Firefighters rescued four workers trapped for several hours on a platform stuck 35 floors above the Las Vegas strip, a fire official said Wednesday.
Las Vegas Metro Police received an unusual call Thursday morning -- two chimpanzees were loose and attacking cars in the northwest part of the city.
A chimp is shot and killed after he and his mate run wild through a Las Vegas neighborhood. KLAS reports.
Millions of people were sweltering Saturday in record-breaking heat in the wake of deadly storms that ripped across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic.
A marriage proposal in southern Indiana concluded with a shock late Wednesday, when the hot air balloon carrying the future bride and groom hit a power line and knocked the pilot unconscious, a sheriff's office spokesman said.
A couple's romantic proposal ended with a trip to the hospital after their hot air balloon hit power lines.
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was booked Friday into the Clark County, Nevada, detention center to serve a 90-day sentence for a conviction last year on a domestic violence charge, police said.
Students at an Indiana high school heavily damaged by a tornado this month will have a private prom party thrown by the country music trio Lady Antebellum, followed by a public concert to raise money for their community.
Standing side-by-side behind the front window of their home, Lenora Hunter and her husband, Wayne, shot videos of the powerful tornado barreling toward this southern Indiana town.
CNN's Susan Candiotti interviews a widow who videotaped a tornado that killed her husband as they hid in their home.
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn't have to report to jail on a domestic violence conviction until June, after a Nevada judge acceded Friday to a defense request to push back the date until after a May bout.
The 16-year-old's parents consent to their daughter's marriage to Lost actor Hutchinson, 51
While it may be unusual, is marrying a 16-year-old who is 35 years your junior illegal? The short answer appears to be no -- at least, not in Vegas.
A father and his fiancee are behind bars after being accused of using a cagelike door to lock two young boys in a bedroom, according to police in Washington state.
Las Vegas police caught two people as they were about to board a plane for Colombia, then charged them with the murder of a woman who went missing hours after being dropped off for a cosmetic surgery procedure.
Former Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil entered a guilty plea on a drunk driving charge in Las Vegas Wednesday, a court spokeswoman said.
Every week, Judge William Voy of the Clark County Juvenile Court in Las Vegas holds a special session for underage sex trafficking victims picked up by police in Las Vegas.
The Clark County, Ohio, sheriff says a deputy was fatally shot, and a police officer was wounded at a mobile home park.
A sheriff's deputy who was shot and killed at a trailer park in western Ohio has been identified, as has the suspect who was also killed.
Sheriff's deputy Suzanne Hopper was shot and killed at a trailer park in western Ohio, Clark County Sheriff Gene Kelly said.
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was arrested at a Las Vegas casino on a misdemeanor battery charge after he allegedly assaulted a security guard at his housing complex, a police official said Friday.
The Some Like It Hot and Sweet Smell of Success leading man led a colorful, if troubled life
Prosecutors have charged a woman who admitted throwing a corrosive liquid on her own face with three counts of theft from people or companies acting as Good Samaritans, Clark County, Washington, officials said Monday.
A small plane with four people aboard crashed Monday in a residential neighborhood of Las Vegas, Nevada, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Prosecutors in Clark County, Nevada, filed a felony charge against Paris Hilton on Monday stemming from her arrest over the weekend on suspicion of cocaine possession.
A chemical leak in the pool area of the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, sickened as many as 100 people Friday, sending 12 of them to local hospitals, according to a spokeswoman for Clark County.
Nevada sheriff's deputies descended Thursday on Wayne Newton's 38-acre ranch with movers in tow to carry out a debt-collection action, but were rebuffed, officials told CNN.
Hoteliers in Las Vegas are slashing prices, making the city a destination for budget travelers.
You can already gamble at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada, and soon you may be able to buy a bottle of wine, or something stronger, as you're waiting to pick up your luggage after a flight.
Two people died Wednesday when a car crashed into the front entrance of a Laughlin, Nevada, casino, police said.
At least five people are dead in Ohio after a tanker truck collided with a school van carrying special needs children.
Four people were killed and six injured Wednesday when a tanker truck collided with a school special needs van just west of Springfield, Ohio, authorities said.
You know that your home's value has tanked. So why doesn't the blasted tax man? Home prices fell 27% from the 2006 peak to the end of 2008, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Index, while the amount municipalities collected in property taxes rose 12% from 2006 to 2008.
CNN Thelma Gutierrez reports on a doctor who helps cancer patients turned away from a county hospital in Las Vegas.
"This is not an issue of drug abuse," says coroner of entertainer's death accidental
The 2.3 million college grads in the class of 2009 are finding that starting a career in the current economic climate will require some sacrifice.
The Las Vegas entertainment community was shocked by the sudden death Friday of Danny Gans, a popular singer and impressionist.
The aunt of a slain Washington teen advises parents to keep their children close.
When 13-year-old Alycia Nipp didn't come home from a trip to Wal-Mart, her family had no idea where she was, but a tracking device was transmitting the location of her alleged killer.
After deliberating for more than four hours, a jury convicted a Nevada man of 22 counts Tuesday for videotaping himself sexually assaulting a toddler, CNN affiliates report.
Jury selection was under way Thursday in the case of a man accused of sexually assaulting a toddler and capturing it on videotape years ago, a crime that triggered a nationwide manhunt and search for the girl when the tape surfaced in 2007.
Thirteen years to the day after a Los Angeles jury acquitted him of two murders, another jury began deliberations Friday in O.J. Simpson's armed robbery and kidnapping trial.
Attorneys in the O.J. Simpson trial present final arguments to the jury.
Testimony in the kidnapping and robbery trial of O.J. Simpson continued Thursday with a heated exchange.
Anderson talks with senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin for his take on the memorabilia trial in Las Vegas.
Nearly a year after O.J. Simpson walked into a casino hotel room intent on reclaiming some sports memorobilia, lawyers in his robbery-kidnapping trial are finally set to begin picking a jury
FSB: How to sell a cityupdated: Thu Apr 17 2008 12:55:00
What's in an urban brand? Civic leaders across the country ask that question as they strive to make their towns attractive to entrepreneurs and others in shaky economic times.
A fire at the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino in Las Vegas last week was likely caused by flying molten metal from a cutting torch being used by construction crews, the Clark County Fire Department said Thursday.
A fire charred the top of two of three wings of the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino on Friday, causing no major injuries but forcing visitors and employees to evacuate, authorities said.
Sights and sounds from a fire that broke out on top of the Monte Carlo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Kevin DuBrow, the lead singer for Quiet riot, died of an accidental cocaine overdose, the coroner in Las Vegas said Monday.
O.J. Simpson pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony charges of kidnapping and armed robbery stemming from an alleged heist of sports memorabilia from a Las Vegas hotel room in September.
Kevin DuBrow, the lead singer of the 1980s heavy metal band Quiet Riot, has died, CNN has confirmed. He was 52.
'Out of Sync'
updated: Fri Nov 02 2007 09:48:00
CNN's Melissa Long speaks with singer/actor Lance Bass about his new tell-all book.
The man arrested for the videotaped rape of a toddler in Las Vegas, Nevada, will make his initial appearance in court Friday, a Clark County, Nevada, court official told CNN Tuesday.
Memorabilia collector Bruce Fromong discusses O.J. Simpson's role in an alleged theft.
Pinal County, Ariz., was the fastest-growing housing market in the nation last year, according to a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau Wednesday.
Spice Girl Melanie Brown has secretly married her boyfriend, music producer Stephen Belafonte, in Las Vegas in June, according to marriage records in Nevada.
Temperatures reaching the 120s left millions holed up indoors Friday and made leaders in the West nervous about the strain on their cities' electric grids.
Record heat, drought spreading
Former Full House star Jodie Sweetin has tied the knot in Las Vegas, according to a marriage certificate filed in Nevada.
Forecasters predicted Friday would be another sweltering day for the Western United States, as heat warnings will remain in effect for some areas after Thursday's record-high temperatures.
Rutherford County, Tennessee had the largest rate of job growth, at 9.2 percent, of any of the 317 largest counties in the United States, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday. Results are for the year through Sept. 30, 2004.
Washington state's Mount St. Helens volcano belched a column of smoke and ash nearly six miles high Tuesday evening, leaving a plume visible for more than 50 miles, authorities reported.
Whether it's a casual tourist putting a few dollars in a slot machine, or a high-roller risking tens of thousands at the poker table, most Las Vegas gamblers have one thing in common: They believe they can win.
If you think the country is divided and rancorous about the presidential contest, try polling a few experts about the accuracy and security of electronic voting.
CNNMoney: Leaving Las Vegas?updated: Wed Aug 25 2004 09:46:00
BEND, Ore. (CNN/Money) - In Las Vegas, it's only a matter of time before your luck changes. So after enjoying the nation's most robust real estate market, homeowners there may soon discover what gamblers have always known: Fast money moves in two directions.
On Saturday, the question for Britney Spears was, "Do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband?"
Britney Spears' marriage to childhood friend Jason Allan Alexander was annulled Monday, her attorney David Chesnoff told CNN.
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