ELKO — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama stopped here in the heart of Nevada’s Republican country Wednesday to blame an unregulated Wall Street for wrecking the economy and worsening the financial future of middle-class Americans.
Pushing back against Republican John McCain’s messages to the Hispanic community, the campaign of Democrat Barack Obama began airing Spanish-language commercials Wednesday that cast Republicans as anti-immigrant demagogues.
The definition of righteous indignation: Having to be tested for hepatitis C because you might have contracted the disease during a colonoscopy. Then having to pay for the test and the colonoscopy. Then, getting a second bill for the colonoscopy you’ve already paid for.
A northwest Las Vegas development that had drawn some neighborhood opposition cleared its final hurdle Wednesday, with City Council members approving a hotel, convenience store, car wash, tavern and retail space at Durango Drive and Farm Road.
Amerigroup Nevada has replaced Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield as a health maintenance organization for the state’s Medicaid program, officials announced this week.
When Las Vegas police Detective Andy Caldwell was told O.J. Simpson was a robbery suspect, he didn’t believe what he had heard, he testified Wednesday.
The home-built airplane that plunged into a house near the North Las Vegas Airport last month had been “materially modified” before it was donated to the Salvation Army by its first builder, a Canadian pilot in San Diego, Federal Aviation Administration records show.
The name of the 4-month-old girl, Cenedi Kia Carey, who was fatally mauled by pit bulls at a North Las Vegas home Friday, was misspelled in Tuesday’s Review-Journal.
CARSON CITY — An effort to oust the state Agency for Nuclear Projects chief who gave himself and staff unauthorized raises was dismissed Wednesday by a Carson City judge, who said he did not have jurisdiction in the matter.
In a city hit hard by home foreclosures, slumping tourism and a dried-up construction sector, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on Wednesday hit his opponent hard on the economy, saying Republican John McCain lacks credibility when he says he will take things in a new direction. 
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Groups challenging the constitutionality of Nevada’s ballot process said Wednesday in U.S. District Court that the state discriminates against voters in heavily populated Clark and Washoe counties in favor of the rural counties.
WASHINGTON — Staff members from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will discuss their review of the proposed Yucca Mountain repository at a public meeting next week in Nye County, the agency said Wednesday.
CARSON CITY — A group pushing a Nevada version of California’s property tax-capping Proposition 13 claims a judge who knocked it off the Nov. 4 ballot failed to disclose he has an apparent conflict of interest in the case.
The leader of a violent prison gang was sentenced Wednesday to nearly 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to corrupting prison guards, distributing drugs and orchestrating violent attacks on fellow inmates to enhance his position with the gang.
Chen Chiang Liu dealt in counterfeit $100 bills authentic enough to trick bill validators installed in Las Vegas slot machines.
NEW YORK — A federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated a jury verdict against two former police detectives who were convicted of moonlighting as gangsters and carrying out a series of hits for the mob.
In a teeny booth at the back of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas resident Bonnie Kelso will pursue a lifelong dream sidetracked long ago by necessity.
Pop star and newly turned country crooner Jessica Simpson teams up with KTNV-TV, Channel 13, news anchor Nina Radetich to raise money for the Rape Crisis Center tonight during the fifth annual Nina’s Night Out.
At times, they sound like a muffler-less hot rod, all growling guitars and hip shakin’ rumble. At other times, they swing like a sunbaked T. Rex. Either way, Black Camaro’s got jams to spare. Singer/guitarist Brian Garth gives us a peek under the hood.
Forget the proverbial fox in the henhouse. More fun are the hens in the Fox house.
It began with a series of high fives in a dark room, delivered by a group of dudes beaming like teen boys after one of them had just lost his virginity.
Two performers from the world-famous Metropolitan Opera will join Opera Las Vegas when it presents performances of “Puccini, A 150-year Celebration” at 7 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday in the Clark County Library Theater, 1401 E. Flamingo Road.
Everyone could use a little more jazz. Jazz-on-line.com has more than 21,000 titles from well-known artists such as Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Miles Davis and more. The Web site also has links to other jazz sites, and playlists that change hourly.
One of the premier events on Southern Nevada’s festival calendar returns this weekend when the 2008 Las Vegas Greek Food Festival again unveils its unique menu of food, fun and music.
A network TV series carrying the same name as a Las Vegas show can be good publicity. Or it can be confusing. Or maybe both.
Normally, we wouldn’t advise using a video girl as fashion inspiration. But, when it’s a Robert Palmer video girl — and you can pull it off the way Hayden Panettiere does — we highly encourage it.