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  • Justin Bieber teams up with Child Hunger Ends Here campaign

    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 ...

  • Las Vegas urology clinics agree to pay $1 million settlement in medical billing case

    A local urology practice will pay $1 million to the U.S. Department of Justice for improperly billing numerous federal health care organizations, according to Nevada U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden. Las Vegas Urology, which has seven Las Vegas locations, improperly billed health care agencies such as Medicare, TRICARE, and others from 2005 to 2010. The company settled with the Justice Department ...

  • Las Vegas Urology Agrees to $1 Million Settlement

    LAS VEGAS -- The two men facing murder charges in the death of a 15-year-old high school student appeared in a Las Vegas courtroom Tuesday morning. Michael Solid, 21, and Jacob Dismont, 18, made ...

  • Consultant at Desai trial More clinic patients better sales price

    In the mid-2000s, Dr. Dipak Desai was shopping his clinics around and, as his business consultant testified Tuesday, facilities with higher volumes of traffic garnered the higher sales price. Lawrence Preston, a health care consultant, said endoscopy clinics could go for around $5 million or $6 million. Most of the national companies that expressed interest in Desai's Shadow Lane facility ...

  • Police investigating suspicious death at Las Vegas house

    Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | 12:26 p.m. Metro Police homicide detectives were investigating a suspicious death Tuesday at a house in the 8000 block of Green Pasture Avenue in northwest Las Vegas. Police were called about 11 a.m. after a woman was found dead in the house in the area of Lone Mountain Road and Durango Drive, police spokesman Sgt. John Shehan said. A homicide unit was dispatched because ...


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Movie Review

What Women Want [DVD]

What Women Want [DVD]

Playing Nick Marshall, the wealthy, successful, male-chauvinist Chicago ad executive in What Women Want marks the first time Mel Gibson has played the lead role in a straight romantic comedy. While the more recent entries into the Lethal Weapon franchise have played like comedies with an extreme body count, Gibson has never been in a movie like this one, which is surprising beca ... ...

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  • Incident fuels speculation of Pope Francis as exorcist

    VATICAN CITY -- Is Pope Francis an exorcist? The question has bubbled up ever since Francis laid his hands on the head of a young man in a wheelchair after celebrating Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, shook, then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over him. The television station of the Italian bishops' conference reported ...

  • Key figure indicted in Las Vegas HOA scheme claimed Attorney General Masto approved his plan

    Leon Benzer, indicted in a scheme to take over homeowners associations in the Las Vegas Valley, says he had approval from Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez ...

  • Arias reverses on death penalty asks jurors for life sentence

    Jodi Arias told a jury on Tuesday that she can contribute to society through volunteer programs in prison. She was allowed to address the jury as part of the penalty phase, following her conviction in the death of Travis Alexander. Arias, shown here during a May 1 court appearance, could get the death ...

  • Nevada gun background checks bill clears Senate Finance

    Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son Jesse was killed in Newtown, Conn., in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December, speaks on Tuesday in Carson City during a rally to require background checks on private sale gun purchases in Nevada. Gilles Rousseau, left, whose daughter Lauren was among the staff killed that day, also spoke at the rally. Senate Bill 221 passed the Senate Finance ...

  • The Hangover Part III revisits Las Vegas

    New Delhi, May 21 : The third installment of "The Hangover" series will take the lead characters of the movie back to Las Vegas, where the plot of the first movie was ...

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