Aaron Mathews grew up around a cattle ranch in John Day, Ore., which has a population of less than 2,000.
David Beckham shouldn’t expect a royal welcome back for his return to Major League Soccer this month. In fact, the head of the U.S. Soccer Federation believes Beckham’s return to the Los Angeles Galaxy will be met with a shrug or a boo rather than a cheer.
Former Wranglers coach Glen Gulutzan was only 31 years old and a season removed from playing professional hockey when he was named coach and general manager of Las Vegas’ ECHL franchise six years ago.
Don Logan has learned to deal with frustration the way a Los Angeles commuter does traffic. He endures it.
A tattoo on John Vaccaro’s back depicts a crucifix with the wings of an angel and reads, “A Man Of A Lifetime Victor Arbelaez 1953-2007 My Hero.” As Vaccaro and three former Bishop Gorman High School soccer teammates head for college this fall, they’ll carry with them the teachings of a coach who changed their lives.
This week readers want to know the awful truth about the Martin Luther King Boulevard widening project and what the rules are for driving in the breakdown lanes on the right side of the road.
Reversing a decade-long trend, many of the largest U.S. cities are growing more quickly than the rest of the nation, yet another sign of an economic crisis that is making it harder for people to move.
A 2-year-old boy found Sunday afternoon in a pool at a house near Flamingo Road and Jones Boulevard has died, Las Vegas police said Tuesday.
Walt Rulffes, the superintendent of the Clark County School District, is the Nevada Superintendent of the Year, according to the Nevada Association of School Administrators.
A mural that melds an imploding hotel with an orange-and-yellow racetrack hangs on the upper corner of a hulking brown wall, attracting as much curiosity as admiration.
Ask Clark County Fire Department spokesman Scott Allison about illegal fireworks and he recalls one Fourth of July about eight years ago. … A 14-year-old boy was using illegal fireworks while his parents were at a party. One of the smoldering bottle rockets veered off course, landed on the roof and continued to smolder. … Soon, it developed into a full-blown fire. … “They lost everything,” Allison said.
ST. GEORGE, Utah — The Federal Aviation Administration says search crews in southern Utah have found the wreckage of a single-engine plane that had departed from the Las Vegas area.
A Clark County School District substitute teacher arrested Friday and charged with 17 counts of possession of child pornography told police he’s had an “active interest” in child pornography for about 14 years, said a police report released Tuesday.
Red in the face and drenched in sweat, the man who would be governor trotted into his campaign headquarters Tuesday evening.
In theory at least, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will have nearly unlimited power to pass legislation now that Al Franken is set to become the junior senator from Minnesota.
After a final-day flurry, the list of applicants for Henderson’s vacant Ward 2 City Council seat now includes 16 names.
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Today it is Nevada’s bright, loud engine, but a century ago Clark County was born in a nowhere corner of a near-empty state.
For today’s Nevada section front page, we went back in time. Page designer Carly Forsht used fonts approximating those used in the Review-Journal’s early 20th century self, the Las Vegas Age (see an image of the July 3, 1909, Page One below). She also copied the design styles of the time — long columns of text, multiple headlines with each story and no photos. For John L. Smith’s column, R-J artist David Stroud produced a pencil drawing of what Smith might have looked like had he lived at the turn of the century.
The chief nursing officer at MountainView Hospital said Tuesday that the 33-year-old man who died last weekend as a result of the H1N1 virus was treated as though he had the disease from the day he was admitted, despite the fact that he was not diagnosed until well into his 13-day hospitalization.
Call it the harrumph heard ’round the world — or at least throughout the valley.
CARSON CITY — Teenagers and older people heading to the Department of Motor Vehicles to take driving tests better carry a little extra cash.
After 27 consecutive years in Las Vegas, magician Lance Burton said he considered a number of possibilities, including retirement, before deciding to stay at the Monte Carlo for another six years.
Under rules adopted Tuesday by the state Supreme Court, homeowners facing foreclosure will have a chance to modify loan agreements with their mortgage companies.