If a crusty 70-year-old Boulder City man had marched outside the federal courthouse with a sign calling bankruptcy court “a brothel” and U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Linda Riegle “a madam” who “pays the working girls and provides the condoms,” his First Amendment rights would have been protected.
Attorney Mary Perry specializes in resolving family disputes in a civil manner, but when the topic turns to the nation’s security, she clearly believes situations exist when harsh treatment, even torture, are warranted.
CARSON CITY — The Assembly voted Wednesday for a bill aimed at blocking unwarranted use of high-priced consultants by state government agencies.
A story in Wednesday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal gave an incorrect date for the public hearing on the Las Vegas Valley Water District’s tentative budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The hearing will be held in the commission chambers at the Clark County government center at 9:45 a.m. May 18.
CARSON CITY — The state Senate voted unanimously Wednesday for a plan that would allow for specialized courts for military veterans charged with nonviolent crimes while struggling to readjust to civilian life.
A prominent Nebraska philanthropist has been indicted on felony theft and bad check charges for allegedly failing to repay more than $14 million in gambling debts to Las Vegas casinos.
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. — The last time swine flu made headlines, the virus itself didn’t spread far but the fallout from the health emergency did.
MGM Mirage and Dubai World ended a 5-week-old public feud Wednesday by agreeing to a comprehensive plan to fully fund and complete the $8.5 billion CityCenter development.
CARSON CITY — Analysts calculating a revenue hole in Nevada’s budget have increased the figure by at least $300 million, bringing a total estimated shortfall to $3 billion or more if lawmakers wanted to maintain current government service levels over the next two fiscal years.
CARSON CITY– The Assembly voted 33-9 Wednesday for a bill to require cigarette manufacturers to sell only “fire safe” cigarettes in Nevada starting in 2010.
RENO — Everett S. Landers, former executive editor of the Reno Gazette-Journal, has died. He was 76.
CARSON CITY — Although heartened by the Obama administration’s opposition to a high-level nuclear waste facility at Yucca Mountain, a state panel fighting the project was told Wednesday it can’t let up on its efforts.
WASHINGTON — What was supposed to be a four-day California vacation almost three years ago turned into a 30-day nightmare for a Henderson family when 9-year-old Rylee Gustafson was hospitalized with deadly food poisoning after eating contaminated spinach.
WASHINGTON — Republican senators on Wednesday pushed back against the Obama administration’s moves to set aside the nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain.
Heaven Can Wait Sanctuary’s Gimme Shelter Concert featuring the Rolling Stones tribute band Jumping Jack Flash will be at 8 p.m. Saturday at Lake Las Vegas Resort.
The war is on. A new discount ticket outlet has opened a few storefronts away from the signature outlet of the company that dominates the market.
They’re one of the best hard-hitting Vegas bands that you probably haven’t heard of just yet. Not only does Malus Rex boast one of the finest metal vocalists in town, an old school, upper register dynamo, but they also bash out some of the most frenetic thrash around. It’s a combustible pairing of melody and malevolence that makes this bunch a band to watch. Read on as they break it down for us: What does Malus Rex sound like?
Say you’re a guy with $50 burning a hole in your pocket and you’re faced with the decision of, if not a lifetime, at least a weekend: topless pool party or topless club?
Everybody has an ego, and everybody likes to say he or she was doing something before it was cool. In a world where many scoff that Oprah’s presence on Twitter made it decidedly uncool, you can now check to see if you were Twittering before your friends were. Visit herebeforeyou.com and enter your username and someone for comparison to see who was on the site first. Makes for good bragging rights, if nothing else.
Quasi-quoting the Coasters: “Yakety-Yak — will you ever stop talking back (and forth)”?
One fine night they leave the pool hall, headin’ for the dance at the armory; libertine men and scarlet women and ragtime, shameless music that’ll grab your son and your daughter, with the arms of a jungle animal instinct — MASS-TERIA! Friends the idle brain is the devil’s playground …
These days, most people don’t drive chrome-encrusted cars with sharp, jutting tail fins.
Looking for somewhere to celebrate Cinco de Mayo? Chances are, you’re not from Mexico.
• Shop for a Cause: Feeding America, the nation’s largest hunger-relief organization, is partnering with Neiman Marcus for The Good Event today through Saturday. The purchase of a $40 non-transferable donation card in the men’s and women’s contemporary sportswear departments, as well as Sport Shop and Dress Collections, gives shoppers a 30 percent discount on full-priced merchandise. One hundred percent of the customer’s $40 donation supports the Feeding America network.
By now the honor of your presence has been requested to at least one wedding this season. If you’re unsure about what to wear, don’t bother getting on the phone with other guests or pulling the bride away from a dispute over china patterns. Instead, take a gander at our four fool-proof ensembles for a variety of different nuptials. Each look perfectly complements the ceremony so that all you have to put real thought into is the wedding registry.
