Were it not for a coyote feeding on the body, two police officers might not have noticed the charred remains of 25-year-old Jeffrey Anderson Jr. in a remote area of Henderson last year.
“Winky” Wright and Paul “The Punisher” Williams box Saturday at Mandalay Bay, so I asked both fighters a simple question: How much does it hurt to get punched in the face and gut?
CARSON CITY — A key Senate panel voted Thursday to keep alive a solar-energy tax break measure after being told the abatements will help bring solar projects to Nevada rather than to other solar-rich states such as California and Arizona.
Gaming Control Board Chairman Ed Olsen was not Nevada’s first board chairman as Jane Ann Morrison wrote in a blog item republished on Wednesday’s editorial page.
CARSON CITY — After hours of debate on a bill to raise Nevada’s taxes on diesel fuel by 12 cents per gallon, the state Senate Taxation Committee voted Thursday to kill the plan.
The great Las Vegas topless/taxi war is about to escalate on multiple fronts.
WASHINGTON — If there is likely to be no nuclear waste repository in Nevada, there is no need to think about building a nuclear waste railroad, attorneys for the state are saying to a federal board considering an Energy Department rail plan.
Talks between MGM Mirage and Los Angeles investment company Colony Capital about a possible investment in the struggling gaming company have collapsed, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday night.
A 21-year-old man died Thursday after his motorcycle collided with a sport utility vehicle, Las Vegas police said.
A proposal to allow a $1 billion privately funded toll lane project in Southern Nevada is expected to die today in a state legislative committee.
After two years and three municipal elections, it appears the vote center concept is here to stay in Henderson.
Emergenetics is not just for School Board members. More than a thousand employees in the Clark County School District have been analyzed and profiled at the cost of $75,417.
CARSON CITY — Patrons who visit Nevada’s 25 legal brothels won’t be handing over an extra $5 to cover the costs of a state tax on sex.
The Senate Taxation Committee on a 4-3 vote Thursday killed Senate Bill 369, which would have imposed the first state tax on services performed by prostitutes.
The Clark County School District anticipates eliminating 684 full-time positions next year, according to a tentative budget for the 2009-10 fiscal year.
Reporters don’t call Denton Cinquegrana anymore.
They’ll be one of the biggest bands to play during the 12th annual Viva Las Vegas rockabilly weekend, even though they technically aren’t playing the event at all.
The Eastside Cannery‘s “$450,000 Swipe ‘n’ Win” promotion offers several ways to win cash including three weekly drawings on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays as well as a swipe giveaway. There will be 11 electronic and five manual winners at the winners-must-be-present 6 p.m. drawings. Players receive one entry for every 250 points ($84 coin-in slots, $125 coin-in video poker) earned on their cards, plus entries can be earned at the tables. On Sundays through Wednesdays, C.A.N. Club members can swipe their cards to win free drawing entries or up to $20,000 cash.
Such events occur only seven times in a blue moon.
Take the “Literal” literally.
It’s tempting to describe “Observe and Report” as the feel-bad comedy of the year. There’s one problem: It’s not funny.
My morning ritual was shaken. It consists of reading the Review-Journal — word for word, of course — and then checking the All That Chat theater bulletin board (at talkinbroadway.com). When I headed to the Vegas section recently, I was met with a posting from the owner, local John Gillespie: “All That Chat — Las Vegas worth keeping? … If we took it down, would you miss it?”
As part of its Penny Picker Upper campaign, CiCi’s Pizza is dropping 1 million specially marked pennies in public areas around their restaurants across the country, which include four in the Las Vegas Valley. The marked pennies offer free meals and other deals at CiCi’s. And every specially marked penny that’s returned to CiCi’s will be donated to Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America. …
Switch, in a word: Wow. I’m not kidding. All aspects of this truly refreshing spot at Encore were absolutely stellar.
The night before Valentine’s Day of 2004, Elton John did something once unthinkable for a rock star of the ’70s. He became a Las Vegas headliner.
Antonio Restivo doesn’t sing, at least not onstage. And that’s too bad, because man, that dude looks like the god of heavy metal incarnate.
A nightclub’s distinguishing feature — the thing that makes one club different from another — usually is something like a state-of-the-art sound system or a computerized lighting setup or a new twist in customer service.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Rockers Nickelback play the MGM Grand Garden arena on Sept. 6, with Hinder, Papa Roach and Saving Abel.