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Graffiti removal effort to shut some southbound lanes on I-15

Three southbound lanes of Interstate 15, from Charleston Boulevard to Spring Mountain Road, will be closed from 8 p.m. Saturday to 5 a.m. Sunday as the Nevada Department of Transportation removes graffiti from the side of the Spring Mountain flyover bridge.

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Five steroid vials seized from Clark County

Federal officials confiscated from Clark County five vials of the steroid linked to a national meningitis outbreak, a health official said Thursday.

Desai’s criminal trial delayed until April

Defense lawyers on Thursday won a six-month continuance in the criminal trial of Dr. Dipak Desai and two nurse anesthetists stemming from the hepatitis C outbreak.

Make merry, and medieval, at Renaissance Festival

The Age of Chivalry Renaissance Festival started as a one-day event with fewer than 100 participants and about 1,000 members of the public. Nineteen years later, it’s expanded to a full weekend with more than 1,000 participants and 40,000 members of the public.

Sin City looks boring in stamp depicting suburb

The “Earthscapes” stamp sheet from the U.S. Postal Service features plenty of easily identifiable icons, but a sea of rooftops is a new image for a city that is accustomed to the nickname “Sin City.”

Haitians allowed visa extensions because of devastating quake

Haitians who live in the United States on borrowed time while their country continues to rebuild itself from the earthquake two years ago will now be allowed to extend their visas an extra 18 months, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday.