Former champion bodybuilder and convicted killer Craig Titus is seeking to knock off about four years from his prison sentence.
Nothing commands an October headline like a presidential poll. Sunday’s Review-Journal appeared to say it all: “Race to the Finish — Nevada poll shows Obama pulling ahead as undecideds decide.”
CARSON CITY — Ken Lambert, the chief investment officer for the Public Employees Retirement System, was more than happy in divulging he made $1.15 billion on Monday for his agency’s 104,000 members and 40,000 retirees.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons is in Washington, D.C., all this week, planning on meetings with Interior Secretary Dick Kempthorne and other Interior Department officials, a spokesman said Monday.
The political balance in Washoe County has tipped to the Democrats, according to the latest voter registration figures on file with the Nevada secretary of state’s office.
RENO — Reno-area water officials say a wet winter in the Sierra Nevada is crucial to restoring diminished water supplies.
For many thousands of America’s foster children, prospects for a permanent home and stronger support will be brighter under a new law that bridged Washington’s partisan divide and is touted as the most significant child-welfare reform in decades.
Technically, there are three weeks until the real Election Day. But the race in Nevada realistically hits its big deadline this week.
Federal handouts to failing financial firms have spawned a single, cynical question from an outraged electorate: Where’s my bailout?
The ruling political class hates the referendum and initiative process — a provision that allows citizens to vote directly on changes to the law or state constitution, bypassing Legislatures often beholden to well-heeled special interests.
Potential buyers are struggling to secure mortgages at two major condominum-hotels as credit has tightened, even for the well-to-do.
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Wynn Resorts Ltd. told investors Monday it expects to see a decline in operations from its Strip casino during the third quarter. However, the downturn is expected to be offset by improved results at the company’s casino in Macau.
Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, the Las Vegas gangster and black book member played by Robert DeNiro in the movie “Casino,” died Monday in Florida at age 79.
John L. Smith writes for Wednesday’s Review-Journal:
When I first heard Robert DeNiro had agreed to play a character based on Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal in the Martin Scorsese movie “Casino,” I couldn’t stop grinning.
It was just about perfect. I imagined Rosenthal, a man possessed of a positively gigantic ego, almost allowing himself to be impressed. DeNiro, Brando, Olivier, with the ghost of Cary Grant mixed in for good measure: That would have been ideal by Rosenthal’s measure of himself and his place in gambling’s Pantheon.