A pair of Clark County women deserve at least $60 million after developing bladder cancer from taking the diabetes drug Actos, one of their attorneys told a jury Monday. The lawyers for Delores Cipriano, 81, and Bertha Triana, 80, have said they plan to seek billions of dollars more in punitive damages from the Japan-based drug maker Takeda as the case wraps up this week.
The man charged in a fatal shooting at the Palms this past week said the gun fired accidentally, according to Las Vegas police.
Clark County commissioners unanimously approved a $1.2 billion general fund budget on Monday for the upcoming fiscal year.
Students from the UNLV Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering showcased their commercially viable projects May 8 at the annual Spring Senior Design Competition.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a motorcyclist killed in Sunday’s accident in northeast Las Vegas.
Experienced defense lawyers are mounting a campaign to move the upcoming federal trial of urologist Michael S. Kaplan out of Las Vegas. At issue is the mass of publicity in the civil and criminal cases of another physician, Dipak Desai.
The sting of fee increases to help balance the City of Las Vegas fiscal 2015 budget is upsetting people involved with youth and adult sports.
A city employee with a base salary of $71,000 who was paid for callback and overtime totaling $102,155 in 2011 and 2012 has sparked a reorganization of the Las Vegas Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services Department.
A man is in critical condition after a moped accident in North Las Vegas Monday.
North Las Vegas Judge Catherine Ramsey is waging a costly legal battle against an ex-employee and, according to public records, used a city credit card to help pay for it — a move officials say amounts to a misappropriation of public funds.
After record high heat on Saturday, the temperature cool off on Sunday. Expect more cooler temperatures on Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday’s high temperature is forecasted to be in the low 80s.
Paychecks kept coming to Priscilla Rocha as she spent every workday at home on suspension, waiting for the results of a Las Vegas police investigation of her Clark County School District department for possible misuse of taxpayer resources.
Henderson’s latest budget, which continues the trend of tapping reserves, goes before the City Council for approval Tuesday. About $4.6 million will be pulled from the city’s vehicle purchasing and maintenance fund to fill operating gaps.
A federal judge has banned a Texas felon authorities say is tied to the anti-government “sovereign citizens” movement from meddling in the high-profile legal battle between Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
Two years after a Clark County judge gave a Las Vegas man probation for an attempted murder conviction, he is now behind bars awaiting trial for murder. Now some are questioning whether Judge Ken Cory’s leniency from the bench kept a violent criminal on the streets.
