Doctors upgraded the medical status of several Chinese tourists and some were released from an Arizona hospital on Saturday, a day after they were involved in a fatal rollover accident south of Hoover Dam.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — A Bullhead City woman who severely abused her 3-year-old son and admitted allowing her roommates to do the same has been sentenced to prison for 121/2 years.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s bid to spark the flagging economy through a combination of tax cuts and infusions of federal spending passed its first major test in Congress last week.
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Orange County investigators say a felon sought for million-dollar Newport Beach burglaries has been arrested in Las Vegas.
When Gov. Jim Gibbons proposed that nearly three-fourths of all the state’s budget cuts should come from its higher education system, Chancellor Jim Rogers had an “uh oh” moment.
Roughly 128,000 Nevadans found themselves out of work last month, according to figures released by state officials.
When you are in the communication business, you come to appreciate the finer aspects of public discourse in a freewheeling democracy. You respect those who engage in debate with facts and figures, who cite precedent, who quote documents and authorities, who turn a clever phrase, who craft a believable forecast, who use logic, allegory and analysis — even if you ultimately disagree.
President Obama insists in public statements that his administration strives for openness and that his policies seek fairness for working families.
You thought the 2007 legislative session was petty and personal? You say the partisan gamesmanship, overtime drama and back-room tax increases of 2003 can’t possibly be repeated? That voters will never endure a more selfish slap from lawmakers than the 1989 veto override to quadruple legislative pensions?
Peggy Brown, a retired local poker dealer whom I’ve known for some years as an upstanding and truthful sort, writes in that her 2003 Dodge Neon was in storage for nine months while she was out of state.
For a country with founding fathers who wanted to keep the government separate from the varied organized practices of religion, there certainly was a whole lot of polarizing praying going on at the inauguration of Barack Obama as president.
He describes his extended family as “like walking into the 1950s … like watching an episode of ‘The Sopranos.’ ” He describes his family as “committed and respectful …”
The 21 current members of Nevada’s Bed and Breakfast Guild offer wide-ranging experiences all over the state. Those located in larger cities are handy to well-known visitor attractions. Some situated in smaller towns play upon laid-back local lifestyles. Others located in remote parts of the Silver State offer wild landscapes and adventurous activities.
There was Joel Murray, his tux as authentic ’60s Rat Pack as the drink and smoke in his hands. “Vegas has changed,” he joked. “You can’t use corporate credit cards for hookers anymore.”
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There are things that are stupid but I like them anyway. Fruit Loops — stupid, but my tummy rolls out the red carpet for them. Microsoft — idiotic, but I’m a hesitant fan. This week, I find out “Lord of the Rings: Conquest” could barely be dumber, but I enjoy playing it online. Attention me: Forgive me.
Watching today’s Super Bowl XLIII is going to be bittersweet. Sweet because, really, who isn’t up for XIII or XIV hours of football? Bitter, though, because it represents the last wheezy, raspy, Tom Waits-with-bronchitis gasp of a dying network.
With recent temperatures hinting at an early spring, the valley’s record-setting December 2008 snowstorm seems like a lifetime ago.