With his next scheduled fight about a month away, Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight Josh Neer rang in 2009 behind bars after being arrested in his hometown of Des Moines, Iowa, early on New Year’s Day.
Legacy was a surprise success during football season. Now the Longhorns’ boys basketball team might follow suit.
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Left out of the BCS national championship game, Colt McCoy and Texas made the most of their trip to the Fiesta Bowl.
The number of new cars and trucks sold in Southern Nevada nose-dived 54 percent in December from the same month a year ago as dealers struggled to stay in business, a local dealer said Monday.
A veteran Mesquite police officer has been fired amid allegations he sexually assaulted two women, including one while he was on duty.
The Nevada group looking into judicial reforms is urging the state commission responsible for disciplining judges to be more open and work faster to settle complaints against judges.
The Clark County Commission has all Democrats for the first time in 40 years.
Dr. Meena Vohra has gone nearly two decades without an increase in contract pay for providing care to children with life-threatening illnesses at University Medical Center.
Rep.-elect Dina Titus was named Monday to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of the House of Representatives, the first committee assignment for the newly elected Democratic congresswoman from Nevada’s 3rd District.
“Mamma Mia!” closed in Las Vegas for good Sunday night, even though it still was earning money and standing ovations. It met its end to make way for younger royalty: “The Lion King” takes its crown at Mandalay Bay in April. “Mamma Mia” was 6 years old.
Due to a technical error, the number “20” was mistakenly placed in a Monday story about Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The story should have said, “Citing unidentified sources, the Chicago Sun-Times reported over the weekend that Reid had lobbied Blagojevich to name state Attorney General Lisa Madigan or state Veterans Affairs chief Tammy Duckworth to succeed (President-elect Barack) Obama in the Senate.”
I resolved to quit several bad habits in 2009. Unfortunately, I’m off to a slow start.
CARSON CITY — New Nevada Supreme Court Justice Kris Pickering said Monday that judges must be above politics and make decisions that accurately reflect state laws and the constitution.
WASHINGTON — A few weeks after Sen. Harry Reid declared that the Yucca Mountain project was going to “bleed real hard” in the coming year, he said Monday that the already reduced budget for the controversial nuclear waste plan will be cut “significantly” for the remainder of 2009, and that a 2010 White House spending request will contain “little if anything at all.”
Defense attorneys Monday alleged more government misconduct as an evidentiary hearing explored whether federal agents acted inappropriately in a 15-month sting operation designed to catch Las Vegas’ most violent criminals.
Two families that contend their properties lost value because of height limits imposed near McCarran International Airport won settlements totaling $31 million from Clark County.
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats struggled to avert a showdown steeped in race and corruption Monday as Roland Burris declared “I’m a United States senator” and flew to the capital to claim President-elect Barack Obama’s old seat in Congress.
The sudden reversal of this city’s economic fortunes was supposed to bring fundamental change to the way Nevada governments pay public employees. Elected officials were supposed to realize that the only way to balance their budgets and stabilize future services was to break free from the choke hold of unsustainable labor costs.
Management at McCarran International Airport is making about $30 million in budget cuts in response to a sharp decline in commercial air traffic to and from Las Vegas.
Glenn Christenson plans to approach his new job as chairman of the National Center for Responsible Gaming by completely researching and understanding problem gambling.
