Clark County News

Tue, Jun 30, 2009 The Clark County Commission is the most powerful local government body in Nevada, with a reach that includes the famed Las Vegas Strip, McCarran International Airport and University Medical Center.

A man on death row for a Clark County murder will have his appeal heard by the Nevada Supreme Court.

Dark clouds were moving from the southeast toward Las Vegas about 6:15 p.m. Friday.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. has said rumblings about his financial troubles are nothing more than rumors, but public records obtained by The Associated Press show the boxer nicknamed "Money" owes about $6.4 million to the Internal Revenue Service and others.

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LAS VEGAS - A judge in Las Vegas has rejected an effort by lawyers for the doctor at the center of a hepatitis outbreak to move the first 22 civil trials against him to Carson City.

LAS VEGAS - Health authorities are reporting Clark County's first probable human case associated with West Nile virus of this year.

The superintendent of the Clark County School District has been named Nevada's Superintendent of the Year by the Nevada Association of School Administrators.

A 33-year-old Clark County man infected with the swine flu virus died Sunday, Southern Nevada health officials said.

A fire official says a small construction fire has been extinguished on the 46th floor of a tower being built at a Las Vegas Strip resort.

Under President Obama's stimulus plan, states that have "adequately" funded education have received federal help.

Wed, Jun 24, 2009 Metro Police David Wachner Sun Archives Parents face charges in child shooting case Child shooting The mother of a 10-year-old North Las Vegas boy who shot a 7-year-old girl last month turned herself in to police this morning, charged with child neglect and endangerment.

Gov. Jim Gibbons's phone records will be handed over to the woman who accused him of assault in the run-up to the 2006 gubernatorial election, a federal magistrate ruled this week.

Most of about 65 Searchlight residents who turned out for a meeting said they don't like a North Carolina-based company's proposal to build 140 tall wind turbines outside town.

Police in Nevada have released a 911 recording and closed their investigation of Las Vegas entertainer Danny Gans' sudden death at home May 1. Gans' wife, Julie, is heard on the 911 audio released Thursday, calmly telling a dispatcher that she can't awaken her 52-year-old husband and can't tell if he's breathing.

A Nevada judge told a fugitive in the 1995 disappearance of his estranged wife in Greeley, Colo., that he'll be held for 90 days to give the Colorado governor time to issue a warrant to retrieve him in custody from Las Vegas.

LAS VEGAS - A teenage co-defendant has pleaded guilty to reduced charges in a February 2008 drive-by shooting that left a high school freshman dead in Las Vegas.

The former owner of a North Las Vegas strip club and his son have been sentenced to 20 years to life in prison in the slaying of a 44-year-old former club doorman in 2005.

Jury selection is set to begin July 7 for a man accused of spraying a Las Vegas Strip casino with gunfire in 2007.

Police say foul play isn't suspected in the death of a man whose skeletal human remains were found by a hiker in the desert outside Las Vegas during the weekend.