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  • The Super Bowl is still more than a week away, but the sportsbooks are already hard at work.

  • Saturday, January 28 2012 2:00 AM EST2012-01-28 07:00:47 GMT
    Street racing is an illegal and dangerous pastime that can quickly turn fatal. Now, young drivers can take their need for speed off the streets and onto the racetrack. Midnight Mayhem kicked off its eleventh season at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Friday night.

  • Friday, January 27 2012 9:34 PM EST2012-01-28 02:34:57 GMT
    When Metro officers raided a home looking for a fugitive, they found 30 marijuana plants growing inside, with a street value worth thousands.

  • Neighborhoods: Winchester

    The Hispanic Museum of Nevada opens to the public 7 p.m. Friday. The museum is inside the Boulevard Mall.

  • Friday, January 27 2012 7:28 PM EST2012-01-28 00:28:14 GMT
    Five inmates have died in recent months while in Metro Police custody. Each death was drastically different but it raises concern over how inmates are placed, evaluated and monitored.

  • Neighborhoods: North Las Vegas

    The United Way of Southern Nevada wants people to keep more of their money. The organization launched its "Earn It Keep It Save It" service Friday.

  • Friday, January 27 2012 6:52 PM EST2012-01-27 23:52:30 GMT
    It's been nearly two weeks and there are still no arrests in the murder of 17-year-old Betty Jean Pinkney. She was shot and killed at a house party early on the morning of January 15 and friends and family gathered to remember her today.

  • Neighborhoods: Downtown

    One of the most prestigious performing arts center in the country wants to help students in southern Nevada receive an education in the arts.

  • Friday, January 27 2012 5:36 PM EST2012-01-27 22:36:53 GMT
    Statewide Republican leaders announced today that they will begin releasing results of the party's February 4 statewide presidential caucus at 5 p.m. for the 16 counties in Nevada outside Clark County. Clark County's results, as of now, won't be released until after 7 p.m.

  • Neighborhoods: Nellis

    Fast, furious and legal - Dodge Midnight Mayhem returns to The Strip at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Friday night.

  • Friday, January 27 2012 4:41 PM EST2012-01-27 21:41:51 GMT
    A mass search is being organized to find any signs of a hiker who has not been heard from in almost two weeks.

  • Social media political junkies who watched Thursday night's debate among Republican presidential candidates on CNN immediately latched onto Mitt Romney's mention of Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval as a possible cabinet member.

  • Friday, January 27 2012 2:48 PM EST2012-01-27 19:48:48 GMT
     Emergency crews have transported 13 people to University Hospital in Cincinnati, with minor injuries,  after a collapse at the site of the Cincinnati Horseshoe Casino.

  • Friday, January 27 2012 2:06 PM EST2012-01-27 19:06:42 GMT
    The suspect of an attempted rape near the Strip earlier this month is a convicted sex offender who was on lifetime supervision with the Nevada Department of Parole and Probation. 8 News NOW has learned two other felons in unrelated cases have allegedly committed violent crimes while under the same kind of oversight.

  • Neighborhoods: North Las Vegas

    Ice skating in Las Vegas kind of sounds like skiing on the plains: not really a natural fit. If you want to learn to skate, though, your chance to do it for free arrives Monday.

  • Friday, January 27 2012 1:03 PM EST2012-01-27 18:03:07 GMT
    The man who died in an ATV accident Thursday afternoon northeast of Las Vegas is 63-year-old Gerard Coichette of Elmont, N.Y., according to the Clark County Coroner's Office.

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