Las Vegas Little Theatre’s “House of Blue Leaves” reminded me of an important rule in play-going: Don’t give up hope until you see the second act.
Cheyenne and Palo Verde spent most of the season as the favorites in the Sunset Region, splitting time atop the Class 4A coaches’ poll.
Dr. Donald Romeo liked to joke about the thousands of lives he touched by saying, “I took care of them from the womb to the tomb.”
With eight players in the American Hockey League and two others out with injuries, the Wranglers are short-handed — and it showed in a 2-1 loss to Phoenix on Monday at the Orleans Arena.
A buzz spread through the small gym as Victor Rudd played with the basketball as if it was a yo-yo. Echoes bounced off the walls while he put on a big-time show.
The main event of Saturday’s Ultimate Fighting Championship card in London is an intriguing lightweight fight between Joe Stevenson and Diego Sanchez.
A Vegas snapshot: The Doobie Brothers came to town Saturday for a concert, and while they were here, they decided to pose for a new set of press kit photos. They called in a heavy hitter of entertainment photojournalism: Jim (expletive) Marshall.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Shelley Berkley is in Taiwan this week after being invited to attend ceremonies marking 30 years of a U.S. diplomatic policy with the island republic, her office said.
CARSON CITY — Legislative fiscal analysts calculated that state government will net about $480 million in federal economic stimulus funds that can be used to plug part of a $1.8 billion hole in the governor’s budget, Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley said Monday.
RENO — Conservationists argue in a new report that U.S. taxpayers should stop subsidizing a $100 million program that kills more than 1 million wild animals annually, a program ranchers and farmers have defended for nearly a century as critical to protecting their livestock from predators.
What began as a murder-for-hire investigation ended with authorities breaking up what is thought to be the largest identity theft laboratory in Nye County history, a county sheriff’s official said Monday.
In an attempt to save money, University Medical Center administrators have asked medical groups and contracted health care providers to consider taking less to help lower the public facility’s growing debt.
The city of Las Vegas has flirted with the nation’s premier academic medical centers for years. Now that courtship finally has produced a long-term relationship. Under an agreement between one of the world’s best-known institutes of medicine and medical research and the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute, the Cleveland Clinic will operate a brain center in Las Vegas.
WASHINGTON — The government affairs arm of the nuclear industry on Monday called for President Barack Obama to convene a blue ribbon nuclear waste commission, a move that could be a first step toward forming alternatives to burying radioactive power plant fuel at Yucca Mountain.
The revamped University Medical Center Foundation will present $1 million to UMC on behalf of UnitedHealth Care of Nevada and the Tony and Renee Marlon Charitable Foundation today.
Las Vegas police will not pursue charges against a northeast valley resident who fatally shot a home intruder over the weekend, authorities said Monday.
CARSON CITY — State officials warned Monday that proposed staffing cuts for the Nevada Equal Rights Commission will increase the time needed by the panel to resolve job discrimination claims, prompting criticism from a lawmaker.