: I am selling my house and need to repair a small hole in my hallway carpet. The hole is about 2 inches square. Can it be repaired or do I need to recarpet the entire hallway?
DEAR HELOISE: This is a hint for those couples whose sleeping needs and styles are so incompatible that they either sleep poorly every night in the same bed or have to resort to separate beds or even separate bedrooms. I sleep like a rock and prefer the covers tightly tucked around me. My husband, due to insomnia and restless leg syndrome, tosses, turns, kicks, steals the covers in his sleep and is generally impossible to sleep in the same bed with.
“The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.” Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), English biologist
As you clean up the remnants of the Memorial Day weekend and prepare for a full schedule of summer activities, you might be considering making a few improvements to your yard. A covered patio, perhaps. Maybe a swimming pool. An outdoor kitchen would be nice.
It’s easy to look just at Lorena Villamar’s hitting and pitching statistics and see some of her contributions to the success of Valley’s softball team.
Tom Humm grew up in Las Vegas listening with his father to legendary announcer Vin Scully call Los Angeles Dodgers games on the radio.
With the Cleveland Cavaliers on the brink of elimination from the NBA playoffs, it’s about time for LeBron James to ponder his summer plans. Maybe he’ll want to give NFL training camp a try.
Longtime Nevada boxing judge Paul Smith is about to go before a judge himself.
The boys volleyball season probably will be remembered for Palo Verde’s run from third place in the Northwest League to the Class 4A state championship.
Tony George is still in charge of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, despite a report he had been voted out.
Vince Lombardi: “If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, why do they keep score?”
• LAKE MEAD — Anglers are finding success with live bait in the Vegas Wash arm because of an influx of shad. Action along the beach area has been slow.
It’s the last week of May, and Nevada hunters soon will grow anxious awaiting the results of the big game tag draw. Those results should be available before long, but knowing whether you received a tag won’t do you any good if you don’t have ammo for your favorite hunting rifle.
As retired NFL players aggressively pushed their cases for better benefits from the union, their efforts came from disparate voices rather than a unified front.
Spend 40 years in professional baseball and you’ll see everything sooner or later.
Gov. Jim Gibbons plans to veto the Legislature’s tax bill today at 5 p.m., putting the ball back in the lawmakers’ court as they try to pass the $781 million package over his objections.
CARSON CITY — Clark County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly resigned from a $48,000-a-year part-time job as the state “green initiatives” outreach coordinator for Southern Nevada, legislators were told Wednesday.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers, running out of time in the 2009 session which ends Monday, advanced numerous bills on Wednesday, including one to reduce on-the-job deaths and injuries by improving workplace safety training for new employees.
The woman accused of kidnapping a boy from Mackey Elementary School to make a point about school safety testified Wednesday that she was only trying to help him.
CARSON CITY — The “green jobs” bill by Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford won Assembly Ways and Means Committee approval Wednesday after an amendment was added to guarantee workers trained for future renewable energy jobs learn how to perform energy audits.
The state Senate’s approval of a bill to take roughly $125 million from Clark County has left some local leaders frustrated, perplexed and worried.
President Barack Obama squinted up at one of the thousands of solar panels at a Nellis Air Force Base installation he toured Wednesday morning, listening as Sen. Harry Reid and base commander Col. Howard Belote told him about the photovoltaic array that supplies a quarter of the base’s electricity.
Tussah Heera can clearly spell out how she deals with pre-competition butterflies.
When University Medical Center’s outpatient cancer treatment program was shuttered in November because of severe budget cuts, uninsured and under-insured cancer patients were afraid their only realistic chance at life had disappeared.
Both the governor of Nevada and the mayor of Las Vegas declared themselves disappointed Wednesday after President Barack Obama only sorta kinda said it’s good to come to Las Vegas.
Video: Gov. Gibbons speaks with Review-Journal editorial board
The co-defendant in the O.J. Simpson robbery case says he deserves a new trial because he was prejudiced by sharing a trial with the infamous fallen football star.