China is expected to set a new standard for spectacle today when it kicks off the 2008 Summer Games with an opening ceremony meant to wow the world and proclaim the arrival of a new global power to be reckoned with.
The Green Valley baseball team got away with its first five errors Thursday with relatively little damage.
After weeks of do-nothing clouds and teasing humidity, the valley was pounded by a storm cell Thursday that forced road closures, stranded motorists and left a Henderson boy and his mother injured by a lightning strike.
A 21-year-old Las Vegas man who was at the wheel when his passengers fired deadly shots at two teens in January 2006 was sentenced Thursday to a minimum of 48 years in prison.
Fourteen-year-old Alexis Shill stood at a northeast valley taco shop listening to an anti-gang message as it blared from two loudspeakers.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Dean Heller on Thursday said Republicans are helping to lower gasoline prices by protesting the five-week congressional recess and urging lawmakers to come back and vote on off-shore drilling.
Airmen who operate Predator drones over Iraq via remote control, launching deadly missile attacks from the safety of ground stations in Southern Nevada and California more than 7,000 miles away, are suffering some of the same psychological stresses as their comrades on the battlefield.
Its fundraising success was once touted as a sign that philanthropy in Las Vegas could be maturing, but on Thursday the Nevada Cancer Institute laid off 50 staffers and said the worsening economy has hurt its donations.
Three of the 10 workers observed by the Review-Journal drinking at area bars before entering the CityCenter job site have been fired, an executive for Perini Corp. said Thursday
CARSON CITY — A panel that oversees the state health insurance plan voted Thursday to delay an effort to offer benefits to domestic partners .
CARSON CITY — Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons has urged the state Ethics Commission to ignore “wild hearsay” and dismiss a state Democratic Party complaint alleging that he abused his position to get a big tax break on 40 acres he owns in eastern Nevada.
RENO — A Nevada prison inmate serving time for burglary has been indicted for murder in a fatal shooting over a drug deal five years ago — charges brought after scientists found the victim’s remains while doing research north of Pyramid Lake.
1. This is a country we don’t want to invade. Of the 1.3 billion people, 700 million seem to be dressed as police officers and security personnel while standing at attention. They’re guarding everything from cell phone towers in barren fields to firetrucks outside media village apartments. One policeman just stares at a barb-wired fence all day, a tad more busy than a parking attendant at UNLV football games.
Every now and then, Wayne Brady goes onstage at The Venetian and he sees a guy in the front row wearing gym shorts — and no underwear. What kind of guy does that? And what does that guy say to his wife when they’re getting dressed?
District Judge Elizabeth Halverson’s former bailiff claims the suspended judge treated him like a personal servant, but Halverson says she’s the victim.
A California-based nonprofit group suing to reform the Clark County child welfare system won a long-fought battle in federal court Thursday when a judge ordered the county to hand over hundreds of files detailing investigations of abuse against foster children.
After much haggling, a waste hauler has agreed to finish cleaning up the troubled Sunrise landfill that disgorged heaps of smelly refuse into the Las Vegas wash in 1998 when floodwaters tore open its earthen cap.
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Every summer, gamers ask me their best question of the year: Do they really have to buy the new “Madden NFL” football game? After all, each year’s “Madden” looks and plays pretty much like the previous year’s model. So why spend $60 on the same new thing?
The “Rock Band Live Tour,” featuring Panic at the Disco, Dashboard Confessional, Plain White T’s and The Cab, stops at the Paradise Stage at the Hard Rock Hotel on Oct. 9. Tickets start at $39.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. today at the Hard Rock box office, 4455 Paradise Road, and Ticketmaster outlets.