As 59-year-old Richard Krikalo lumbers through the office of a junkyard he helps manage, he bumps into a desk and clips a wastebasket with his right leg.
With the finish line of a long and hard-fought presidential campaign looming into view, Democratic nominee Barack Obama told a Las Vegas crowd of 18,000 on Saturday not to stop fighting.
RENO — The class is Economics 411. The subject is gambling. The instructor is gambling expert Bill Eadington, director of the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno.
RENO — A panel formed by Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons to reduce government waste is considering major reductions in state employee health and retirement benefits.
As early voting reached the halfway point, Nevada voters continued to turn out in droves, with 160,000 going to the polls in Clark County in the first seven days of the 14-day pre-election period.
Stephens Media President Sherman Frederick, a former Review-Journal reporter, editor and publisher, was honored by his college alma mater Saturday with the Dwight Patterson Alumnus of the Year award from Northern Arizona University.
The father of a young Las Vegas girl said he disappeared because he wanted to protect her emotional health and not because he is guilty of molesting her.
An east Las Vegas home was destroyed in a Saturday afternoon blaze.
Sam Schmidt’s life has been defined by his passions, but he readily admits politics isn’t one of them.
I was driving north on Martin Luther King Boulevard when I looked in the rearview mirror to see three teenage girls in a silver Mercedes sedan motoring behind me.
Bad childhood memories — that was my first reaction to Sen. Joe Biden promising us that a President Barack Obama will be “tested” with an international crisis, just like President John Kennedy was “tested.”
John McCain has offered “little more than willful ignorance, wishful thinking, and outdated ideology” to cope with the nation’s financial crisis.
The final presidential debate revealed both candidates agreeing on something: charter schools as a solution for public education in America. Nationally, more than 4,000 charter schools are fostering competition and providing public school choice to families.
Since Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored housing enterprises (GSEs), were taken over by their regulator early in September, a lot of Monday-morning quarterbacks claim to have been members of the team trying to reform these two gigantic companies.
Here we go again in our never-ending quest for your right to know. Up against the gale force of obstreperous bureaucrats and their arsenal of obfuscation, dalliance and outright deception.
You’re a doctor. You need to bring in $3,000 apiece for your most common procedure. But Medicare and Medicaid — which pay for about half your patients — have just told you they’re only going to pay you one-third of what they’re billed. What do you do? You don’t need to be a CPA to know the answer is to start billing everyone $4,500 for your procedure. The half of your patients who pay full price thus pay $1,500 extra, covering the shortfall for each Medicare/Medicaid-covered procedure.
The ticking time bomb that is Joe Biden’s mouth went off. There was a reason I’d been covering up every time he started talking.
Not surprisingly, the roster of celebrities who have played Las Vegas at some point in their careers is incredibly long.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in an occasional series of stories highlighting performers who played an interesting role in the history of entertainment in Las Vegas.
Over the years, it’s been pretty easy to marginalize the fantasy genre. After all, aside from the occasional Hollywood blockbuster, the closest the sword-and-sorcery set usually gets to the mainstream is the songs of Ronnie James Dio and the murals on the sides of custom vans.
The man and the woman are engaged to be married. But I don’t think they’re gonna make it. And they’re gonna blame it on their children.
Even if it happened in Vegas a hundred years ago, it apparently stays here.
The Las Vegas chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People celebrated its 50th anniversary at the Freedom Fund Banquet on Oct. 18 at the Las Vegas Hilton.