Residents and business owners who want a say in how Nevada will enact provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will have a chance to speak up several times in the coming weeks.
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Retired Army Col. Bill Olds knows how Col. Moammar Gadhafi operates. After all, the Libyan tyrant put a $500,000 bounty on his head after Olds led Egyptian forces in the capture of Libyan hijackers in 1985.
Holly Madison is the readers’ pick for Favorite Female Las Vegan in the 30th annual Best of Las Vegas poll, which was conducted by the Review-Journal.
Passengers flying on Alaska Airlines are advised to check the status of their flight before heading to the airport as a system-wide computer outage has caused delays and cancellations on both Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air.
A 7-year-old Henderson girl who went missing from her father’s apartment early Saturday was found safe in Barstow, Calif., shortly after the Henderson Police Department issued an Amber Alert on Saturday afternoon.
Minuscule amounts of radiation from Japan’s damaged nuclear plant have reached Las Vegas, but scientists say it poses no health risk.
Mitchell Crooks made national headlines in 2002 when he videotaped a brutal police beating in Inglewood, Calif.
Nine years later, Crooks, now a Las Vegas resident, is again involved in a videotaped police beating — except this time he is the subject.
Keeping people safe from Japan’s nuclear crisis hinges on radiation measurements that a team of experts from Nevada have been taking for 10 days from aircraft flying a relatively close but safe distance from the crippled reactors, said the response team’s co-founder in an interview Friday.
“What a way to go,” said Doug James, a former colleague of longtime on-air personality Scott O’Neil, who died Thursday at age 69 at the South Point Showroom as he was taping the syndicated “The Dennis Bono Show,” on which O’Neil was Bono’s sidekick.
Las Vegas police are asking the public’s help in locating persons of interest in the beating death of a 51-year-old man.
The iconic “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign will go dark for an hour Saturday along with nine Clark County buildings to commemorate Earth Hour 2011.
Nevada’s latest unemployment report provided yet another parade of tough news for the state’s jobs market. The state’s jobless rate dropped to 13.6 percent in February, down from 14.7 percent a year earlier, while unemployment in Las Vegas came in at 13.7 percent, down from 15.2 percent a year earlier.