President Clinton and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin are headed to Southern Nevada to campaign for their respective parties as the election draws near.
CARSON CITY — New reports show Nevada’s Democratic and Republican candidates for the state’s three congressional seats raised about $8 million in contributions and spent more than $5 million in campaigning through September.
WASHINGTON — After finding several passenger aircraft engines with damaged and missing parts, safety officials on Thursday urged the Federal Aviation Administration to order inspections of similar engines, particularly those long in service.
RENO — Reno Police Chief Michael Poehlman took exception Thursday to claims by the Washoe County sheriff that consolidating the area’s three law enforcement agencies would save money and benefit taxpayers.
CARSON CITY — Automated phone calls from the McCain camp that began a day after John McCain’s last presidential campaign debate with Barack Obama continue the effort to link the front-running Democratic nominee with one-time Weather Underground leader William Ayers.
Vehicles including iconic vintage race cars, classic Detroit muscle cars and one-of-a-kind collectibles are on display at the Mandalay Bay Events Center through Saturday. The collector car event, sponsored by the Barrett-Jackson Auction Company, will allow car enthusiasts to feast their eyes and take part in auction action scheduled for today and Saturday. Event hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. An entry fee that varies for each day of the event is charged. For more information, call 474-4000.
For signs Nevada remains a presidential battleground state, note the increased traffic at McCarran Airport as high-flying Democrats and Republicans make their way here.
WASHINGTON — Twenty years after President Reagan signed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, tribal casinos rake in more money than those in Las Vegas and Atlantic City combined.
Comedian-actor Jay Mohr isn’t a big political player in Hollywood, but he does have tangential connections to two political campaigns — Barack Obama’s and Al Franken’s.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court announced Thursday that it made five times the budget cuts requested by Gov. Jim Gibbons during the fiscal year that ended June 30.
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — A man trying to board a flight to Las Vegas was arrested Thursday after a pipe bomb, knife, fireworks and suspicious electronics were found in his luggage at a Long Island airport, authorities said.
A husband and wife will serve time in a federal prison for operating illegal brothels in Las Vegas that used illegal immigrants as prostitutes.
The mysterious death of mentalist Jason Scott, one of the original 10 contestants for NBC’s “Phenomenon” series a year ago, has been ruled an accident from mixing a pain killer with alcohol.
Since Hollywood people marry Hollywood people, Jay Mohr — this weekend’s star comedian at The Orleans — is married to Nikki Cox. You may know Cox as the former star of “Las Vegas.” But she started out as a young dancer, appearing in a Michael Jackson video and in a few episodes of “Blossom” and “Mama’s Family.”
The Palms is running two identical cash and car drawings this month called October Wheels – one for video poker on Oct. 27 and the other for slots on Oct. 30. Slot and video poker players earn tickets while playing the machines (please note that all slot machines are included, but several video poker machines have been excluded). Every night through Oct. 26, five video poker players will receive $50 free play plus an Oct. 27 drawing ticket, and another 20 winners will just receive drawing tickets. At a separate nightly drawing (through Oct. 29), five slot players will receive $50 and an Oct. 30 drawing ticket while another 20 winners will receive drawing tickets only. Winners need not be present at the drawings but must collect free play and drawing tickets within 24 hours. First place at both drawings is a 2009 Camry Hybrid and the next nine places share $6,500. On Oct. 30, an identical drawing will be held for the slot ticket winners. At these final drawings, winners must be present.
He’s given you so, so much — a friend, a role model, a reason for being, a really funny song about putting one’s manhood in a box — and now he’s giving you even more.
Louis’s Las Vegas has made a pimento-cheese believer out of me, and trust me, that’s a real feat.
Justin Timberlake showed up on the Las Vegas radar almost 10 years ago when ‘N Sync appeared at the Thomas & Mack Arena for a New Year’s Day 1999 concert.
“Raw Talent Live” was created in a vacuum. And those who remember their middle-school science know what happens when vacuums are breached. If you don’t, go smash a light bulb or your middle-school thermos.
Perennial chart-topping singer-songwriter Neil Diamond headlines the MGM Grand Garden arena on Jan. 2. Tickets are $50, $100 and $175 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday at the MGM Grand box office, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, and Ticketmaster outlets.
The strange thing about “Dracula” is that just about everybody knows at least the broad strokes of the story, but hardly anybody has read it.
By his own admission, George W. Bush has his faults, so it seems almost fitting that “W.” should have them, too.
“Are we human?” Brandon Flowers asks. “Or are we dancer?”
Rampart Casino will celebrate Oktoberfest from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday on the resort’s Addison’s Lawn. German food and beer and music by the Dumkopfs will be included. The all-you-can-eat special is $25 per person, or $40 per person with bottomless German draft beer. Tickets are on sale at the casino’s main cage. …
Aside from those who have had a case heard there — and in those instances, opinions are rarely ambivalent — public interest in the Family Division of the District Court is sporadic.