Growing up homeless on the streets of Washington, D.C., Anthony Peterson came to the realization at a young age that if he didn’t change his ways, he had two potential final destinations. And neither was appealing.
• LAKE MEAD — The Vegas Bay arm has been giving up a lot of small striped bass, but this week a lucky angler reeled in a 20-pound striper.
Anglers who fish at Willow Beach soon will have a new fishing pier that will give them a chance to reach fish that congregate a little farther off shore than the average guy can cast his bait. Those fishermen who long have yearned to fish from the nearby boat docks will have a floating platform from which to do so.
Despite sliding much lower than expected in the major league draft, Xavier Scruggs will not be returning for his senior season at UNLV.
One day after he graduated from UNLV, Curtis Terry experienced what he called a “freak accident” that could be a setback to his pro career.
The final prefight news conference had just concluded Wednesday and the media were three deep around Manny Pacquiao’s table.
A Nevada governor facing a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall. Public employees scheduled to receive 4 percent “cost-of-living” raises despite shrinking state revenues. A fierce debate over whether lawmakers should be called into special session to address the budget woes — and whether axing the raises or layoffs should be part of the solution.
It was largely fiction, of course. They had to reach far back into the career of railroad lawyer Abe Lincoln to find a case in which he’d defended a pair of farmers accused of manslaughter.
Overeaters Anonymous, a 12-step program for compulsive and other eating disorders, meets at 9:30 a.m. Fridays in the library at Green Valley United Methodist Church, 2200 Robindale Road, Henderson (866-6682).
The Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation will partner with the Torino Foundation and the Clark County School District by creating the Torino Classroom in Sunrise Children’s Hospital. The program, the third of its kind in the country, ensures in-patient children at the hospital receive classroom education during their hospital stay, including home tutoring. A party followed the announcement June 19 at the Torino Foundation on Wagon Trail Avenue.
Will we still need them, will we still heed them, when they’re 44?
Vegas radio’s self-titled “Jewel” got a little chipped this week when KJUL-FM, 104.7, was forced off the air Monday afternoon for several days due to technical problems.
You’re at a business dinner and bite into a piece of meat that’s tough and difficult to chew.
R-J entertainment columnist Mike Weatherford writes Thursday on a moment of Zen from Terry Lewis: “What is is built on what was, and what will be is built on what was and what is. And we’ll just go from there.” Lewis is talking about The Time, the party-funk band from the Prince school whose original lineup has reunited this summer for three engagements at the Flamingo Las Vegas.
The Service Employees International Union’s Local 1107 was scheduled to change its leadership following a board meeting Wednesday night.
Golden Gaming announced Wednesday an $11 million expansion and renovation of the Pahrump Nugget a week after deciding not to acquire a competing area property.
WASHINGTON — The House soundly defeated a plan Wednesday that would have advanced two proposed Indian casinos in Michigan as gambling opponents, Nevada political leaders and others protecting Detroit’s casinos rallied to scuttle the bill.
The Federal Reserve’s decision to leave rates unchanged is good news for Western banks, but the board will need to raise rates soon, local banking officials said Wednesday.
Slot machines flickered to life Wednesday at the Moulin Rouge, the first racially integrated casino in Las Vegas, which hasn’t operated as a functioning business since 1955.
WASHINGTON — Any chance of Congress rolling back an Internet gambling ban this year died Wednesday when a House committee deadlocked on an amendment to prevent federal agencies from drafting regulations to enforce the ban.
Throwing his usual cautious optimism to the wind, UNLV economist Keith Schwer boldly declared Wednesday that Southern Nevada’s economy has indeed entered a recession.