As the most veteran staffer in UNLV’s athletic department, assistant equipment manager Larry Chin has spent 35 years with sweat-soaked uniforms. It’s a career Chin never planned on, but fell into as a junior at Western High School when he realized that at 5 feet 6 inches and 155 pounds, he was too small to continue to play football. He became team manager and eventually received a scholarship at UNLV to serve as a student manager.
This week readers want to know whether there is any news regarding extending Silverado Ranch Boulevard to Decatur Boulevard in the southern Las Vegas Valley; what are the DMV rules if you split time as a resident in Nevada and another state; and are there any upcoming closures on the Summerlin Parkway.
The Nevada Board of Medical Examiners suspended the license of cosmetic doctor Sean Phong-Quoc Su on Tuesday, fearing that more patients might be harmed if he were allowed to perform procedures while the board investigates his level of competency. The investigation stems from two complaints from patients treated by Su at his Skin Body Institute.
CARSON CITY — Larry Cooley, police chief of the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, was tickled Tuesday to learn his small agency will be getting one extra officer, thanks to a federal stimulus grant awarded by the Department of Justice.
An air quality advisory is in effect through today for Clark County.
Two Clark County homeowners and one in Carson City are the first to seek help under the state foreclosure mediation program, the Nevada Supreme Court said.
The central figure of an investigation into the hepatitis C outbreak might have been impaired by a stroke a year ago, but he is competent enough to face medical malpractice charges, according to the state Board of Medical Examiners.
RENO — Health advocates say there are 28,500 Nevadans with Alzheimer’s disease, creating a need for licensed facilities that care for them.
Federal drug enforcement agents and Los Angeles police descended on the Las Vegas home and office of Michael Jackson’s doctor Tuesday in their investigation of the pop star’s death.
Station Casinos on Tuesday filed for Chapter 11 protection after reaching an impasse in months-long negotiations with creditors on a plan to restructure the gaming company’s $5.7 billion debt load.
Five people were hurt Monday afternoon when a sport utility vehicle plowed into the Clark County satellite office in a Henderson strip mall.
The Southern Nevada Regional Planning Coalition had to open five additional cooling centers for the homeless Tuesday because the mercury hit 112 degrees.
Las Vegas police are seeking a kidnapping and sexual assault suspect who posed as a detective with a fake badge to gain the trust of the victim.
So, who in the world is Neal Smatresk and just exactly how do you say his name?
The ironic twist wasn’t lost on residents and reporters at Red Rock Country Club on Tuesday.
Voters picked the winner in the state Senate race between Mike Schneider and Danny Tarkanian back in 2004. Now, five years later, the ensuing legal fight spawned from the nasty campaign will be decided by a jury.
Nine months and $3 million later, repairs are now complete on a pair of pipelines that threatened to fail and take Lake Las Vegas with them.
CARSON CITY — A legislative subcommittee that will monitor how stimulus money the state gets is spent has set a date for its first meeting.
CARSON CITY — Nevada moved a step closer Tuesday to getting a “stimulus czar” to keep tabs on money coming from federal grants.
Upon first glance, the answer seems simple. Privé has to go, right?
George Orwell is alive and writing new fiction about Congress legislating expanded government control of health care. Or at least it seems that way.
The House of Representatives voted 265-166 last week for a Democratic “pay as you go” bill that would require automatic, across-the-board spending cuts should a year-end review show that new appropriations do not balance with revenues.
Although powerful Democratic Sens. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Kent Conrad of North Dakota — whose committees oversee the mortgage banking industry — claimed they had no idea they were getting special mortgage deals from Countrywide Financial Corp., an official who handled their loans has told Congress in closed-door testimony the pair were indeed informed at the time they were getting special deals.
Marinelli’s in M Resort in Henderson serves authentic Italian dishes based on the recipes of the CEO’s grandmother.
So many requests, so little space. So this week we have a column dedicated to them.
