Two weeks after suffering a concussion, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger accomplished the improbable Sunday. He led his team to victory as a home team in the NFL playoffs.
RENO — With its 24-hour casino gambling, legalized prostitution and drive-through wedding chapels, Nevada seems anything but conventional. But when it comes to voting in presidential elections, the maverick state is as mainstream as it gets.
In Las Vegas you roll the dice and take your chances.
Boyd Gaming Corp. Chief Executive Officer Keith Smith will become the first casino company representative on the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s board of directors. The announcement is being made today.
WASHINGTON — In a Sunday session, the Senate advanced legislation that would set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as wilderness. Majority Democrats assembled more than enough votes to overcome GOP stalling tactics in an early showdown for the new Congress.
Mayor Oscar Goodman‘s mob museum took another hit Sunday, with President-elect Barack Obama basically saying fuhgeddaboudit.
This guy’s nickname was Moe. He and his computer chip-engineer buddies stood in the hallway at Mandalay Bay, ogling porn starlets as they paraded into the Adult Video News Awards with their hanging-out cabooses in see-through “dresses.”
A 19-year-old man was shot multiple times and hospitalized in critical condition late Saturday night, North Las Vegas police said.
Bundled up on a recent Sunday in a brown winter coat, boots, gloves and a scarf covering her head, Valerie Lucas still shivered as a late afternoon wind ripped across the Clark County Social Services building parking lot.
Nearly five hours before, right at noon, the former exotic dancer joined a line off Pinto Lane with dozens of others, some with small children in tow, in her seventh attempt to receive emergency rental assistance.
RENO — A Nevada man who survived two below-freezing nights trapped in his crashed vehicle in the Sierra Nevada in November killed himself over the weekend, authorities said.
If the federal government wants a surefire way to create jobs and stimulate the economy, Pat Mulroy has a suggestion to make: Why not study and build the largest water diversion project in American history?
The 13th annual “Small Business Survival Index,” compiled by the Oakton, Virginia-based Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, ranks Nevada second nationally for its friendliness to small businesses — second only to South Dakota — primarily because of the Silver State’s favorable tax structure, the nonprofit small business advocacy group recently announced.
