Since winning office in 1999, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman has sent personalized birthday cards to the city’s 3,000 or so employees. The artistic side has been handled by Carmen Sampson, who is retiring this month after 18 years with the city of Las Vegas’ graphics department.
The Beijing Games long will be remembered for American swimmer Michael Phelps winning a remarkable eight gold medals and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt‘s dominant performances.
BEIJING — The most important part came afterward. After the survival. After the midcourt celebration. After they joined arms and stepped forward as one. After the gold medals had been slipped around their necks and the national anthem played and the American flag rose between two others. You always want yours in the middle. It’s where the winner resides.
Blake DeWitt singled in Xavier Paul with the tiebreaking run in the eighth inning, and the Las Vegas 51s gained a 7-6 victory over the Colorado Springs Sky Sox in the Pacific Coast League on Sunday at Colorado Springs.
Not even an early 8-3 deficit could derail Bishop Gorman’s magical run Sunday.
UNLV coach Mike Sanford was careful to caution it wasn’t set in stone, but the football team’s depth chart for Saturday’s opener against Utah State lists incoming freshman Phillip Payne as a starting wide receiver.
It’s no wonder John McCain gets so crotchety about celebrities because stars are aligning with Barack Obama on a massive scale. No matter what you choose to be entertained by — movies, music, TV, fashion or sports — you could be getting entertained by a famous Obama donor.
Count Pat Mulroy among the Western officials taking issue with Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s recent comments on the Colorado River Compact.
Nevadans and other Westerners overwhelmingly support efforts to stop illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border, including completing construction of a border fence and penalizing employers who hire undocumented workers, according to a new regional poll.
Boris Johnson is the mayor of London and looks like the kind of guy you would want to party with.
Luring a deep pool of new residents came easily to Nevada two years ago, when job formation clocked in at 5 percent a year.
SALT LAKE CITY — Investigators had little more than ash and blackened shards of metal to sift through Sunday as they tried to figure out what caused a twin-engine plane to crash shortly after taking off, killing all 10 people on board.
Tropicana Entertainment, LLC, filed a motion in U.S. bankruptcy court to seek a better sale price for its Indiana casino, the same day two unions voted in favor of a new contract for 750 workers at the company’s Strip property.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Wayne Stewart, managing editor of The Topeka Capital-Journal, has died. He was 57.
CARSON CITY — The never-ending battle between gun control supporters and Second Amendment advocates has nearly fallen off the charts as a significant issue either in Nevada or the West, a Review-Journal poll says.
Legislation that changes retirement benefits for government workers is having a mixed impact on local governments as the deadline nears for employees to retire or lose access to a taxpayer-funded health insurance program.
Journalist Sherry Jones, 46, had worked for a decade at the Montana Missoulian when she went back to school and, in 2006, earned her bachelor’s degree in English and creative writing from the University of Montana.
All that talk last week about energy at Sen. Harry Reid’s alternative fuels summit in Las Vegas sure got New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired up.
Everyone in Las Vegas has an opinion on traffic.