DAY ONE OVERVIEW – With Day 1 of the Beijing Olympics almost done, the U.S. medal count was nonexistent. Cuba, Uzbekistan and 16 other countries had bragging rights over the Americans. The closest thing to glory was a Colorado resident winning gold for the Czech Republic.
It’s a time-honored tradition, and tailgating at NFL games always has been a useful tool for the sports fan.
BEIJING — Michael Phelps got one of his toughest races out of the way, and it couldn’t have been any easier.
51s pitchers gave the Sacramento River Cats 900 free feet Saturday, and it cost the team dearly.
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Kyle Busch’s dream season isn’t likely to turn into a nightmare anytime soon. The Las Vegas native will start from the pole today in the Centurion Boats at The Glen, attempting to make NASCAR history and gain a little peace of mind.
With strong arms starting on both sides, Saturday’s American Legion state tournament championship game appeared to have the all the earmarks of a pitching duel.
As early voting in a remarkably low-octane Nevada primary ended, turnout remained low, according to figures from the Clark County Election Department.
WINNEMUCCA — Although the J.C. Penney store closed a decade ago during a mining bust, there’s still a Wal-Mart and a couple of Western clothing stores. The Martin Hotel offers excellent Basque food, but the next best dining choice may be the Pizza Hut.
When I learned of the recent grand opening of the Erotic Heritage Museum, I had to smile — but not for the reason you’re thinking.
Addressing a national veterans’ convention in Las Vegas on Saturday, Republican presidential candidate John McCain criticized his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, for not supporting last year’s temporary buildup in troop levels in Iraq.
Robert Maheu, a man widely known as the face of billionaire Howard Hughes and a successful spy in World War II and the Cold War, was remembered Saturday as an enchanting raconteur, accomplished cook and impish grandfather who went by the nickname “Pepper.”
There’s buzz surrounding the IRS raid almost six months ago at Pure Nightclub at Caesars Palace and Pure Management Group’s headquarters on Industrial Road.
I have seen scorpions in my dishwasher, on the walls and near the back door of my Summerlin home. My children always run first to the exhibit of the crafty little arthropods at Red Rock Canyon. Scorpions freak me out like the thought of Tom Cruise running the world.
A headline in Saturday’s Business section incorrectly identified the spokesman who said building contractors should have the authority to conduct random drug and alcohol tests of construction workers. Steve Holloway is executive vice president of the Las Vegas chapter of the Associated General Contractors, a construction trade group that represents building contractors.
Visit the Nevada Department of Transportation’s Web site and you’ll learn that 188 people have died on our state’s highways and byways this year.
Once put on hold, the charter school movement is back in Nevada as the state Board of Education on Saturday lifted a moratorium, approved new regulations and allowed two online charter schools to expand to kindergarten through third grade.
An unemployed graphic designer who pleaded guilty to possessing toxic ricin said last week that he distilled the lethal powder in 1998 while living in San Diego from the beans of a backyard castor plant, and carried it with him for a decade while living in Reno, Las Vegas and near Salt Lake City.
SPARKS — A Washoe County sheriff’s deputy has been arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography, officers said.
Stella Wingard lives in a tiny one-bedroom in what she calls “the projects,” a bare-bones group of 84 public housing units collectively known as Ernie Cragin Annex #2.
It was a courtroom drama without the courtroom last week as the state Judicial Discipline Commission heard the case against District Judge Elizabeth Halverson, who stands accused of improperly communicating with jurors, treating her bailiff like a personal slave and falling asleep on the bench.
Clark County’s Department of Child and Family Services has never been a bastion of openness.
The “Great Man Theory” charts the course of history through the actions of prominent individuals. According to this theory, World War II is the story of decisions made by leaders such as Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
In 2001, the Orlando Sentinel filed a public records request seeking to have a private medical examiner view the autopsy photos taken after driver Dale Earnhardt was killed in a race car crash at the Daytona 500.
The leftist punditocracy, convinced that when Ronald Reagan died he left Bonzo in charge, seem overjoyed to cackle that George W. Bush is now a lame duck, a political irrelevance who retains no power to do any more than hand over the keys to the White House wine cellar. (Or is it now a tap room?)
