After three hours of discussion Thursday, the Regional Transportation Commission continued to reach a stalemate on the nation's largest public transit contract.Commissioner Chris ...
The man charged with killing his grade school friend's 15-year-old daughter in a drug-related robbery was ruled competent Thursday, setting the stage for him to plead guilty in the death ...
The Nevada Wildlife Commission is being asked to ban hunting for sage grouse statewide as a way to help keep the bird off the federal list of threatened and endangered ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Democrat Kate Marshall is betting that senior citizens' concerns about Medicare will be her winning ticket in Nevada's special House election. Marshall plans her second ...
Seeking to align himself with a public beleaguered by economic uncertainty and frustrated by Washington, President Barack Obama declared Thursday: "There is nothing wrong with our country. ...
The longtime girlfriend of reputed Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger (BUHL'-jur) has been indicted for allegedly helping him hide during his 16 years on the ...
Three environmental groups are suing to block planting of genetically-engineered crops on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service land in eight Southern ...
Negotiations stalled into a stalemate Wednesday between Clark County's teachers union and the school district, putting as many as 800 workers at risk for layoffs.The Clark County School ...
VIENNA -- A famed Austrian museum has fired an employee for washing his hands and face with his urine. Alfred Zoppelt says he was fired after 23 years of working as an attendant at the Belvedere, a ...
In this undated photo provided by Brigham and Women's Hospital, Charla Nash is seen after her May 2011, face transplant at the hospital. The Connecticut woman was mauled by a chimpanzee in ...
ANTIOCH, Ill. -- A boy fishing in a northern Illinois lake hooked -- and then lost -- what he thought was a human foot, but a search determined the appendage had belonged to a mannequin.The ...
UNLV’S Chace Stanback slaps hands with teammate Justin Hawkins during their Mountain West Conference game against Wyoming Saturday, February 26, 2011 at the ...
Belmont Shore’s Katin Reinhardt takes a shot Friday, July 22, 2011 during the Las Vegas Fab 48 tournament at Bishop Gorman. He made four of five field goal attempts in the victory over Juice ...
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney faced a rowdy crowd at the Iowa State Fair Thursday, with people interrupting his answers to chant "Wall Street greed" and him snapping ...
Three siblings wanted in Florida and Georgia are being held on $1.3 million bond each in Colorado on charges of attempted murder and assault on a police ...
A report by Florida's child welfare agency says Casey Anthony failed to protect her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, which ultimately resulted in the child's death. But Anthony will not face ...
Wall Street's wildest week since 2008 continued with another 300-point move for the Dow on Thursday. This time, stocks shot up after investors saw small signs that the economy isn't headed ...
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's appointment Thursday of three Democrats to Congress' new debt-reduction supercommittee completes the roster of a panel whose members are already being ...
A Nevada judge is giving defunct community organizing group ACORN a maximum $5,000 fine for its part in an illegal voter registration scheme in the 2008 election ...
Nevada state Sen. Shirley Breeden is hosting a public memorial for her stepfather after he was killed in what appears to be a drug-related crash in Las Vegas.The Henderson Democrat said Wednesday ...
SAN FRANCISCO-- The lawyer for a San Francisco woman charged with breaking into the hotel room of "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek says his client is a prostitute, not a thief.The San ...
Dozens of students from UNLV and other universities presented the results of their research projects this week. The university participates in federally funded programs that allow undergraduate ...
The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell last week below 400,000 for the first time in four months, a sign that the job market may be improving slowly after a recent ...
The bad news started sinking in when cast and crew members of "Viva Elvis" were told all things Elvis will be leaving the building.The hoop skirt-wearing dancers from the bobby-socks era. ...
An 18-year-old man was arrested this week in connection with the slaying of a 41-year-old man whose body was found last month under the Sahara overpass.Michael Martinez is facing a recommended ...
Customers wait for their orders in front of a Slidin' Thru food truck parked Wednesday on Durango Drive near the Las Vegas Beltway. Some restaurant operators in the city of Las Vegas' Arts ...
Even though 2011 isn't over, Clark County Commissioner Larry Brown is in the running for dumbest explanation of the year by a political figure.He explained he had vote to give a bus contract to ...
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A revamped lease proposed for Bali Hai Golf Club would allow developer Bill Walters to pay $100,000 a year in rent and perhaps one day convert the Strip site into a giant retail, office and ...
A 28-year-old Pahrump man is wanted after being linked to two marijuana grow houses where authorities seized $5.7 million worth of marijuana, the Nye County Sheriff's office said Wednesday.Amos ...
RENO, NV - Nevada Humane Society is seeking donations to help care for cats who survived a house fire in southwest Reno. "We received a call from a neighbor reporting that there were cats on ...
www.lvrj.com/rjtv featuring video of a 9,100-gallon fuel tanker ablaze on I-15 near downtown Las Vegas. RJtv also has video of the biggest cocaine bust in Nevada history. These stories and more, ...
On August 9, 2011, detectives with the Reno Police Department Sex Crimes/Child Abuse unit were notified by a mandatory reporting agency of a possible sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl from May of ...
Reno, 08/10/2011 - The Nevada Department of Agriculture's Animal Disease and Food Safety Laboratory has to date identified positive mosquito (Culex tarsalis) pools from Lyon County, Churchill ...
It is a longtime local favorite of beer drinkers: a hometown craft brew with a following that has been growing. And now, fans of Great Basin will be happy to learn it's easier than ever to get ...
For the past six weeks Barbie, the registered Paint, has been doing double time. Greta Anderson: "We just kept waiting and not understanding why it was that she hadn't delivered," ...
While their friends head back to class, the three Frankovich kids will be logging on and learning from the loft in their Spanish Springs home. Ryan, Justin and Sean are all enrolled in the Nevada ...
Police are easing policies on where people can take alcohol downtown at Hot August Nights. The new rules come as police said they have developed a plan to work with casinos' security to keep ...
Anthony Sowell appears for the sentencing phase of his trial Tuesday morning, Aug. 9, 2011, in Cleveland. The jury that convicted Sowell began deliberating Tuesday afternoon on whether to recommend ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A gasoline tanker overturned and burst into flames early Wednesday on a busy interstate outside downtown Las Vegas, closing the highway and snarling the morning ...
Green advocates can look no further than Las Vegas for their summer dose of clean energy. Along with the Center for American Progress, the Clean Energy Project, MGM Resorts International, and the ...
A Navy SEAL was found guilty Wednesday of seven counts of battery in a March 2010 attack on eight people with a metal pipe at a Strip casino.After a weeklong trial, the jury deliberated about eight ...
Law enforcement made the largest cocaine bust in Nevada history early Wednesday, recovering 452 pounds of cocaine worth more than $16 million from a tractor-trailer that was headed north on ...
NEW YORK -- An executive producer of the hit musical reality TV show "American Idol" says celebrity judge Jennifer Lopez will return for another season. Lopez hasn't said anything. ...
LOS ANGELES -- George Lopez, who surrendered his TBS time slot to Conan O'Brien and then saw ratings for "Lopez Tonight" slide, got a cancelation notice Wednesday. Lopez's ...
Three fugitive siblings accused of shooting at police in Florida and robbing a bank in Georgia were captured Wednesday in Colorado after crashing their car into a highway barrier during a high-speed ...
A federal judge considering whether Reno's billboard ordinance violates free speech said Wednesday he hopes to decide next week whether to grant an injunction sought by critics who say the cap ...
10,720. It's the third time in the last five trading days that the Dow lost more than 500 points. The S&P 500 is down 51 points, or 4.4 percent, to 1,121. The Nasdaq is down 101, or 4.1 ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Sarah Palin is a grandmother again. Kyla Grace Palin was born Saturday to Palin's eldest son, 22-year-old Track Palin, and his new wife, 21-year-old Britta Hanson. ...
For the second time in seven months, U.S. District Judge James Mahan held Howard Awand in contempt Wednesday for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating fraud within the legal ...
Henderson Mayor Andy Hafen speaks at an event marking the start of construction on Lake Las Vegas Parkway. The $1.8 million road improvement project is expected to be finished in ...
The United States' budget deficit has topped $1 trillion for a third straight year, adding pressure on Congress and the White House to make more progress on a long-term plan to shrink the ...
Police say an out-of-control SUV drove onto a sidewalk and killed three elderly women before crashing into a New York church. Authorities say the driver's foot might have gotten stuck on the ...
Reagan didn't do too bad. Baldwin certainly has the charisma for it. And the acting talents probably come in pretty handy in putting on the mask in tense ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Engineers are inspecting the integrity of a scorched roadway after a tanker carrying 9,100 gallons of gasoline overturned on a major Las Vegas thoroughfare and exploded into ...
DENVER -- Two men and a woman believed to be siblings wanted for crimes in Florida and Georgia have been captured in Colorado. The Colorado State Patrol said the three were captured near ...
In this photo taken on Saturday, a 49 people dressed in giant carrot costumes dance on a square before Pang Kun, one of the 49 carrots, proposes to his girlfriend in Qingdao in east China's ...
Las Vegas businessman Byron Georgiou announced Wednesday that he's quitting his Democratic run for the U.S. Senate.Georgiou's departure clears the way for U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley to ...
BEAVER, Pa. -- Police say a Pennsylvania woman endangered her 6-year-old niece by having the girl back the woman's car out of a tight parking spot, wrecking two other cars in the ...
A photo from Jan. 26, 2007, at Lake Mead shows a quagga mussel. The tiny creature, smaller than a penny, is freshwater, non-native and highly invasive. ...
Officers walk polygamist religious leader Warren Jeffs out of the courthouse Tuesday in San Angelo, Texas, on his way to a state prison after a jury took less than 30 minutes to sentence him to a ...
UPDATED @ 9:34 am Two people have survived a small plane crash in Washoe Valley. It happened near Washoe Lake State Park, around 8:30 a.m. but the plane did not land in the lake itself. ...
The Hot August Nights celebration is in full swing and we couldn't be more excited for the events today. Below is a list of today's highlighted events along with a full ...
Southbound Interstate 15 was shut down at Lake Mead Boulevard Wednesday morning after a tractor-trailer carrying gasoline overturned and caught fire.The accident happened about 3:45 a.m. All ...
Thousands of extra police officers flooded into London Wednesday in a bid to end Britain's worst rioting in a generation. An eerie calm prevailed in the capital, but unrest spread across ...
The producers of a new reality show are looking to tap into Las Vegas trailer park drama.In other words, hell on wheels.If you think you meet the standards, the producers of "Trailer Park ...
As various freeway and major interchanges are decorated with rocks, plants, paintings and sculptures, it has become clear that not everybody is a big fan of artwork on our roadways. We received a ...
Roy Kekahuna, left, national president of the Blinded Veterans Association, and Chuck Conger, president of the Southern Nevada regional group, talk about their upcoming convention in Las Vegas. ...
Bobby Townsend, housing coordinator for the nonprofit Aid for AIDS of Nevada, sits on a bed in one of the units of a renovated, affordable development that will be made available to HIV or AIDS ...
KINGMAN, Ariz. -- Top law enforcement officials in northwest Arizona expressed satisfaction Tuesday that their counterparts in Texas successfully prosecuted polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs and ...
Homes for sale are shown in the Villas at Black Mountain development near Horizon Ridge Parkway and Gibson Road in Henderson Wednesday, June 1, ...
Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011 | 2 a.m. When Anthony Curtis speaks of the challenge of getting debt-laden consumers to spend money in Las Vegas, his analysis is framed by personal business experience as ...
Frontier Airlines will be adding a sixth round-trip flight between Denver and San Diego International Airport for the month of October. The added flights will be on Monday, Thursday, Friday, ...
A small contingent of anti-nuclear demonstrators from the faith-based Nevada Desert Experience marked the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, with a protest at the entrance to ...
There hasn't been a fatal accident on 395 South in Pleasant Valley in seven years. The posted speed through there is 50-miles an hour. More often than not driver would go 15-to-20 miles above ...
RENO, NV - Washoe County Commissioners have approved a transition plan to have its own separate fire department up and running in less than 11 months. Time was a fire call in the unincorporated ...
www.lvrj.com/rjtv featuring adult beverages frozen into grown-up versions of youngsters' summer freezer pops. And you'll learn more about an upcoming convention of blinded Veterans in Las ...
A frustrated judge on Tuesday ordered North Las Vegas officials and the police supervisors' union to make nice and help the cash-strapped city avoid financial disaster."You have spent a ...
A dispute between Clark County and North Las Vegas over the use of a flood control channel belongs in state court, a federal judge decided Tuesday.The city and the county are engaged in a battle ...
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority's board of directors unanimously approved a deal Tuesday that makes former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman the official ambassador of Las Vegas. ...
Restaurant and casino operator Landry's Restaurants Inc. has stepped in to prevent the closure of Eva Longoria's Beso restaurant in Las Vegas - and Landry's now hopes to buy Beso out ...
A man shot by Las Vegas police Monday evening was identified Tuesday.Police said Allen Stout, 36, pushed his way into a random home at the Marquesa condominiums at 7200 Pirates Cove Road, near ...
TOLEDO, Ohio -- A woman who died after falling face-first into a recycling bin and wasn't noticed until her husband came from work had gotten stuck in a position in which she couldn't ...
The fallen come home here with such dignity that every American flag on every case of remains is inspected for the tiniest smudge. The dead are treated with reverence by everyone. Including their ...
WACO, Texas (AP) - An AWOL soldier has been indicted on three federal charges in connection with a plot to bomb Fort Hood soldiers in Texas. Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo was indicted Tuesday on charges of ...
State health officials hope to learn this week whether deer are the source of an E. coli outbreak in northwestern Oregon linked to fresh ...
Southwest and Delta say they have rolled back last month's fare increases so that passengers will pay the same price even though federal ticket taxes are being collected ...
Ezekiel Rubalcada made his first court appearance Tuesday on charges of stealing $482,883 from a prominent sports betting operation, but his arraignment was continued until he hires a lawyer. ...
District Judge Michelle Leavitt Tuesday ordered Maurice Carroll, the former process server convicted in a false affidavit scheme, back behind bars.Prosecutors had asked Leavitt to revoke ...
Anthony Bennett . As of today, though, he made it known that Dave Rice and his staff has as good of a shot as nine other schools. In a day and age where college recruits can tease coaches and fan ...
The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that it will likely keep interest rates at record lows for the next two years after acknowledging that the economy is weaker than it had thought and faces increasing ...
Britons swept up, patched up and feared furtherviolence Tuesday, demanding police do more to protect them after three nights of rioting left looted stores, torched cars and blackened buildings ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Apple has surpassed Exxon Mobil as the most valuable company in the U.S. The milestone occurred shortly before 2 p.m. Tuesday. Apple Inc.'s stock gained 3.4 percent to ...
RENO, Nev. - Tickets to the Aug. 25 debate among the four candidates for Nevada's 2nd Congressional District will be available at exactly 10 a.m. Aug. 12. Tickets will be free, but limited to ...
A retired high-ranking naval officer honored for his valor during the Sept. 11 attacks on the Pentagon is being tried for a third time on allegations he exaggerated his injuries to get money from ...
BOLIVIA, N.C. -- A North Carolina teenager who stars on MTV's reality show "Teen Mom 2" has been charged with a probation violation.Brunswick County Detention Center Officer Chris ...
HAVANA -- Wind conditions and "less than ideal currents" prompted marathon swimmer Diana Nyad to end her second bid to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys about halfway through her journey ...