Nevada Sen. Harry Reid is declaring congressional efforts to legalize Internet poker dead for the year.

Police say the uncle of a 21-year-old man already facing charges has been arrested in a southern Nevada freeway shooting that appeared to be a random drive-by, but that investigators say stemmed from a murder plot hatched over a bitter divorce.

A prosecutor says he's almost positive a Las Vegas man who was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison in a mortgage fraud case will go back to preying on distressed homeowners.

A 40-year-old former construction company manager now living in Illinois has become the 28th person to take a plea deal in an ongoing federal probe of southern Nevada homeowner associations steering business to favored attorneys and businesses.

Authorities say a veteran Las Vegas traffic officer has been suspended without pay following his arrest on felony fraud charges in a workers' compensation case.

The district attorney is clearing two Henderson police officers in the July 23 death of an unarmed fugitive in a kidnap-slaying case who led police on a chase and tried to commandeer a passing motorist's vehicle.

Nevada residents who pine to play the lottery will soon be able to buy Powerball tickets.

A hospital in northwest Las Vegas is hosting a decontamination drill simulating the release of radiation due to a criminal act.

Rising demand and falling supply are spurring talk in the arid West of outside-the-box ideas like piping water from the nation's heartland and towing Arctic icebergs south to help thirsty U.S. cities like Denver, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Phoenix.

Authorities say two high school students and three adults were taken to the hospital after a bus and a vehicle collided in Las Vegas.

A 22-year-old was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison and his 21-year-old brother got 13 to 25 years for strangling a southern Nevada high school music teacher before stealing his car, laptop computers and a video game system in December 2008.

Las Vegas, land of the quickie wedding, is in the midst of a love recession and chapels see a moneymaking opportunity Dec. 12, 2012.

Witnesses tell police a 6-year-old boy who was injured by a school bus in Las Vegas was throwing rocks at cars, darting into traffic, and ran into the side of bus.

Authorities say a North Las Vegas man was hospitalized with minor injuries while a smoky fire gutted his house.

A federal appeals court panel is giving a Canadian man another chance to prove that he's the legal owner of nearly $1 million that Nevada state troopers seized from his rental car during a traffic stop near Las Vegas in August 2008.

Las Vegas police say two people were arrested and almost 70 marijuana plants were found in what investigators called a sophisticated growing operation at two Henderson homes.

Police are investigating a school bus accident in Las Vegas that left a 6-year-old boy hospitalized with serious leg injuries.

Officials are reporting home prices increased in November in the Las Vegas area, continuing an upward trend.

Authorities have identified a 16-year-old boy who died after the car he was driving crashed into a concrete wall off a busy thoroughfare west of downtown Las Vegas.

Authorities have identified a 32-year-old man shot dead over the weekend in North Las Vegas.

A University of Nevada, Las Vegas researcher says the gambling industry will bounce back more slowly than the rest of the U.S. economy.

A former aide has pleaded guilty to five felony charges and is agreeing to testify against the former owner of a Las Vegas outpatient clinic that officials blame for a 2007 hepatitis C outbreak in southern Nevada.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval says he will lead trade missions to Mexico and Israel in the upcoming year to promote the state's export opportunities.

A property restriction dating to 2003 could scuttle efforts to keep the Nevada Cancer Institute operating in Las Vegas.

Police have named a 42-year-old man as the person of interest in the fatal shooting of a woman in southeast Las Vegas.