Local Las Vegas
Gasoline prices are soaring toward $4 a gallon, a threshold that some analysts say will damage the fragile economic recovery, maybe even in Las Vegas.
If only more penny-stock company executives showed the kind of commitment that Donald McGhan had to MediCor Ltd., a Las Vegas-based manufacturer of breast implants.
A several-acre brush fire in a swampy area near 7000 Russell Road, near Sam Boyd Stadium, is sending heavy smoke over the east Las Vegas Valley this afternoon.
An off-duty Clark County School District police officer shot and wounded two men Saturday after he witnessed a shooting at a busy intersection in the east valley.
A 2-year-old boy was hospitalized Friday afternoon after being bitten by the family pit bull, according to Las Vegas police.
The passenger count at McCarran International Airport continued its slow rebound with a 2.2 percent gain in March.
Two Las Vegas police officers who shot and killed Erik Scott in the controversial Costco shooting last year have received honors in a national officer of the year award.
