WASHINGTON — Most Americans have never known a world where man hasn’t been to the moon.
WASHINGTON — The astronauts who first landed on the moon aren’t dwelling on their lunar steps. Instead, two of them Sunday urged mankind to take a giant leap to Mars.
The Chicago Bulls and Minnesota Timberwolves were going at it inside Cox Pavilion on Sunday, and the stands were three-quarters full.
The 51s played Sunday night home games in July and August for their first 19 seasons before scheduling all day games on Sunday the past seven.
A former linebacker at Marshall, UNLV athletic director Mike Hamrick might have a chance to return home.
Dr. Jeff Kinner walks around the dental chair where 5-year-old Aiden March lies, making sure he makes eye contact with the child who seems to want to see everything in the room at once. … Once their eyes meet, he tells the boy precisely what he is going to do with the instrument he’s holding. … “I am going to count your teeth now,” he said, his calming voice like that of Fred Rogers, the late host of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.”
Samantha Wayne could have asked her doctor any number of questions after being diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus in May 2008. But faced with an unpredictable autoimmune disease for which there is no cure, the Palo Verde High School student’s thoughts turned to basketball.
Federal prosecutors in Robert Kahre’s tax evasion and fraud trial have drilled into new territory: the question of whether Kahre and his longtime girlfriend, Danille Cline, hid taxable assets by buying shared homes in her name using falsified documents.
Add this to the human toll taken by Sen. John Ensign’s sex scandal: It’s forced the cancellation of a rockin’ party.
Elsie Kelly and Susanne Wirsen, both widows of former Nevada Test Site workers, have been trying since 2001 to collect money under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program.
Nevada voters are more forgiving than South Carolina voters when it comes to GOP politicians admitting to boinking women other than their wives.
The pilot who died when his ultralight plane crashed into a dry lake bed southeast of Las Vegas was an associate English professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, authorities said.
Few in Nevada legal circles believe O.J. Simpson has any real chance at freedom when the state’s Supreme Court justices consider letting him trade a prison cell in rural Northern Nevada for a golf course in Miami while he appeals his conviction in a hotel room heist at gunpoint.
Luke Brugnara, who leased his home to Michael Jackson in 2007, says his listing agent was mistaken in an item that ran in Norm Clarke’s Friday column. Brugnara said the home was not foreclosed and in fact was sold for a profit.
The mainstreaming of Las Vegas strippers is ratcheting up again. Many hotels bring strippers to pools, plus stripper-like dancers to casinos.
Thunderstorms sparked dozens of wildfires in the Spring Mountains this weekend, including 11 that were active as of Sunday afternoon, officials with the Spring Mountain National Recreation Area said.
The Review-Journal is remembering today’s 40th anniversary of the first moon landing with a special package of articles, photos and analysis. There’s also a multimedia interactive that shows how life on Earth has changed with the science of space exploration.
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Gov. Jim Gibbons visited soldiers in Iraq on Sunday as part of a three-governor tour to gauge troop morale in the Basra area, according to a military news release.
As long ago as April of 2008, both leading Democratic presidential candidates had defined “the rich” as households earning more than $250,000.