BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A 17-year-old Bakersfield girl has lost a two-year battle with valley fever, a usually nonfatal illness caused by fungus spores in the soil.
An electrical fire broke out at a Henderson home Saturday, displacing its residents.
Restaurateur Freddie Glusman was on the telephone from California, angry with the coverage of his arrest in an assault case.
George Lopez remembers campaigning for Bill Clinton in 1992, when Lopez’s career was just getting started and “nobody really cared what I thought.”
ELKO — Newmont Mining Corp. has been faulted for a deadly June 2007 mine accident in Northern Nevada.
WASHINGTON — Work in Congress effectively stalled last week in a bitter partisan debate over how to respond to the nation’s energy crisis.
DENVER — Judge Lael Montgomery confesses she was uneasy the first time she had to judge her own work, and read what attorneys, jurors and others thought about her, under Colorado’s performance evaluation system for judges.
ELKO — Mormon crickets were on the march in smaller numbers across Nevada this summer as predicted, experts said.
So what does one of the largest bankruptcies in Nevada history look like from street level?
It began more than 40 years ago with plans to build a resort on the shores of Lake Mead, not far from where the Las Vegas Wash empties into the reservoir.
Charged with protecting commercial airlines, the Federal Air Marshal Service has ballooned since 2001. The conduct of some Las Vegas-based air marshals has been questionable, and critics say the offenders received less-than-appropriate punishments. Yet other agents who brought attention to perceived management problems have been severely disciplined. What do these incidents say about this law enforcement agency?
One Rimer son told her about his father calling him the devil and spanking him so hard he couldn’t sit.
At the risk of quintupling the reach of his message, I must take issue with yet another editorial rant from Perry Rogers on his daddy’s television station, KVBC-TV, Channel 3.
By any measure, we are experiencing the worst housing crisis since the Great Depression. In Las Vegas, one housing price index is down 29 percent from its peak in August 2006. Foreclosures are rampant, new home sales are in the tank and consumer confidence has fallen to historic lows.
The air in Family Court Judge Sandra Pomrenze’s courtroom Thursday morning buzzed with a ticklish anticipation. Children’s laughter mixed with casual adult conversation.
Some conservatives say that the over-long, technologically indulgent and story-rich Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” justifies President Bush.
Say what you will about Alaska’s “Bridge to Nowhere” boondoggle. At least taxpayers and federal budget watchdogs screamed loud enough to keep the thing from being built.
Who says Las Vegas is last on every quality-of-life list? While the wet nurses on the Los Angeles City Council were plotting to block the construction of new fast-food restaurants, Reason magazine rated Sin City the best metropolitan area in the country in personal freedom. (Chicago brought up the rear as the nation’s foremost combination of Nanny State intervention and Big Brother regulation.)
Mark Swed, classical music critic for the Los Angeles Times, wrote a great column recently in which he challenged the negative connotation associated with the word “elitist,” especially as it relates to the arts.
Here are a few of the things in news, entertainment and popular culture that people — not necessarily you but, you know, people — were talking about last week:
Las Vegas’ Ronald McDonald House, 2323 Potosi St., celebrated its 10th anniversary with a fundraiser “Christmas in July” party at Studio 54 at the MGM Grand.
Master gardeners are dedicated community volunteers who offer advice to valley gardeners and participate in many worthwhile service projects.
This is a summer when most local entertainers could use a break. Gordie Brown got a big one.