A charter school applicant came under scrutiny Saturday as Nevada education officials questioned whether the school’s administrators mishandled more than $50,000 in federal funds.
Andre Agassi‘s former manager, Perry Rogers, has filed a lawsuit against Agassi’s wife, retired tennis star Steffi Graf, claiming breach of contract.
For more than 13 years, he has been widely regarded as the man who got away with murder. But on Friday, O.J. Simpson was punished for other crimes: last year’s kidnapping and armed robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers at Palace Station.
RENO — Prosecutors have filed three new rape charges against a man accused of killing a college student.
This week’s special legislative session promises all the drama of a professional wrestling match. There will be posturing and grandstanding, all right. But whatever deal is struck to cover a state revenue shortfall of $342 million will be staged to the last punch and wail. The whole thing is being scripted in secret meetings in Carson City.
O.J. Simpson is the former football star and movie actor who was acquitted of murder in a criminal trial 13 years ago in the Los Angeles slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
In this holiday season, it’s hard to be hard-hearted. So you’ll pardon me if this week I refrain from writing one of my usual missives condemning the waste, fraud, arrogance and generally thuggish behavior of our government masters.
Georgia had its runoff for the U.S. Senate last week to settle things between Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss and Democratic challenger Jim Martin.
One of the purposes of education is to convey a society’s mores, customs, morality, body of knowledge and traditions from one generation to the next.
It is a travesty that the American people do not appreciate one of the greatest assets they can have at no direct cost. Maybe that is why it goes unappreciated.
The federal government’s crisis response has taken quite a beating lately. Its reaction, or lack thereof, to Hurricane Katrina confirmed for many people that the federal government was asleep at the switch in the aftermath of a terrible natural disaster. More recently, the meltdown in the financial sector has exposed severe weaknesses in the government’s ability to recognize and act quickly to confront a major economic crisis.
While striving to meet the growing demand for wine in this country, the wine industry expands into unlikely areas for viticulture, places once considered too extreme for grapes to flourish. Located in the Mojave Desert just a mountain range away from Death Valley, the driest place in North America, Pahrump Valley ranks among the most unlikely locations for a winery. But there sits the Pahrump Valley Winery, a winebibber’s oasis just an hour’s drive from Las Vegas on Highway 160.
he holidays are supposed to be a time when families celebrate, exchange gifts, share special meals, practice forgiveness and create lifelong memories.
There’s still time to employ your lyric-writing talents in service to our off-kilter tribute to Christmas music.
The holidays aren’t the holidays without poinsettias, Christmas cactus, kalanchoe or amaryllis on display. These plants make up a big part of the festive season. Next to the Christmas tree, the poinsettia is the plant most identified with the holiday season.
Somewhere at a happy hour in Boston tonight, two men will be sitting at a bar having a conversation like this:
A recent spate of high profile cases in Las Vegas serve as a stark reminder that domestic violence can affect any family regardless of background, profession or socioeconomic standings, advocates say.
The Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation had its 15th annual Profiles of Courage dinner and auction on Nov. 22 at The Mirage Events Center, with more than 1,000 guests in attendance.
