WASHINGTON — President Bush dropped the ball on rooting out terrorists in Afghanistan, and his decision this week to send more U.S. troops into the country is underwhelming at best, Sen. Harry Reid said Wednesday in a Senate speech.
Republican Rep. Jon Porter went on the attack Wednesday, starting a television ad that paints his Democratic challenger, state Sen. Dina Titus, as “a self-serving politician Nevada can’t trust.”
The 9/11 tour isn’t finished, yet Tony Quaranti can’t continue. The 55-year-old just described a twisted chunk of I-beam from the north tower. He keeps it in the garage of his Las Vegas condo, along with a sliver of World Trade Center molding and what he believes to be part of one of the two hijacked planes.
What do Western voters want? According to Republicans, it’s candidates who are from the West like them.
The suspect in a fatal stabbing at Bally’s was ordered by a judge Wednesday to be held without bail in the Clark County Detention Center.
Jury selection in O.J. Simpson’s armed robbery trial could wrap up today if the process speeds along like it did Wednesday.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons called Wednesday for state Agency for Nuclear Projects Executive Director Bob Loux to resign immediately after a preliminary audit showed he has been paying himself and his staff salaries far beyond authorized levels for at least three years.
CARSON CITY — The biggest search this year for Steve Fossett has ground to a halt with team members leaving a rugged mountain area without finding any sign of the aviator-adventurer who has been missing for a year.
Clark County School District teachers who’ve ignored union negotiations were surprised by a new $15 deduction for retiree health benefits in their paychecks Wednesday.
CARSON CITY — The secretary of state’s office on Wednesday directed county election officials to remove from their ballots Question 5, the proposal to cap property tax increases that has been ruled invalid by a judge.
A doctor for the Clark County Detention Center was arrested Wednesday afternoon after police found a crack pipe by his foot outside the Regional Justice Center.
With July’s 13 percent decline in statewide casino revenues on the books, 2008 is headed toward recording the worst ever year-over-year percentage decrease in Nevada gaming win since authorities began collecting such data more than two decades ago.
Las Vegas has put everything onstage from the sinking of the Titanic to an aerial view of a samurai battle. So it probably could field an adaptation of the movie “Point Break,” complete with surfing and a skydiving battle.
If you don’t know your ichthyosaur from your iguanadon, you might want to look up search4dinosaurs.com to see illustrations of dinosaurs great and small. The site is a collection of links to other Web pages, and some of the illustrations are bland, but most are very colorful and realistic. There’s a lot to explore here.
Performers from Las Vegas-based Broadway shows will be featured in a benefit staged reading concert of “Dracula” at the College of Southern Nevada.
It’s humankind’s original musical instrument, and whether employed in the service of a doo-wop tune, a Christmas carol or a disco ditty, an adeptly played human voice can make actual musical instruments seem, well, a bit superfluous.
It’s not cold enough inside casinos, according to one bar chain. On Sept. 26 at Mandalay Place, New Zealand-based Minus 5 is set to open the first ice lounge in the United States.
Wax figurines of prominent Hispanic celebrities are on display in a Hispanic Heritage Month exhibit at Madame Tussauds Interactive Wax Attraction.
Four individuals and a rock band who have made a lasting impact on the Las Vegas community will be inducted into the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ Hall of Fame Sept. 18.
When the economy slows, expect a woman to revise her beauty regime, but don’t expect her to eliminate it.
Four years ago, the remembrance of Sept. 11 was turned into a political issue to help George W. Bush dig in his heels on national security matters.