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CARSON CITY -- A deputy attorney general defended state Division of Child and Family Services workers Friday who removed 33 children from the Abundant Life Academy near Ely in 2005 after receiving allegations the children were being abused. Full Story »
Best friends Ricki Greenspon and Harriet Smylie spent a good portion of their Saturday afternoon in line waiting to receive the H1N1 vaccine. Full Story »
Joe Cada came into the World Series of Poker Main Event as an unknown community college dropout. Full Story »
Hip-hip-hop to Bunkhouse show Full Story »
It is a city unto itself. CityCenter is by far the largest project on the Strip. Once it opens, the impact will be unlike anything in Las Vegas history. Full Story »
The story involves a restaurant owner, several UNLV students, the county, and a large inflatable woman named Juicy Lucy. Controversy is brewing at the Grind Lounge & Bar. Full Story »
Strippers in a box on the Las Vegas Strip. The mobile advertisement got plenty of local and national attention this week. It also grabbed the attention of our county commissioners. Now it appears the Stripper Mobile may be a thing of the past. Full Story »
Aviation Nation at Nellis Air Force Base opens to the public Saturday and runs through the weekend out at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It’s a great chance to see some of our country’s best pilots in action. Full Story »
Nevada gambling regulators are recommending approval for a license for the first casino due to open next month at the $8.5 billion CityCenter complex on the Las Vegas Strip. Full Story »
Sean “Diddy” Combs is about to open a new nightclub in Las Vegas. Well, almost: He’s going to help open one. Full Story »
Wind chills in the 30s arrived in Las Vegas this morning, following a cold front that passed through the city on Saturday. Full Story »
A man was found dead, the victim of a homicide, in his condominium Saturday morning after neighbors reported that he had not been seen for more than a week, Metro Police said. Full Story »
Joseph O’Connor was an Irish man with a Nevada business wanted by Interpol for selling ships to drug traffickers out of Spain. So of all the things a guy like O’Connor probably figures he could go down for, polluting must have been a surprise. And yet, in late October, O’Connor found himself in federal court, pleading guilty to environmental crimes. Full Story »
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, is selling used front-end loaders, water wagons, scrapers, generators and everything else needed to build roads and sewers, strip malls and houses. Full Story »
UNLV President Neal Smatresk & Interim Athletic Director Jerry Koloskie have announced that head football coach Mike Sanford will be terminated December 5th. Full Story »
According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department a one year old boy is in critical condition Sunday night after being found floating in the back yard pool where he lives. Full Story »
Manny Pacquiao's speed and power were way too much for Miguel Cotto's heart. Pacquiao put on yet another dominating performance Saturday night, knocking down Cotto twice and turning his face into a bloody mess before finally stopping him at 55 seconds of the 12th round. Full Story »
For the second time in three days a home invasion suspect has been shot and killed by a homeowner after breaking into a home. Full Story »
A medical helicopter crashed early Saturday north of Reno near the Nevada-California state line, killing three crew members aboard, officials said. Full Story »
Action News has confirmed that UNLV football coach Mike Sanford has been fired, effective December 5 th . Full Story »
Distracted drivers more than doubling the speed limit that's what we found at one North Las Vegas Elementary School. Some parents say their frustrations have been pushed to the limit, and they want speeders to slow down. Full Story »
The toddler is in critical condition at Sunrise Hospital. Full Story »
LAS VEGAS, NV- A driver and passengers had to climb out of an SUV after the vehicle plunged into a crater. The five foot deep sinkhole was the result of a water line break at the Heritage Estates apartment complex located near Cheyenne and Nellis. Full Story »
A man is shot in the head, and police need your help in finding who did it. Full Story »
An environmental advocacy group says carbon dioxide emissions in Nevada fell 12.5 percent from 2004 to 2007. Full Story »
A former Veterans Affairs employee pleads not guilty to charges he wore a Purple Heart and lied about being wounded in Vietnam. Full Story »
A Las Vegas strip club has agreed to stop an advertising promotion in which it hauled bikini-clad exotic dancers around in a truck with clear plastic sides. Full Story »
Manny Pacquiao weighed in at 144 pounds, his heaviest ever, while Miguel Cotto came in at the contract limit of 145 pounds for their scheduled 12-round fight. Full Story »
A Las Vegas boy will not be charged with firing a gun at a school bus stop because he is too young, police said Friday. Full Story »
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WASHINGTON -- Geothermal projects in Nevada received about one-third of the $338 million in grants under the economy recovery package, including projects in Gabbs, in northwestern Nye County, and in Silver Peak, Alum and Fish Lake Valley in Esmeralda County. Full Story »
The proposed solar energy zones in Lincoln County, in southeastern Nevada, drew most of the negative comments in a programmatic environmental impact statement on solar energy being prepared by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Full Story »
Official word about layoffs at Herbst Gaming was hard to come by this week. Pat Michel, general manager of Terrible's Town Casino, referred inquiries to Sean Higgins, Herbst Gaming legal counsel. Full Story »
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Boyd Gaming Corp. has put the brakes on its $4.8 billion Echelon project for at least three to five years. But the casino operator has an idea of how to spend the money it raised for the Strip development: acquire a large chunk of Station Casinos out of bankruptcy. Full Story »
Gerety and Associates hired Warren Varner as manager of cost segregation studies. The Western Mountain Region of the American Institute of Architects elected Edward Vance to a three-year term as director beginning in 2010. Full Story »
Supply-side economist Bruce Bartlett has two messages for his fellow Republicans in "The New American Economy": the welfare state isn't going away and tax cuts can't solve everything. Full Story »
Planning a business lunch? Then this is no doubt what you're looking for: a serious-minded place with a quiet, subdued atmosphere, modest portions of trendy food and big tables spaced far apart, so you have plenty of space to work and can speak freely without threat of being overheard. Full Story »
Ten years ago, Paul Draher was a counselor for Suicide Prevention Center of Clark County. He talked people out of killing themselves. Today, he operates Boot-It, a parking enforcement service. Full Story »
Looking east from the heart of Richfield Village, past Rex Bell Elementary School, the mansard roof of Palace Station towers over the sedate neighborhood. By Vegas standards, Richfield is venerable, growing up around Rex Bell, built in 1963. But Palace Station is no longer just a landmark or an employer to Richfield residents. It's also become the elephant in the middle of the neighborhood ... Full Story »
"Hands up!" A herd of 50 little bodies rears up halfway across the cafeteria, stutter-stepping quickly in to a single-file line as lunch lady Kimmie Nixon's booming voice cuts short their late-morning stampede. Full Story »
What happens when the money runs out in the age of information? The desperate turn to cyber begging. Full Story »
The modern UFO hunter looks an awful lot like the ink-stained wretch of the Watergate era -- judging by the speakers at the 7th annual UFO Crash Recovery Conference at Tuscany Suites and Casino. Many of the 200 or so attendees wear ill-fitting suits, carry briefcases and spend their days cultivating sources, requesting documents and authenticating manuscripts. Full Story »
FORMER LIBERIAN PRESIDENT Amos Sawyer knows all about political crawlspace. Full Story »
A Henderson man suffered second-degree burns to his hands while trying to extinguish a mattress fire Saturday afternoon. The man was trying to get a burning mattress out of a house at 19 California Way, near Boulder Highway and Lake Mead Drive. Full Story »
Men enjoy warm weather at a hot mineral spring near the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov)
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