LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas hospital has become the second medical facility in the region to open a burn treatment center. Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center says the unit opened Oct. 1. It’s affiliated with Burn and Reconstructive Centers of America, a network of 11 centers in eight […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Felony charges have been dropped in Nevada against a former Republican political consultant who was accused of imprisoning and battering his girlfriend. Benjamin Sparks’ attorney, Joshua Tomsheck, said Wednesday that prosecutors wouldn’t have been able to prove kidnapping, domestic battery and coercion charges in a grand […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The monsoon season was a dud across much of the U.S. Southwest this year, bringing high hope but delivering little rainfall. Several communities in northern Arizona had the driest monsoon season on record, including Flagstaff. Phoenix’s season was the fifth driest recorded. The seasonal weather pattern […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Recyclable materials in a southern Utah county are instead going to a landfill. The Spectrum newspaper reports that the contents of residential recycling bins in Washington County have been going to the trash since mid-July because of contractual issues and a fluctuating recycling market. The county had contracted […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Across the Southwest, people are longing for seasonal rainstorms like a lost summer romance. They’re declaring their love online for the weather pattern that makes the scorching heat somewhat bearable in places like Phoenix and Las Vegas, and helps snuff out wildfires. They’re peering out their […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Thursday, the Utah Jazz signed a pair of noteworthy free agents in rookie forward Juwan Morgan and 2nd year guard Trevon Bluiett. Morgan, a former standout at Indiana, played on the Jazz’s Summer League squad at both Salt Lake City and Las Vegas this summer. During the Las […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A jury in Las Vegas heard two vastly different views in a federal racketeering trial that opened Monday for eight Vagos biker gang members stemming from a 2011 shootout that killed a rival Hells Angels leader in a Nevada casino. Prosecutor John Han called it an […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A 64-year-old Utah man has been extradited to Reno to face a murder charge in the April death of the ex-husband of a controversial Clark County judge who died in 2014. Mark Burkett of Big Water, Utah was booked into the Washoe County Jail Monday on […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A champion bodybuilder faces felony charges accusing him of raping a female bodybuilder in a Salt Lake City suburb last October. Court records indicate an arrest warrant issued Thursday charges 44-year-old Shawn Rhoden from Santa Barbara, California, with rape, object rape and forcible sexual abuse. […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Utah man and a Florida man have been convicted of running a Nevada ring aimed at creating and selling synthetic marijuana known as “spice.” The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nevada announced Wednesday that Charles Burton Ritchie of Park City, Utah, and Benjamin Galecki of Pensacola, […]
