A simple message is printed across the back of the Centennial girls basketball team’s warm-up shirts: “We will not lower our standards to raise yours.”
• LAKE MEAD — Fishing for stripers in the Vegas Wash has been productive for anglers using cut anchovies. Hemenway has been slow, with no trout or stripers. Fishing has been good in the Echo Bay area for largemouth and stripers. Anglers have been catching stripers with cut bait in the meadows area across from Overton and Stewarts Point.
Before Anthony Marshall ever took the court for Mojave High, Rattlers coach Tony Hopkins knew he was looking at a future star.
CARSON CITY — Police and firefighter union leaders on Wednesday ripped a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce survey that found their members earn far more than those in similar jobs across the state and nation.
Three months after officials decided to demolish the crumbling Casa Rosa family public housing complex, residents there are still waiting and wondering when they will be moved from housing they say is unsafe.
With her voice clear and demeanor composed, a mother testified Wednesday about the sexual assault of her 2-year-old daughter, which was recorded on video.
A Las Vegas justice of the peace was sentenced to spend two days in jail Wednesday after he pleaded no contest to one count of misdemeanor battery domestic violence.
A recent dust-up in the Ward 6 Las Vegas City Council race drew attention to what might be one of the main issues — whether the incumbent, Steve Ross, has crossed an ethical line while serving as both a councilman and as an officer in an organization that represents construction unions.
Money for police, schools, transportation and health care would come to Nevada as a result of the omnibus spending bill that passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday, according to Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev.
“@#$%&!”
That’s what a number of NASCAR race fans — and other motorists caught unaware — might end up saying this weekend if they choose to take Interstate 15 toward the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Citing the I-15 north widening project, speedway officials warned spectators that the trip to and from the raceway this weekend will not be an easy one.
People laugh when I explain what the Chiropractic Physicians’ Board of Nevada did in 2003, then undid in 2004 after the board became a national laughing stock.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers worked Wednesday on bills to ease foreclosure problems for homeowners, health care facilities and renters, who often are unaware of their landlord’s mortgage woes until they face eviction.
Gov. Jim Gibbons is preparing a “budget supplement” with his recommendations for how to use the money the state is getting from the federal stimulus bill, he said in a podcast posted to his Web site Wednesday.
A tractor-trailer overturned on an east Las Vegas intersection Wednesday morning, spilling 5,000 pounds of a potentially explosive powder and triggering an evacuation of nearby homes and businesses.
Las Vegas police SWAT Sgt. James Pate Causey knows the perils of his job.
• A Senate panel heard testimony Wednesday on a bill to let police ticket cab passengers for not wearing seat belts, and also ticket cabbies who don’t ensure that children riding in their taxis are buckled up.
The magic is gone. Holly Madison and Criss Angel are history after a four-month relationship.
The Obama administration is poised to move forward with a blue ribbon panel to look at alternatives for dealing with radioactive waste, but the Department of Energy for now will continue to pursue a license to put it in Yucca Mountain.
Some veterans accused of nonviolent crimes would benefit from a specialized court geared toward substance abuse and mental health treatment, according to a bill sponsored by Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley and a bipartisan group of Nevada legislators.
A Family Court judge sided Wednesday with a 21-year-old woman with cerebral palsy who wants to remove a limited guardianship over her Social Security benefits.
A former baggage handler at McCarran International Airport was sentenced to more than five years in prison Wednesday for stealing weapons from checked luggage owned by a police officer and an airman.
Bless their rabbit-eared, transmitter-powered hearts.
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The best thing about Insurgo Theater’s “Cartoon” (the play) is that it feels like “Cartoon” (the cartoon). I don’t much like Steve Yockey’s 2006 heavy-handed comedy, but what’s not to like when you have a stage full of actors that seem torn from the pages of Saturday morning animation?
Las Vegas may never shed its reputation as a guy’s party town where women are commodified — but well-paid — dancin’ dolls in cabaret shows, strip clubs and nightclubs.
More than 10,000 NASCAR fans are expected to swarm the Fremont Street Experience downtown this weekend. The sixth annual RaceJam will bring entertainment highlighted by country star Trent Tomlinson and former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle, scheduled for separate (and simultaneous) Saturday night gigs.
It’s a new face with familiar features, like most offspring when the milkman isn’t involved.
This is the weekend to get up close and personal with your favorite NASCAR driver as Las Vegas welcomes the cream of the crop for the Sam’s Town 300 and the Shelby 427 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.