Donned in gray sweatpants and cloaked under a matching gray hoodie, champion boxer Floyd Mayweather wasn’t late to the gym Friday morning. Instead, he was on his way to court to report for the start of his 90-day sentence for domestic battery. Shortly after 10:45 a.m. the 34-year-old stepped out of a white Cadillac Escalade, his neon-green sneakers touching the hot sidewalk.
President Barack Obama will visit UNLV next week, according to university officials. Obama is expected to be on campus June 7 for an "official event," a White House official said Wednesday. Other details of Obama's trip have not been released.
A gentle, cool wind brushes Rita Wagner’s blond bangs over the age lines on her tanned forehead as she hikes Big Falls at Mount Charleston. It’s a 3 1/2-mile trail with an 800-foot elevation gain that leads hikers to a shimmering waterfall. For Wagner, 73, it’s an easy hike; she pays no attention to those who say she’s too old for such activity.
Justice seems to pump through the veins of Alexis Brown, a Las Vegas native who has been “practicing” law since she was 13. Brown, 29, is a lawyer with the Fennemore Craig legal firm and traces her love of the law to her childhood. Among her youthful experiences, Brown was involved with Clark County’s Trial By Peers, a program established in 1993 that enables middle and high school students to represent and prosecute teens accused of petite crimes, such as shoplifting or truancy.
An act of goodwill has enraged Findlay Toyota’s Facebook audience to a point where the car dealership’s marketing department shut down its promotional page. The target of the backlash is Philadelphia Eagle Michael Vick, who met with fans Friday night at the Henderson dealership.
North Las Vegas released 70 inmates from its jail Thursday, part of a plan to reduce the size of the facility brought on by a rash of correctional officers calling in sick last weekend, a city official said Friday.
Metro Police is asking the public’s assistance in locating a 15-year-old girl who they say went missing early Thursday morning in northwest valley. Illiana Zamora was last seen around 5 a.m. in the area of Farm and Fort Apache roads, police said.
