Kasey Kahne stood at the line, focused and ready to win — but not with his usual calm.
During his heyday as a high school wrestler, K.C. Karns was a scrappy 98-pounder who attempted to get his team off to a good start in every meet.
Congested and fighting a cold, UNLV senior Wink Adams shrugged off his symptoms as irrelevant.
The two open seats on the Boulder City Council have drawn a crowd, including three new candidates who joined the fray as filing ended there on Thursday.
CARSON CITY — A plan to allow no-warrant seizures of funds on prepaid debit cards was defended Thursday by Nevada cyber-sleuths as a way to track down terrorists and drug dealers but was criticized by foes as unconstitutional.
Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson acknowledged the storm clouds but focused on the sunshine as he delivered his final State of the City address Thursday.
And now just for you, Review-Journal readers, Paula Poundstone gives you deep thoughts — before she performs stand-up tonight at Boulder Station ($26.50-$43; 547-5300).
Telus International, a branch of a Canadian telecommunications company, is opening a call center in Las Vegas that is expected to add 1,000 jobs to the local economy over the next five years. The company plans to open in March with 100 employees, expanding to 500 workers by the end of the year.
No mixed signals over whether we’ll have mixed signals. Despite a provision in the congressional measure passed Thursday affording local broadcast channels the option to transition to all-digital signals and eliminate analog before the new, delayed June 12 deadline, Las Vegas stations will continue broadcasting in both analog and digital for the next four months, past the original Feb. 17 deadline.
A conservative think tank, a Clark County commissioner and a labor union agree on one thing: There are better ways to spend tax money during a recession than on redevelopment.
CHICAGO — Patients who got hepatitis from contaminated syringes and medicine vials are joining infection control advocates to warn Americans about a problem they say is more common than people think.
CARSON CITY — A state lawyer representing Gov. Jim Gibbons said Wednesday that the governor won’t fight a judge’s order to release six e-mails sought by the Reno Gazette-Journal.
A divorce situation led to a murder-suicide Thursday night in a southeast valley home when an estranged husband shot his wife and one of her family members before turning the gun on himself, police said.
Clark County hasn’t figured out how construction errors occurred at CityCenter’s Harmon Hotel. But it has ordered MGM-Mirage, owner of the development, to have an approved expert recheck any other work done there by Converse Consultants, whose special inspections failed to document errors in 15 of the 22 stories built so far at the Harmon.
WASHINGTON — An Oklahoma senator wants to make sure once and for all that no money in the $900 billion economic stimulus bill gets spent on the proposed organized crime museum in Las Vegas.
CARSON CITY — Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio objected Thursday when legislators spoke of trying to find state funds to open the $47 million, still-unfinished Nevada State Museum at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve.
Frank Sinatra‘s presence will loom large over the mob museum, if the project survives some political and economic hurdles.
Court officials say they have received an overwhelming response since they sent out postcards in early December to those who have outstanding traffic tickets. The demand has prompted officials to extend the program an additional week, through Feb. 13.
WASHINGTON — An offer by Republicans for the government to arrange bargain mortgage loans carrying 4 percent interest rates for millions of homeowners as a way to boost the economy was rejected in the U.S. Senate on Thursday.
Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie said Thursday that he still plans to seek an additional quarter-cent sales tax increase from the Legislature to hire more police officers this year.
The 16-year-old driver of a speeding pickup that crashed and killed a classmate was sentenced Thursday to a juvenile youth camp and community service.
Lately politicians have raised the issue of legalizing prostitution for the purposes of raising much-needed tax revenues, but they won’t find an ally in Sheriff Doug Gillespie.
The party hard Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band return to the MGM Grand Garden arena on May 16. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday at the MGM Grand box office, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, and Ticketmaster outlets.
It took more than two years to make the new stop-motion animated feature “Coraline,” which opens in theaters today.
