Provides the latest RSS feeds for Las Vegas News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Nevada State News.net http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/cat/1e0899715fbc2697/ en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 13:11:49 -0400 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:11:49 -0400 30 Justin Bieber surprised the young students of a Las Vegas primary school on Friday after he visited the place to declare that he had partnered up with Child Hunger Ends Here campaign. The 19-year-old singer, who dropped by Whitney Elementary School ahead of his performance at Sunday's Billboard Music Awards, spent time giving food donations to the children as they shed tears of joy after meeting ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214660584/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:10:03 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214660584/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 A notorious former football star brings a liquored-up posse, two members of which are armed, to a Palace Station hotel room to forcibly retrieve a few boxes of sports memorabilia. What could possibly go wrong? We know the answer to that, but O.J. Simpson and his trio of attorneys spent the past week trying their best to change the subject as they fought to win a new trial on the grounds he ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214662755/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:56:45 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214662755/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Michael Luangrath, 29, gave his mother, Dao Vahn, a longtime downtown Las Vegas business owner and cancer survivor, a $175,000 house for Mother’s Day. The mother and son are shown here in a photo illustration of her house in North Las Vegas on Thursday, May 16, ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214658050/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:20:33 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214658050/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 best burgers in Las Vegas was a delicious and hunger-inducing look at the burger in its most refined and elaborate form. But what about more common burgers? The blue-collar ones from places with roadside signs? The ones you might be able to order at a drive-thru? We wanted to give those some love, too, so we asked sun.com staffers to suggest some of their favorite quick-stop burgers. Here are a ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214658051/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:20:32 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214658051/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Tina Kunzer-Murphy will be the interim athletic director at UNLV, it was announced Monday, May 20, 2013. Last year Kunzer-Murphy stepped down after a 12-year run as executive director of the Las Vegas ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214658052/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:20:21 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214658052/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 A former mob lawyer, he promoted his city and himself with antics that lent credibility to his self-given title of "Happiest mayor in the ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214657076/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:15:24 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214657076/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Interim School Board Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky listens during a Clark County School Board meeting at the Clark County School Board headquarters on Thursday, April 11. Skorkowsky was appointed to the top school board job after former superintendent Dwight Jones sudden decision to depart his post last ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214655263/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:04:48 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214655263/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Col. Barry Cornish, commander of the 99th Air Base Wing, discusses measures Nellis AFB has taken to curb sexually aggressive behavior during an interview in his office at the base in Las Vegas, Tuesday, May ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214655262/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:04:48 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214655262/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Former Cantor Gaming sports book director Michael Colbert, shown here at an October 2012 court appearance, is being investigted by the Nevada Gaming Control ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214654399/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:59:55 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214654399/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Researchers say this fossil, pulled from the hills north of Las Vegas last year, is the lower jaw and bottom teeth of an extinct ice age horse that roamed the area more than 13,000 years ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214652597/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:52:27 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214652597/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 There were years they won the most awards, but never THE award for best Clark County high school newspaper. For the past four years, The Tribune staff at Liberty High School has been stuck at third place in the Clark County High School Journalism Awards. They landed second in 2008 and squeezed by with an honorable mention in 2007. But they were never recognized as the best standard-format ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214651646/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:46:55 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214651646/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 RENO - Two more of Harvey Whittemore's former employees testified Monday they each voluntarily contributed $4,600 to Sen. Harry Reid's campaign in 2007 at the suggestion of the wealthy ex-developer and lobbyist but didn't fear for their jobs if they didn't do so. Both said they generally supported Reid's re-election but both also acknowledged they wouldn't have ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214650639/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:40:46 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214650639/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Las Vegas police have identified an 18-year-old man as the second suspect in a fatal shooting last month on Fremont Street. Darion Muhammad-Coleman is wanted in the April 19 death of Dale Borero. Authorities consider him armed and dangerous. Officers responded to gunfire on the 2800 block of Fremont Street near Eastern Avenue when they discovered Borero with an apparent gunshot wound to the ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214650640/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:40:46 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214650640/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller is shown here testifying at the Legislative Building in Carson City, Nev.in March. Miller is being sued by a national Republican organization for failing to turn over what it says are public ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214650642/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:40:46 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214650642/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 CARSON CITY - A bill to require police to take DNA cheek swabs of anyone arrested on a felony charge won approval in the Assembly on Monday. The so-called "Brianna's Law" bill passed on a 29-9 vote, one more than the two-thirds vote needed. The Senate must now consider whether to accept changes made to Senate Bill 243 in the Assembly before it can go to Gov. Brian Sandoval for his ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214650641/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:40:45 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214650641/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 WASHINGTON -- A bill that would make it a crime to lie about receiving honors for military service was passed Monday in the U.S. House. The "Stolen Valor Act of 2013" was approved 390-3 in a vote timed to fall between Armed Forces Day last Saturday and Memorial Day this Monday. "What better way to show our support for our brave servicemen and women than by passing this ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214650643/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:40:44 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214650643/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 LAS VEGAS -- A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in the embezzlement of nearly $5.6 million from Turnberry Associates, Nevada's U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214650644/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:24:03 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214650644/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Monday, May 20, 2013 | 3:50 p.m. One of the newest businesses to gain support from VegasTechFund is Local Motors. Founded five years ago, Local Motors uses crowdsourcing to help in the design of a car, motorcycle or other type of vehicle. John Rogers Jr., president and CEO, last week was in downtown Las Vegas, where VegasTechFund is headquartered. The fund is a tech investment group whose ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214649477/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:27:50 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214649477/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 CARSON CITY-- On a 20-1 vote, state senators on Monday passed a bill that would allow people who are not in the country legally to acquire driver authorization cards. Under the bill, they would have to pass a driving test before they could acquire the card, which cannot be used for identification purposes. The annual fee for renewing the driver's card is $18.50. Four states, including Utah ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214649479/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:27:45 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214649479/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 After seeing improvements to test scores or advancement in math curriculum, students who come to Mathease always have the same reaction, according to the program's tutors. "They always say, 'I wish I knew about this program sooner,'" said Patricia Gordon, owner of the tutoring company Mathease. "The program works because we empower students." Mathease, which has ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214649478/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:27:45 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214649478/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 The valley's wholesale water supplier and its largest water utility have adopted spending plans for the coming year that seem to mirror the local economy at large -- mostly flat but showing signs of growth. Under a final budget approved Monday, the Las Vegas Valley Water District expects to cut its spending by about $4.2 million while adding about $4 million to its reserve fund during the ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214649480/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:27:44 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214649480/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Incumbent Henderson Municipal Court Judge Mark Stevens, left, presents Warner Smith with a certificate of achievement at the court, 243 Water St., March 22 as part of the Veterans Court program. Stevens received 41.88 percent of the votes in the April primary election and his challenger, Sandra Allred DiGiacomo, received 40.75 ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214649481/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:27:44 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214649481/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Construction crews with Federal Heath Sign Company take down the cowboy sign at Terrible's Hotel & Casino on Paradise Road Monday in preparation for the hotel-casino's transition to its new name, the Silver Sevens Hotel & Casino. The neon sign will be donated to the Neon Museum in downtown Las ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214644362/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:20:31 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214644362/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 A second gastroenterologist who worked closely with Dr. Dipak Desai testified Monday that Desai operated his endoscopy clinics in a frugal manner but did not put patients' safety at risk. Dr. Vishvinder Sharma performed colonoscopies and upper endoscopies at Desai's clinics between 1994 and 2008, when the facilities closed following a hepatitis C outbreak that contaminated seven ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214644365/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:20:30 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214644365/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Las Vegas police investigators collect evidence Thursday after an officer-involved shooting in a parking lot near East Charleston Boulevard and Bruce Street. Police officer Michael Donovan shot and wounded a man police say was brandishing a pellet ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214644364/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:20:30 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214644364/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 CARSON CITY-- Senate Finance Committee members backed a bill Monday that would require full-day kindergarten in all Nevada elementary schools, but removed a requirement to provide state funds to carry out that mandate. Their support for Senate Bill 182 caused one lobbyist, John Wagner of the Independent American Party, to question what lawmakers were doing. He noted it would cost $90 million to ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214644363/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:20:30 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214644363/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says Manzarek died Monday at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family. Robinson-Fitzgerald says his manager, Tom Vitorino, confirmed Manzarek died around 3:30 p.m. EDT. He had bile duct ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214644510/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:05:19 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214644510/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 The purchase of WebHost XTC will help three Watertown business executives offer more e-commerce capabilities to customers of their respective companies. Three Watertown business owners have purchased a Las Vegas-based commerce hosting company and plan to add jobs locally, according to a Monday press release. Paul Dickey, owner of Accurate Pool & Spa Services in Watertown, along with Brian ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214643950/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:13:27 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214643950/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Tina Kunzer-Murphy will be the interim athletic director at UNLV, it was announced Monday, May 20, 2013. Last year Kunzer-Murphy stepped down after a 12-year run as executive director of the Las Vegas ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214641924/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:13:36 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214641924/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 LAS VEGAS -- Tina Kunzer-Murphy has been appointed as the interim athletic director for UNLV. "Tina Kunzer-Murphy has agreed to step into the role of interim athletic director on the heels of Jim ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214641925/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:57:27 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214641925/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 FILE - Jodi Arias cries as Steven Alexander, brother of murder victim Travis Alexander, makes his "victim impact statement" to the jury in this Thursday, May 16, 2013 file photo, during the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias returns to court Monday May 20, 2013 for the continuation of her trial after being convicted of murder in her ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214640265/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:13:37 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214640265/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Marcos Arenas, 15, was run over Thursday when robbers tried to take his iPad as he walked near Charleston Boulevard and Torrey Pines Drive. He later died of his ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214640656/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:09:04 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214640656/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 A man killed in an explosion near Nellis Air Force Base Friday morning has been identified by the Clark County coroner's office. Gregory Kent Wong, 51, from Las Vegas, was an employee of Nevada Truck and Trailer Repair, where the explosion and fire happened. Wong died from blunt force trauma to the head and other contributing causes, including explosive fire injury and first- and second- ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214640655/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:09:04 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214640655/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 USA The city of Los Angeles is pursuing a criminal investigation of a psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas, which has allegedly put 1,500 patients on buses and sent them out of state over the past five years. About one third of these patients, some of which were homeless, were given one-way bus tickets to cities in California. About 200 of the 1,500 mentally ill patients were sent to Los Angeles ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214640163/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:57:53 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214640163/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Three people killed in a head-on crash on Interstate 15 near the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sunday morning have been identified by the Clark County coroner's office. Aldo Diaz-Nafra, 20, of Las Vegas, was driving an Acura Legend northbound in the southbound lanes about 4:30 a.m. when he crashed into a southbound GMC Yukon driven by Ashutosh Jain, 28, of Beaumont, Texas, according to Nevada ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214639306/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:53:04 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214639306/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 It's seen every day throughout Las Vegas. Now it's creeping into the suburbs. Poverty. The Las Vegas metropolitan area was ranked among the 100 largest in the nation for levels of suburban poverty, according to data released today by the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution. "We see it every day," said Brian Burton, president and chief executive officer at the ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214637889/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:46:59 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214637889/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 MAKHACHKALA, Russia – Two people are dead and at least 20 are injured after two car bombs exploded Monday in Dagestan, in Russia's North Caucasus region, where armed militias are leading an Islamist insurgency. Both blasts were near the headquarters of the court bailiffs and appeared to have been detonated by remote control, a Russian state agency told Reuters. Police cordoned ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214637429/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:26:14 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214637429/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 SHAWNEE, Okla. -- Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little left of the community she called home. Several tornadoes struck parts of the nation's midsection Sunday, concentrating damage in central Oklahoma and Wichita, ... http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214636335/scat/1e0899715fbc2697 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:42:20 -0400 http://www.nevada.statenews.net/index.php/sid/214636335/scat/1e0899715fbc2697