RENO — A pilot was killed in a crash Saturday while tuning up for the annual Reno National Championship Air Races, authorities said.
Once upon a time, O.J. Simpson was a national sports hero, showered with adulation and endorsement contracts. He was the “Juice,” a Hall of Fame football star, actor, TV commentator and pitchman with a beautiful wife, two children and a Rolls Royce.
What Americans ought to do, the shiver-in-the-dark crowd has long advised, is simply drive less. If Americans would simply drive less, everything would be fine.
I’m considering voting for a major party’s presidential ticket this year, for the first time in decades. As a matter of fact, it would mark the first time I’ve voted the top of the ticket for this particular party in my life.
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”
In recent years, it seems that Republicans have played dirtier than Democrats at the national level, from the Willie Horton ads that ravaged Michael Dukakis to the Swift Boat campaign that torpedoed John Kerry. But if you follow politics at all, you know that members of both parties are capable of almost unspeakable smear tactics.
How in the world did the wallflower from Searchlight play such a key role in both political conventions this year?
The list of bill draft requests released by Nevada’s Legislative Counsel Bureau this far ahead of next spring’s legislative session is traditionally quite sketchy. The bills to be considered by the 2009 Legislature are still being drafted, after all.
The producers of “Shear Madness” might be living up to their show title by challenging the very definition of Las Vegas entertainment.
Throw the collected works of Anne Rice into a blender, mix in an old Chris Isaak album and a couple of hours of Skinemax, garnish with a tiny Confederate flag and serve it to David Lynch on a Louisiana front porch on a sweltering afternoon.
With nights cooling and new growth emerging on established shrubs, it’s a great time to plant vegetables, herbs, flowers, trees and shrubs. Fall planting means fewer plant losses next summer. Here are tips to make gardening easier.
Hidden away in remote locations across the Silver State stand beehive-shaped monuments to Nevada’s mining past. These conical stone or brick structures were ovens that reduced firewood to charcoal used in smelters to remove precious metals from ore. At the height of their use in the late 1800s, the charcoal ovens contributed to the denuding of forests on mountain ranges in Central and Eastern Nevada.
The holiday bazaar season is almost upon us, offering a win-win situation for all involved.
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Howie Mandel and Bonnie Hunt are bringing an element of risk to daytime TV.
High gasoline prices, rising food costs and an overall negative outlook on the economy have finally caused teenagers to rein in their spending.
She’s my favorite relative. I love her as my own breath. And I respect her. Admire her. I trust her. There is nothing I wouldn’t tell her. She’s got my back like few people have or ever will.
Francisco Menendez recently told some colleagues that he had caught a showing of “Tropic Thunder,” the Ben Stiller-Robert Downey Jr. summer hit that last weekend remained the No. 1 movie in the country.
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