A caption on Page 1C of Friday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal misidentified Centennial High School’s Johnna Brown, the newspaper’s female High School Athlete of the Year. Brown is on the far left in the photo; teammate Sierra Golia-Huffman is on the right.
CARSON CITY — Christopher Hansen, who chaired the Independent American Party of Nevada during its period of greatest growth, has resigned from his party and dropped out of politics.
Michael Jackson‘s family announced Friday that a memorial area has been set up outside the late entertainer’s last Las Vegas residence.
RENO — The projects before the Nevada Wildlife Commission seemed simple enough: spending about $160,000 to kill ravens and coyotes to protect sage grouse and mule deer from the predators.
Ah, summer, a time for college kids to cash in their used books, take a trip to Cali, visit the folks back home, veg out on the sofa, let their minds turn to mush, forget their professors’ names and pretend August will not soon arrive.
You think you know someone. Then you read his autobiography and realize how much you didn’t know. That’s how it is with William “Bob” Bailey.
The officer who fatally shot a fleeing sexual assault suspect Wednesday has been identified by Las Vegas police as Jeremy Hendricks, an 11-year veteran of the force.
“AMERICAN PIE FOURTH OF JULY” featuring live music and fireworks displays on the Viva Vision canopy today through Sunday at Fremont Street Experience, downtown between Main Street and Las Vegas Boulevard. Live music begins at 6 p.m. today and 8 p.m. Sunday. The Grass Roots perform today. California Dreamin’ performs today, and Class of ’69 performs today and Sunday. The Viva Vision canopy schedule will feature the shows “Sign of Life,” “Don McLean’s American Pie,” “KISS Over Vegas,” “George Thorogood’s Bad to the Bone,” and “Tribute to Queen” beginning at 8:30 p.m. today through Sunday. Each show will be followed by the Viva Vision Virtual Fireworks Show (800-249-3559).
Las Vegas spine surgeon Mark Kabins is seeking to have a federal case against him dismissed, arguing that he never defrauded patients or deprived them of honest services and that the government filed charges after the statute of limitations had expired.
Today we celebrate that stirring day in history, July 4, 1812, when the first president of the United States, Benjamin Franklin, emerged from the old State House in Boston, held up the new Constitution freshly penned by Thomas Jefferson of New York, and announced to the cheers of the gathered throng that, “These United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent of the crown of Spain!” Who would not wish to have been there, joining in the joyous tumult, as the commander of the Continental Army, Ulysses S. Grant, promptly ordered his men to board the waiting steamships and set sail for San Juan Hill?
Russell Leff said he can handle making Southern Nevada a global source for rechargeable, biodegradable batteries.
Hector Contreras figures he has as good a chance as anyone to win the poker world’s most prestigious event.
Runners from the Palo Verde High School cross country team carry a giant American flag during Summerlin’s Patriotic Parade this morning. The parade included traditional floats, giant helium balloons, Native American dancers, Darth Vader and Stormtroopers from “Star Wars” and a salute to Nellis Air Force Base.
Southern Nevada Celebrates the Fourth
Fourth of July events around the Las Vegas Valley:
