council torpedoed a liquor license request for the shuttered Crazy Horse Too gentleman's club, which faces a June 30 deadline to reopen or lose the ability to do so.

If the Nevada State Prison is closed, 200 employees of Nevada's oldest continuously operated prison will have to find other work.

Cheap buffets. 99-cent shrimp cocktails. Single-deck blackjack. The list of endangered species in Las Vegas just got longer.

Two young backpackers rationed peanut butter sandwiches and granola bars, growing hungrier as they wandered for six days in the dense vegetation of Denali National Park, they said Thursday.

A woman who was on probation in connection with a fight at a Las Vegas strip club over the 2007 NBA All-Star Weekend has died.

Gov. Jim Gibbons said Friday he's postponing a special session of the Nevada Legislature, scheduled to start on Monday, until the end of next week.

LAS VEGAS - A federal prosecutor says more arrests are expected as part of a mortgage fraud crackdown in Nevada.

Las Vegas Mayor Oscar B. Goodman will join hundreds of mayors from around the nation as they weigh in on issues such as rising gasoline prices, global warming and the foreclosure crisis during the United States ...

Henderson Police Dept. detectives have arrested 30-year-old Jon Jacobs on charges of annoying a minor -- a misdemeanor -- and lewdness with a minor under 14 years old, a felony.

State officials say Nevada's unemployment rate surged a half-percent from April to May, to the highest it's been since May 1994.

Charles Barkley is headed back to the tables in Las Vegas to play in a poker tournament about a month after pledging not to gamble.

June 18, 2008 10 AM Officials in Lincoln County are still trying to determine what led to an apparent murder-suicide of two men from Phoenix whose bodies were found Thursday near a lake in the Pahranagat ...

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- After another vacant home near the North Fifth Street improvement project caught fire, North Las Vegas firefighters are investigating the chance of arson as the cause of the blaze.

A federal grand jury today returned a superseding indictment against a Las Vegas real estate broker and her husband who were charged in March with defrauding federally-insured financial institutions of millions ...

Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons says only a "moron" would accuse him of calling a special session as a political ploy and that Democratic legislators who have criticized the move are "whining." Top Democratic lawmakers ...

LAS VEGAS - Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie is proposing a central Las Vegas police headquarters to consolidate scattered administrative, investigative and laboratory offices under one roof.

Sin City is facing hard times. Soaring fuel prices are forcing airlines to cut flights and jack up fares to this desert oasis.

The conference will take place in New York, NY on June 17-18, 2008. A copy of the slides used at the presentation is available through the Investors page of the Company's website at www.community-bancorp.com. ...

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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced plans Wednesday to gather about 1,700 wild horses from the Nevada range, citing ongoing drought, dwindling forage and an over abundance of animals in three herd ...

Two women missing in Denali National Park and Preserve were located alive and well Wednesday.

The shotgun deaths of two Phoenix men whose bodies were found in a remote wildlife refuge north of Las Vegas was a murder-suicide, a Nevada sheriff said Tuesday.

Four citations were filed against a Las Vegas motorist accused of running into eight pedestrians as they walked on the Strip near MGM Drive early Sunday morning.

A Nevada judge faces a weeklong disciplinary hearing tentatively starting Aug. 4 on claims that he sexually abused a woman when she was a minor, sexually harassed her as an adult, and made racially and sexually ...

Authorities say a construction worker is dead after a fall at Boyd Gaming Corp.'s Echelon resort construction site on the Las Vegas Strip.

Nevada voters favor a 3 percent increase in hotel room taxes to help fund the state's cash-strapped public school system, according to a statewide newspaper poll.

Posted: Wednesday, 11 June 2008 3:25PM Chamber of Commerce Backs School Bond Issue The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce has endorsed a ten-year bond issue for the Clark County School District.

By Frank X. Mullen Jr. * fmullen@rgj.com * June 13, 2008 A federal district court judge Thursday dismissed two lawsuits filed against University of Nevada, Reno officials by a former professor who alleged UNR ...

The cost of catching a cab in Las Vegas this summer may increase because of rising gasoline prices.

LAS VEGAS - The Nevada Supreme Court promised Friday to rule as "promptly and fairly as possible" on a flurry of last-minute ballot, candidate and term limit challenges that could affect how Aug.

ANTALYA, Turkey : Yelena Kasyanova booked her trip at a local travel agency in about as much time it takes to drop by the market for a few groceries.

Police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run near downtown Las Vegas. The accident happened around 6:30 p.m. Friday at Maryland Parkway near Stewart Avenue.

Trial has been postponed for a man believed to have poisoned himself by keeping the exotic toxin ricin in his motel room, just off the Las Vegas Strip.

Overall enrollment of first-time freshmen dropped at Nevada's two universities after tougher admission standards took effect in 2006, with minorities affected the most, the Board of Regents was told.

A local tragedy that didn't have to happen: A 4-year-old boy was found dead outside his family's home Monday morning after being left in a vehicle for 17 hours, Las Vegas police said.

This photo provided by NBC shows moderator Tim Russert during the Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the Cashman Center in Las Vegas, Nevada in this Jan.

The clock is ticking as Nevada's highest court scrambles to make decisions affecting our upcoming election.

It's not just the housing market that's feeling the effects of a sluggish economy.

Michael Jackson may relaunch his career as a Las Vegas act, thanks to the private equity group that recently bought the loan on his Neverland Ranch in California to help the pop star avert foreclosure.

Music artist Kid Rock arrives at a dual birthday party for singer Stacy 'Fergie' Ferguson and director/writer Quentin Tarantino at The Beatles Revolution Lounge at the Mirage Hotel & Casino March 27, 2008 in ...

Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons is calling a special session of the state Legislature to delay pay raises for government workers in efforts to ease a budget crisis and revenue shortfall expected to top $1 billion by ...

A new poll is giving Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons low marks for job performance, but not because of his messy divorce proceedings.

A rural Nevada sheriff is investigating the deaths of two men found shot dead in the Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge about 80 miles north of Las Vegas.

AP) -- A discipline panel's censure of a Las Vegas judge who had a woman handcuffed and jailed for just over two hours in 2003 to assure her boyfriend appeared in court on traffic charges was erased Thursday by ...

LAS VEGAS -- Clark County air quality and environmental officials have issued a warning about high winds and blowing dust in the Las Vegas area.

LAS VEGAS -- Nevada government officials and leaders in the state's construction industry said they're planning to have a round table discussion later this month to talk about safety on job sites.

CARSON CITY . - Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons, other state officials and key state lawmakers said Thursday they'd work together to deal with a budget shortfall now certain to top $1 billion by mid-2009 - but clashed ...

LAS VEGAS - A former commander of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan said Nevada needs to find a way to bear the cost of homeland security if federal funding is cut to states.

The estranged wife of wrestler Hulk Hogan is asking a Florida judge to cite him for allegedly not paying his share of a $4.2 million Las Vegas condo.

A former University Medical Center employee is facing felony charges alleging she skimmed tens of thousands of dollars she was handling for the county-run hospital.