The room was meant for silent contemplation, a place in the hospital to sit and pray and beg a higher being for help. Maria Fragoso didn’t feel much like being quiet, and the door that took forever to close wasn’t helping.
Editor’s note: UNLV basketball player Kendall Wallace will provide occasional postcards from the team’s six-game “Down Under” tour of Australia:
The UNLV basketball team reeled off its fourth consecutive Australia exhibition victory Tuesday, pounding the South West Metro Pirates 97-55 in Brisbane.
When push comes to shove, Boston Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez proved a man in his 60s is no match for him.
Before this season, Andruw Jones never had been on the disabled list.
This week, readers want to know if it is legal for gasoline stations to change their prices more than once a day, if vehicles registered in Nevada must display two license plates (one in the front and one in the rear), and why the pavement on U.S. Highway 95 tilts toward the median near Cheyenne Avenue.
WASHINGTON — The federal railroad board has said it will consider the Department of Energy’s bid to build a nuclear waste rail line to Yucca Mountain, setting aside a Nevada protest that the application was incomplete.
A story in Tuesday’s Review-Journal misquoted Assemblyman David Parks. A quote from Parks on Nevada’s new sex offender law should have said: “I do believe in the basic tenets of it.”
Voters will be asked in November whether hotels should pay a lodging tax to offset $260 million in reduced funding for local schools expected in the next two years.
It’s an outrage. It’s a scandal. It’s un-American.
CARSON CITY — From the monumental to mundane, lawmakers have a lot on their minds for the 2009 session, a list of bills released on Tuesday would suggest.
A former New York police detective accused by authorities of helping the mafia commit murder was sentenced in Las Vegas on Tuesday after pleading guilty to filing false tax returns.
CARSON CITY — Supreme Court Justice Jim Hardesty said Tuesday that the state’s rule on term limits for elected officials is unambiguous, agreeing with arguments that 12 years in office means just that.
For the third time in less than a year, the Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday held a public hearing to consider proposed changes to the state’s public defender systems.
Casino developer Steve Wynn has put dueling pirate ships and a faux volcano on the Strip. Now the Disney of the Desert is pursuing another passion: a mega-yacht.
Mojave Max, the desert tortoise whose emergence from his burrow was a closely watched harbinger of spring’s arrival in Southern Nevada, died of natural causes Monday, a Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman said.
State budget cuts that came out of the special legislative session are forcing the Clark County School District to lay off 140 support personnel, district officials said Tuesday.
In what would appear to be an attempt to woo religious voters generally expected to vote Republican, Democratic presidential nominee-apparent Sen. Barack Obama visited a church food bank in Zanesville, Ohio, on Tuesday and called for expanding President Bush’s program that steers federal tax money to religious groups.
Craig Bechtle and his family arrived in Las Vegas from Jacksonville, Fla., one morning last week and by lunchtime were at Chicago Hot Dogs, 1078 N. Rancho Drive. Bechtle has a points-of-interest program for his global positioning system; he entered “hot dogs” and the GPS did the rest.