On the outside it would appear that Kathy Ireland has it all. As a top model, she graced the cover of Sports Illustrated many times. As a businesswoman, she heads a multibillion dollar home-furnishings and fashion empire. She also has a picture-perfect family with a successful, loving and supportive husband and three children.
: You had an article in your column that mentions the type of tomato plants that thrive in the heat of Southern Nevada. Please furnish me with this information, if possible.
Due to inaccurate information provided to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the date of this month’s Las Vegas Valley Rose Society’s meeting was incorrect. The group will meet at 7:30 p.m. today at Nevada Garden Club, 3333 W. Washington Ave., in Lorenzi Park.
Everybody knows carpet. But do we really “know” carpet?
Back in the ’60s, Bob Dylan sang “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.” At the time, I don’t think he had renewable energy on his mind, but wind energy is certainly a large part of the answer to today’s energy puzzle.
Jerry Tarkanian‘s old teeth-marked white towels aren’t for sale, and neither is the football helmet that former UNLV safety Quincy Sanders threw at UNR coach Chris Ault.
John Stockton couldn’t stop smiling. C. Vivian Stringer’s voice cracked with emotion. David Robinson spoke with the excitement of a teenager presented his first car.
Bishop Gorman tight end Xavier Grimble doesn’t expect to make his college choice until the summer, but the senior-to-be will take the recruiting process up a notch Saturday when he attends Oklahoma’s spring game.
The next Olympic Games aren’t until 2012, but the long road to London begins today for many American amateur wrestlers competing in the U.S. National Wrestling Championships at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
After stowing the last of my gear in the pickup, I pulled down on the garage door. While doing so, the corner of a large black box stored just inside caught my eye. It was my just-in-case box, and for a split second common sense told me I should raise the door and grab the box. But since we were just taking the Boy Scouts to Callville Bay, I didn’t think we’d need to be that prepared and let the door roll closed.
• LAKE MEAD — Windy conditions have made fishing difficult, yet boating anglers continue to catch fair-sized stripers in the Vegas Wash area. Baits such as cut anchovies, sardines and squid have been catching fish.
Teen movies often portray high school as a place where the jocks perform athletic feats and are cheered by the masses while the brains study for tests wearing pocket protectors and get tormented by the jocks.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The azaleas are brighter than ever. As usual, not a blade of grass is out of place. Anticipation is higher than it has been in years at the Masters, with Tiger Woods a winner again after knee surgery and Padraig Harrington going for a third consecutive major.
Armed with 11 players who played in the big leagues last year, the 51s appear poised to end a string of eight consecutive losing seasons by the Toronto Blue Jays’ Triple-A affiliate.
Emily Osborn might want to play all her softball games at Majestic Park.
In the race for two open seats on the Boulder City Council, there is some good news for Duncan McCoy and some bad news for Joe Roche.
Sandy Murphy‘s upcoming wedding is raising eyebrows of folks who have been tracking her post-prison career.
Mojave Max emerged from his burrow Tuesday afternoon at the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center, marking the unofficial start of spring weather for Southern Nevada.
WASHINGTON — With the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository on a slow path for years, and now possibly ended for good, some states are seeking relief on money their residents pay into a multibillion-dollar construction account.
CARSON CITY — A bill that would ease the terms of a voter-approved measure that banned smoking in many Nevada bars and other public places was approved on a 6-1 Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A story and chart of municipal primary election results in Tuesday’s Review-Journal incorrectly reported that four candidates advanced to the June 2 runoff in the race for two seats on the Boulder City Council. Duncan McCoy actually received enough votes to win one seat outright, leaving Cam Walker and Bill Smith to square off in the general election for the one remaining seat. Fourth-place finisher Joe Roche is out of the race.
CARSON CITY — Some rural Nevada hospitals will fail unless legislators restore the $25 million a year in indigent accident funds that Gov. Jim Gibbons wants to take from them, a longtime county lobbyist testified Wednesday.
When early voting results were posted shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday, Glenn Trowbridge was leading Stavros Anthony by 3 percentage points as they vied with four others for an open seat on the Las Vegas City Council. When the final tally was in, Trowbridge’s lead increased to 8 percentage points.
