Britain Longmire has won two state wrestling titles and earned a college scholarship since transferring from the Cincinnati area to Cimarron-Memorial as a sophomore. A team state championship is about the only thing missing from the senior’s resume and he said he can’t think of a better way to complete his successful high school career than to lead the Spartans to their first Class 4A crown .
You undoubtedly have heard this is one of those teaching moments, when we can educate youth about making better decisions in the wake of famous people doing bad things.
Switching between three skill positions might cause some players to be overlooked in college football recruiting.
CARSON CITY — Conservative Republicans, banks and almost everyone else expressed tentative support Wednesday for Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley’s bill to lessen the foreclosure crisis in Nevada.
CARSON CITY — Legislators told Gov. Jim Gibbons on Wednesday to back off from cuts in the state agency leading the fight against federal efforts to open a high-level radioactive waste dump at Yucca Mountain.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, a frequent visitor to Nevada while he was on the campaign trail, will return to Las Vegas in the coming months, Sen. Harry Reid said Wednesday.
Singer Chris Brown, who is being investigated in connection with allegations of domestic violence involving his pop star girlfriend, Rihanna, has been taking refuge in Las Vegas, according to an entertainment news show.
CARSON CITY — The Southern Nevada Water Authority is making a major effort to get rights to water in rural valleys that could be piped to Las Vegas, but Pat Mulroy said Wednesday the pipeline project will be built only if “absolutely necessary.”
In hindsight, Billie-Marie Morrison realized she should have gone to her cardiologist after she couldn’t catch her breath while dancing at a Fourth of July party last year. But she thought it was her asthma.
WASHINGTON — A $790 billion economic stimulus bill heading toward final votes in Congress restores some of the education funding that Nevada and other states are counting on to supplement their sagging budgets, senators said Wednesday.
Scott Anderson announced his withdrawal from the Las Vegas City Council Ward 6 race on Wednesday, saying he “will not compromise my integrity or my supporters’ integrity by involving my campaign in ‘dirty politics.’ “
A group representing downtown Las Vegas businesses is raising money to combat the “collateral damage” of a campaign to force changes to the city’s redevelopment efforts.
President Barack Obama might have to hold a Cabinet meeting in a gondola at The Venetian to settle this Las Vegas kerfuffle.
The epitaph could read: Any chance for a truce between a developer and irate neighbors about a planned southwest valley graveyard is dead and buried.
It’s official. The year 2008 was the worst on record for declining gaming revenues in Nevada, falling nearly 10 percent for the year — and a whopping 18.9 percent just in the fourth quarter.
CARSON CITY — Chief Justice Jim Hardesty told lawmakers Wednesday that Nevada’s district judges have stopped “supersealing” court records, in line with a state Supreme Court order given in late 2007.
A man was stabbed to death after bumping a shopping cart into a vehicle in a southeast valley Wal-Mart parking lot Wednesday night, Las Vegas police said.
KTNV-TV, Channel 13, reporter Rikki Cheese was arrested by National Park Service rangers Saturday afternoon on allegations of driving under the influence.
A Las Vegas man followed through with his plea agreement Wednesday and admitted causing two of his children to suffer substantial mental harm.
Two brothers were indicted Wednesday on robbery and murder charges in connection with the December slaying of a Basic High School choir teacher.
It’s a bright Tuesday afternoon, and Bobby Martinez absorbs the sunlight like a solar eclipse.
To you, he’s just a big smiling train. But, to your kids, he’s a steam-spewing, track-traveling, locomoted rock star.
“Somebody get me a mirror!” commands Jerome Frazier between rump shakes, while brushing his slicked-back coif with a bejeweled right hand. Five women surge forward from the audience to comply, as though it actually is Morris Day playing Calico Jack’s on West Charleston Boulevard.
Valentine’s Day is a few days away, and perhaps you’ve found yourself without a gift to give your beloved. Head over to www.cubeecraft.com, where you download patterns, print them out, cut and fold and voila, an adorable square-headed figure. Get everyone from Superman to President Obama, and to save your bacon on Saturday, a “Val-09 Love Machine.”
Scott Weston was as surprised as anyone when “An Evening at La Cage” abruptly closed on Monday night.
