: I have a patio door handle that is all screwed up. The thing hardly even locks anymore. Can I repair the lock or do I have to buy a new one?
Bringing the look of your home fashion-forward as we enter the fall can be as seasonally gratifying as picking up that first new pair of patent leather Mary Janes or Burberry cardigan, according to designer Jill Abelman of Inside Style in Las Vegas.
It was somewhat funny while it lasted, but the mixed martial arts phony known as Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson is history. His 15 minutes of fame ended in a 14-second flurry Saturday night.
• ARBOR VIEW — Girls golfer Alyssa Ballew shot 85 to place first in a Northwest League match at Paiute. Boys soccer player Jonny Mayorga scored with less than five minutes left to give the Aggies a 2-1 win over Cheyenne.
Her daughter was born with a congenital heart defect, and “it’s pretty much a miracle she’s still alive,” and her grandson recently was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes.
Former Las Vegas Stars catcher Mike Basso has been named the 19th manager in the 26-year history of the city’s Triple-A franchise.
Bishop Gorman’s top three singles players didn’t drop a game in their six combined sets Wednesday as the Gaels cruised to a 13-5 win over Durango in a Sunset Region girls tennis semifinal at Darling Tennis Center.
Judging by her age alone, Melanie Chambers still should be a year from playing high school golf.
Throughout most of Nevada, Saturday is opening day of the chukar partridge, quail and duck seasons. The one exception is in the Overton Wildlife Management Area, where duck season won’t open until Nov. 1.
• LAKE MEAD — Anglers have been catching small stripers and catfish in the Vegas Bay Arm and from the shoreline at 33-Hole. A few stripers have been caught while chasing shad in Gypsum Wash.
Players vying for spots with the Wranglers get a welcome respite from the grind of training camp at 7:30 p.m. today when the team plays the Bakersfield Condors at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas’ lone preseason home game.
Tiny neon-blue pupfish that are struggling to survive in a spring-fed cave in Nye County have rebounded this fall to 126 adult fish, 34 more than last fall’s count and the highest number recorded since 2004, a federal biologist said Wednesday.
The state attorney general’s office is looking at two or three more potential targets in its investigation into theft and public corruption at the College of Southern Nevada.
A community activist group under fire for fraudulent voter registration defended itself Wednesday, saying it tried in vain to work with officials to get rogue canvassers prosecuted months before Tuesday’s surprise raid on its office by state authorities.
The O.J. Simpson jury got a thumbs up from talk-show host David Letterman.
Marc Anthony Colon is the boyfriend accused of killing his girlfriend’s daughter because the toddler caused too much drama in their lives.
Police are searching for a 27-year-old man wanted for stabbing his mother to death in their southwest valley home Wednesday morning.
A man was stabbed Wednesday afternoon and died at a valley hospital, Las Vegas police said.
A story in Wednesday’s Review-Journal misstated the day for the memorial service for Greg Jaspers, the retired Air Force pilot killed in a plane crash Sunday near Sandy Valley. The service will be 3 p.m. Friday at Nellis Air Force Base in the Red Flag auditorium. It is open to members of the public who have clearance to enter the base.
CARSON CITY — A nonpartisan group that circulated an election-season “political courage” test didn’t get any responses by a Wednesday deadline from Nevadans seeking re-election to Congress or the state Legislature.
RENO — First-term Rep. Dean Heller has opened up a lead over Democratic challenger Jill Derby, according to a poll released Wednesday.
It was a busy Wednesday morning at the “prayer booth,” where volunteers from a local church had settled in for a long day of nonstop calling on the Lord.
RENO — A new study by an environmental group that wants the sage grouse listed as a threatened or endangered species shows less than 5 percent of what’s left of its dwindling habitat across the West is federally protected.
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who campaigned Wednesday in Las Vegas on behalf of Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy, said Americans can expect to hear Obama speak far more about the differences he and Sen. John McCain have on Social Security.
During an elevator ride Monday while checking out the unfinished Lou Ruvo Brain Institute, someone asked whether anyone had Alzheimer’s in their family. Out of six people in the elevator, I was the only one who hadn’t. Silently, I gave thanks. Cancer is my family’s foe.