The guitars were all mounted too high on the wall for anyone but an NBA center to grab, there were no chairs to rip out and make off with, and only one drunk gal was seen attempting to jump up and bang one of the gongs hung above the stairs.
CLEVELAND — Kobe Bryant was sick. The Cleveland Cavaliers just looked it.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Martin Truex suffered through an uncertain winter, unsure if his revamped race team could take him to the top.
Helena Haley was young, a birth mother of three, and hadn’t been in Las Vegas more than a month before she was thrown out like the rest of the day’s garbage on a downtown street corner last year.
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ unorthodox partnership yielded rich rewards on Grammy night, as the pair nabbed five awards for their haunting "Raising Sand," including record and album of the year honors.
Comedy legend George Carlin‘s final project earned him a posthumous Grammy on Sunday for best comedy album.
WASHINGTON — Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., on Sunday rejected the compromise $820 billion economic stimulus bill reached Friday in the Senate, although he said he expects it will pass Congress sometime this week.
Aunt Frances and I were teasing each other when she turned to her 5-year-old daughter and said, “Call Jane a taxi.” Without hesitating my little cousin, mustering all the contempt she could, spat out a one-word epithet: “Taxi!”
It took just two months for invasive quagga mussels to find and colonize a piece of pipe that was submerged in Lake Mead as part of a test by the regional Clean Water Coalition. When it was pulled from Boulder Basin late last month, it already was speckled inside and out with juvenile quaggas no bigger than a grain of sand.
A 2.6-mile segment of a recreational trail along Las Vegas Wash that had been planned for construction last year instead was stalled by approvals from various agencies that have a stake in the wash, a city public works official said.
CARSON CITY — A Carson City church that Mark Twain helped build as a fledgling writer in the 1860s is getting financial help from the city.
A Nevada man who claims his life is in danger because his identity was compromised after he went undercover to help the FBI sniff out terrorists has filed a federal lawsuit in Washington seeking $54 million from the government.
Crystal Ralyea lives a half block from Liberty High School. She loves the peace and quiet. But her neighborhood has been affected by the distressed real estate market. The unoccupied homes help explain why Liberty High is underpopulated by 768 students. Just five miles away, Coronado High School seems worlds apart from its sister school. Coronado is 512 students over its ideal capacity.
Barack Obama, still basking in his own messianic glow, chided Senate Republicans over the weekend for not swooning and collapsing like teenage girls at a pop idol concert and simply rubber-stamping his misnamed “stimulus” package.
