Apparently bored with hanging out at the White House and staring at Secret Service stiffs in suits, President Bush took his Secret Service stiffs on a trip to Beijing, where he watched as many Olympic events as possible.
Michael Johnson saw quarterback Mike Clausen scrambling, so instead of running to the flat, Johnson dashed downfield on a wheel route.
Before last season, 51s infielder Blake DeWitt’s main goal was to start the year in Double A. When he was sent instead to Class-A Inland Empire, his play suffered.
A federal judge held off on issuing a temporary restraining order Monday in the Title IX case pitting the parent of a Green Valley High School student against the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association.
Clark County’s first “probable” human West Nile virus case this year is a man in his 50s, Southern Nevada Health District officials said Monday.
Think efficient. The Chinese have a way of making things look easy.
This election year is the focus of everyone’s interest, a wide-open free-for-all contest for the highest office in the land.
CARSON CITY — Forget get all that talk about taxes in Nevada being higher than the Himalayas.
RENO — Nevada prison officials have confiscated hundreds of portable typewriters from inmates who have used them for decades to tap out legal briefs to appeal their convictions, arguing parts of the machines could be converted into weapons.
Greg Nance quit the Nevada Board of Education on Monday following a weekend of public meeting make-out sessions with his new wife.
WASHINGTON — Parts of the Endangered Species Act may soon be extinct.
Woodlawn Cemetery, which was recently added to Las Vegas’s list of historic landmarks, is described as a bedrock of community in a city often criticized for having none.
The local Republican Party could have a tough time keeping one of its two seats on the Clark County Commission after the state Supreme Court’s decision last month bumped a 27-year incumbent from the ballot.
At the Hilton’s “Star Trek” convention this weekend, George Takei signed autographs for hours while hundreds of fans — baby boomers, Gen-Xers with kids and grandparents — congratulated him on his upcoming wedding to a man.
In a story in Saturday’s Review-Journal about the collapse of Wall Arch in Arches National Park, The Associated Press reported erroneously that nearby Landscape Arch collapsed in 1991. Only a portion of Landscape Arch fell, making the arch thinner, but it is still standing.
RENO — After a year of community efforts that targeted children and educated parents about a methamphetamine epidemic, meth activity has declined, but now the use of heroin and cocaine is on the rise.
Margaret Eleanor Maul, 65, owner of a Las Vegas money management firm, died Saturday of complications from leukemia.
ELY — A federal official says a lightning-sparked wildfire has been contained after burning about 460 acres of public land about 10 miles northwest of the rural Nevada town of Hiko.
I dropped by Hillary Clinton’s “Support We Can Believe In” tour stop Friday at the Green Valley High School gym.
A tire problem appears to have triggered Sunday evening’s shuttle bus crash that injured 29 Terrible Herbst employees, investigators said.
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah man accused of failing to report that his cousin produced and possessed the deadly poison ricin has pleaded guilty to the felony criminal charge.
For nearly a year, university system Chancellor Jim Rogers and his enablers on the Board of Regents have cried to any taxpayer who’ll listen that the sky is falling on Nevada’s higher education system. Their message hasn’t wavered: Budget cuts are not only ruining the state’s public colleges, but the state itself.
If Greg Nance had any respect for the citizens of Nevada, he would have never opted to run for a seat on the State Board of Education.
Gamblers lost $949 million in Nevada casinos in June, a 1.1 percent decrease from the same period last year.