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SAN DIEGO — A diaper bag is a serviceable item with benefits. So is the cup holder in a movie theater seat. So is the string from which your sunglasses dangle.
Given what the Los Angeles Lakers accomplished during the playoffs last season, expectations are lofty heading into the 2008-09 NBA season. Andrew Bynum has a lot to do with the high hopes Lakers fans are clinging to.
The Democrats have been beating up on two vulnerable Republican state senators for weeks. The Republicans have done nothing to counter it. So others have stepped in.
A felony bad-check charge against suspended Las Vegas lawyer Jeanne Winkler was dismissed last month after she paid about $7,000 in restitution.
CARSON CITY — Likely voters by nearly a 3-to-1 margin favor passing a state constitutional amendment in November that would prevent governments from using the power of eminent domain to seize private property and then turn it over to developers, a Review-Journal poll shows.
CARSON CITY — Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., holds a commanding 13 percentage point lead over former state Democratic Party chairwoman Jill Derby in their rematch for the 2nd Congressional District seat, according to a new poll commissioned by the Review-Journal.
CARSON CITY — The two members of the judiciary running for seats on the Nevada Supreme Court lead their attorney opponents, but most voters have yet to make up their minds in the races, a Review-Journal poll shows.
GERLACH — The Gerlach-area’s only grocery store, a last stop for Burning Man festival participants on their way to the Black Rock Desert, has closed indefinitely.
A 22-year-old Las Vegas man died after being shot several times early Sunday near Charleston Boulevard and 17th Street, Las Vegas police said.
STARon sounds like something out of “Star Trek,” but the proposed disciplinary program for students actually has more in common with “The Breakfast Club.”
The financially troubled owner of the Las Vegas Marathon has agreed to a partnership designed to finally put the event on terra firma for this year’s Dec. 7 race and beyond.
Nobody asked me, and billionaires rarely take my advice anyway, but may I make a suggestion? The Plaza in downtown Las Vegas needs to go back to its original name, the Union Plaza. Many of us never stopped calling it that. Never made the transition to calling it Jackie Gaughan’s Plaza or just the Plaza.
The contemporary American family loves a good show of breasts and transvestites, but they don’t take kindly to staged violence against women. I came to this conclusion after checking out one of the biggest, happiest family days of the year: the Age of Chivalry Renaissance Festival at Sunset Park.
Emptying the notebook after the 13th Andre Agassi Grand Slam for Children benefit concert on Saturday at Wynn Las Vegas:
Cindy Florez can’t always remember the name of the man who will get her vote for president, but she knows his party and that’s enough.
A campaign finance “watchdog” outfit last week filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission against two groups — one pro-Republican and the other pro-Democrat — alleging they violated the law by airing political ads during the current presidential campaign.
The state’s financial picture continues to worsen as the nation’s economy slips toward recession.
Log onto the Las Vegas Business Press Web site and let us hear your opinion on this week’s question.
A 14,000-square-foot home at 59 Promontory Ridge in the master-planned Summerlin community closed escrow Oct. 3 for $11.5 million, the highest residential transaction so far this year in Las Vegas.
Jim Mace has witnessed Las Vegas in all its modern-day iterations, from a midsized town of 650,000 to a sophisticated metropolis where developers deploy today’s most advanced design and construction techniques.