Three Las Vegas Review-Journal sports department members and three professional handicappers have been given $1,000 fantasy bankrolls to bet during the NCAA Tournament — two picks per day of either sides, totals or one of each. Below are their bets for today, with a brief explanation of their picks:
Jonathan Walker is one of the many who are unemployed in the Las Vegas Valley. On Thursday, he went to a job fair sponsored by lasvegasjobs.com at the Texas Station in North Las Vegas. Joining him were his wife Shelly and 7-month-old daughter, Emily. About 663,000 workers across the U.S. lost their jobs in March.
Dozens of young boys might have fallen victim to a longtime Boulder City teacher and soccer coach who has been charged with 72 child pornography-related counts, Boulder City Police Chief Thomas Finn said Friday.
Workers in Clark County’s largest union approved reducing annual pay raises enough to save taxpayers an estimated $9.6 million a year through mid-2011.
The 58-year-old driver of a 1998 Saturn was killed when his car was struck by another vehicle that ran a red light Friday afternoon, according to Las Vegas police.
Dozens of poor families still living in the crumbling Casa Rosa public housing complex in North Las Vegas soon get the means to begin moving out in the next several weeks, an official said Friday.
Is it possible Gov. Jim Gibbons believes there is no one in Northern Nevada good enough to serve on the Nevada Gaming Commission? Not one businessman, former legislator, rancher or even a retired journalist?
A Las Vegas police detective shot a man during an altercaton late Friday night.
Signature Productions’ “Thoroughly Modern Millie” should quell the rumors, for now anyway, that local theater has a small talent pool. The 1920s spoof is stuffed with more than two dozen singers, dancers and actors who keep surprising you with their ability to stop a show. Numbers that start out slow and small-scaled often burst into heart-pumping spectacle.
An attorney for embattled Henderson City Manager Mary Kay Peck said his client has been placed on paid administrative leave but no one has told her she is being fired or tried to negotiate her departure from the city.
At a time when government workers have agreed to reduce pay raises to prevent layoffs, union leaders for police officers, firefighters, teachers and other public employees on Friday blasted a long-term measure that would reduce government pensions and save millions in tax dollars a year.
CARSON CITY — Bar and restaurant representatives told legislators Friday their customer base and profits have declined dramatically and they’ve been forced to lay off workers because of a smoking ban approved by voters in 2006.
Las Vegas nightlife king Andrew Sasson, with four restaurant-club ventures on his plate at City Center, has put a $21 million price tag on a half-finished home he is selling in Hawaii.
The Clark County School Board is a clash of red and blue, but the colors are not electoral map code for Republican and Democrat.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Dina Titus on Friday became the first Nevada lawmaker to disclose ahead of time what local projects she will try to earmark into federal spending bills this year.
Kathleen Boutin wants you to know that she has the vision and the drive necessary to lead Henderson as a member of the City Council.
Plans for a heliport that aviation experts say would be the world’s largest are moving closer to liftoff despite the sinking economy.
One campaign mailer features a picture of an empty wallet. Another shows a “Bank Repo” sign in front of a foreclosed home.
Tennis champion Andre Agassi founded and helped finance the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, a public charter school that has served “at-risk” students since 2001, and is set to graduate its first senior class in June.
Another deal to sell a prime gaming-entitled parcel in the resort corridor collapsed this week and such sales are likely to continue being tough to close for some time, a top local real estate firm said Friday.
What do Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Nevada have in common?
Financially strapped casino operators may be asking too steep a price for Strip resorts that are potentially on the market, according to a high- ranking executive with Penn National Gaming, the company most often linked to possible purchases.
Dan Coletti builds only a half-dozen or so custom homes a year, but each one stimulates the Las Vegas economy with hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in construction materials, he said.
