On Saturday morning, after all the tearful goodbyes to family were over, buses left the Clark County Armory, taking more than 600 soldiers from Nevada’s 1st Squadron, 221st Cavalry on the first leg of their year-long journey to the war front in Afghanistan.
Video of local soldier leaving
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers face another big deadline in the 12th week of their 2009 session, which starts Monday, with most Assembly bills having to cross over to the state Senate and vice versa, or else.
Las Vegas police have joined the Twitter Age, using the 140-character “micro-blogging” service Twitter.com as a tool to spread information to the public.
OVERHEARD ON THE SCANNER: “Report of someone outside the store begging for money. Negative clothes.”
A large group of people wearing matching outfits and chanting in unison made a spectacle of themselves Saturday.
Some bands merely hail from a city; others distill its properties like strands of DNA.
CARSON CITY — A boy who survived his parents’ 2003 murder-suicide in Northern Nevada has been hospitalized, authorities said, and his guardians have been arrested on suspicion of failing to properly care for him.
Imagine being able to control how fast your car goes without being behind the steering wheel or holding a gun to the head of the person driving.
Thirteen-year-old Ayren Perry’s dance with death began on a Norman Rockwell painting kind of day, one where sunlight shining on smiling faces promises the innocent pleasures of youth.
North Las Vegas police are looking for a suspect in an early morning home invasion that left one person wounded.
RENO — Dozens of Western Shoshone tribal members and activists are holding an annual ceremonial event on the flank of a Northern Nevada mountain that is at the heart of their legal battle against the world’s biggest gold mining company.
Two men were shot to death late Friday night on a quiet suburban street in North Las Vegas.
It’s looking like 2003 all over again — and I’m not referring to the record tax increases on the way.
It’s good for America that thousands of well-meaning citizens ventured out on tax day and demonstrated against the massive government debt we’re incurring by ever-increasing deficit spending.
Kevin writes in from Buffalo, N.Y., in response to my March 15 column, “Prohibitionists force pain patients to live in agony”:
Check out the new, April 7 assessment from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, titled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” obtained by Reuters and other news media last week.
On Thursday, The Associated Press reported: “Nevada faces the largest budget deficit in the country for the upcoming fiscal year, according to a recent survey of states by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal Washington, D.C., think tank.
paranoia (pair-ah-NOY-ah): an unfounded or exaggerated distrust of others, reaching delusional proportions. Paranoids constantly suspect others are out to get them.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, Americans need to be on the lookout for twisted, hate-filled veterans recruited from the ranks of people passionate about a single issue like, say, illegal immigration or abortion.
“I have a new job. … We are going to have to move.”
