WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for “emergency and limited financial assistance” for the battered auto industry on Tuesday and urged the outgoing Bush administration to join lawmakers in reaching a quick compromise.
At 0-9, the Detroit Lions are the only winless team in the NFL. They’re also the literal laughingstocks of the league.
It has been only a few days since Greg Maddux returned from a family vacation in Hawaii. He needs a little more time to decide if he will return to pitch in the major leagues.
Thirty years later, Robert Smith still is automatic from the free-throw line.
The confidence of UNLV’s defense was so apparent against UNR on Sept. 27. The Rebels were flying to the football and delivering big hits.
With the exception of a late scoring flurry by Wink Adams, UNLV failed to impress in its only exhibition test Tuesday night.
They might be geezers in the golf world, but when it comes to swinging the club, they still have it.
No. 16 Brigham Young has long been anticipating its game at No. 8 Utah on Nov. 22. But if the Cougars aren’t careful, they could get tripped up at Air Force on Saturday.
The early November rainstorm rolled across Death Valley and the Amargosa Desert, turning the pale blue morning into a steely gray, but Beatty’s residents didn’t break stride.
Superstar Tom Jones has incorporated a recent bogus Internet report about his death into his act.
This week readers want to know whether to yield or stop at Aliante Parkway and the Las Vegas Beltway, why were the white lines, used to mark a breakdown lane, not repainted after Pollock Drive was repaved, and why do the folks at McCarran International Airport make it so difficult for people who use the remote parking lots to get to the departure terminal?
Peter Eastgate of Denmark became the World Series of Poker’s youngest champion early Tuesday morning, eclipsing a 19-year mark held by Phil Hellmuth.
A Las Vegas eye doctor who has been sued for medical malpractice at least 17 times during his career is the target of a new class-action lawsuit filed by four Las Vegas Valley residents.
The discovery of a torched car containing two charred bodies in a remote location in the southwestern Las Vegas Valley is being investigated as a double homicide, Las Vegas police said Tuesday.
Rock singer Sheryl Crow, fireworks and a few thousand locals helped open Aliante Station late Tuesday night.
Why children quit school is a complex issue rooted in poverty and parental apathy, said experts who will speak at a dropout prevention conference today.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Barack Obama won the votes of most union members who cast ballots in last week’s election, but union members in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Washington and Michigan were especially supportive of the Democratic president-elect.
North Las Vegas officials can stop pretending to be so shocked that the Casa Rosa public housing complex has turned into an uninhabitable sty of sewage leaks, collapsing stairways and ceiling mold.
A woman in the Philadelphia area sued her former employer, contending she’d been fired because she had an abortion.
Buffalo Wild Wings Grill, 190 W. Craig Road, North Las Vegas, received 17 demerits Oct. 28. Violations included cups used as scoops for condiments. GRADE: B
Oh, those pesky olive pits. Yes, they seem to give the olives more flavor, but getting rid of them can be a rather delicate situation. No wonder Sue Heiselman is looking for pitted kalamata olives, and luckily, five readers have come to her rescue.
