Atmospheric pressure had a whole new meaning for KLAS-TV, Channel 8 weatherman Tedd Florendo during the New Year’s Eve broadcast.
RENO — Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki defended himself Saturday in the latest round of a public feud he is having with Gov. Jim Gibbons, a fellow Republican who had charged Krolicki went on a state-sanctioned trip to China for fun instead of promoting tourism.
I’ve tried to start this column 100 times. Each time I attempt to write about the death of brave 10-year-old cancer fighter Brandon Rayner, I always return to thoughts of my Amelia and her cancer struggle.
With 188 people under his command, Air Force Air Reserve Lt. Col. Kenneth C. Evans oversaw $38 million in construction at the Kirkuk Regional Air Base in northern Iraq.
The driver of a van was killed Saturday morning after driving the vehicle into the back of a tractor-trailer parked beside Interstate 15.
When Bill Runyon and Cashious O’Brien got married in early July, the two men shed tears of joy. At least in California, their devotion to each other was legally recognized.
He’s the Bedazzler in human form, a walking, talking rhinestone, his voice a husky summation of all that glitters.
STATELINE — Norma Thayer found paradise on the shores of Lake Tahoe three decades ago. Years later, a developer did the same thing.
Gregory Kamm of Las Vegas did close combat on the streets of Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. He didn’t think he’d have to fight just as hard to find a job in Las Vegas in 2008, after completing earlier this year his third deployment.
A BLOOD DRIVE WAS HELD AT THE HARD ROCK HOTEL on New Year’s Day. Officials said they weren’t worried about donors showing up with too much alcohol in their system after a night of New Year’s Eve revelry.
Art Goldstrom remembers the night in June 1980 when he and his wife, along with two other couples, were the first guests at Andre’s in downtown Las Vegas, named for chef and proprietor Andre Rochat.
CHICAGO — Illinois’ embattled governor complained through his spokesman Saturday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is guilty of a conflict of interest in that Reid telephoned him in early December to discuss the seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
There was a big ole party Wednesday in Las Vegas. Official estimates say 291,000 people showed up for New Year’s Eve festivities, halfway between last year’s number and the year before. A record 30,000 were at downtown’s Fremont Street Experience.
More than a few people are worried about a lawsuit filed two weeks ago to stop the ongoing Interstate 15 north widening project.
Constant Californian writes to respond to my piece on the global cooling of 2008:
“What I do know is that we created one of the greatest college savings plans in the country. It was balanced to the penny when I left office.”
In addition to making it easier for coal miners to pollute rivers and streams, allowing more mining in lands adjacent to national parks and implementing rules that weaken the Endangered Species Act, the Bush administration last month gave the National Rifle Association a parting gift by lifting a decades-long ban on concealed weapons in national parks.
Las Vegas police officers served a search warrant at the Seven Hills home of Emmanuel Dozier on Panorama Ridge Drive in Henderson at about 9:30 last Sunday evening.
My new year’s resolutions are like those of most Americans: get to the gym more often, get my cholesterol count down, eat an apple a day.
One thing that’s become obvious, even at elite levels in this country, is that we don’t really believe a man is innocent until proved guilty.
Gov. Jim Gibbons believes Kirk Montero, 60, a station manager for US Airways at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport, should be the next executive director of the Nevada Commission on Tourism.
Over the holidays, a spirited debate took place about the U.S. senator Nevadans love to hate: Harry Reid.
We’re only four days into 2009 and already colors look brighter, music sounds sweeter and Tyra Banks seems less full of herself.