A federal judge decided Wednesday not to remove himself from a case involving a subpoena seeking information about people who posted online comments on a Review-Journal story about a criminal tax trial.
Picture a scenario that has Michael Jackson‘s Neverland Ranch transplanted in Las Vegas, along with the creation of a Las Vegas-set Cirque du Soleil-style show featuring his music.
Following talks with state health officials, Nevada Superintendent of Public Instruction Keith Rheault said he understood the mass inoculation of students against the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, “would be pretty wide scale, free of charge and possibly implemented at each school.” The inoculations also would be voluntary.
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, the Fremont Street Experience is hosting its own three days of music and peace Friday through Sunday.
There are so many search engines out there, it’s hard to know which to use. Or, perhaps there’s a favorite that gets used most, but might not be the right one for the user. At blindsearch.fejus.com, you enter a search term, a list of results come back. You pick the one that most suits what you’re looking for and the site will tell you which one you should use.
A new kind of carnival may be coming to town, one that trades the dancing bears and stiltwalkers for blood-spittin’ dudes in grease paint and hot-under-the-collar hard rock.
It was May 31, 1986, in Largo, Md., a day that would live in infamy if only anyone could remember it.
Aural fixation describes the situation.
The Caribbean got a whole lot closer when Super Summer Theatre debuted its new production Wednesday at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park.
Those who see ventriloquist Terry Fator at The Mirage will soon be able to compare his current Michael Jackson tribute to the old spoof captured on a “Live From Las Vegas” DVD.
Kathie Spehar, director of entertainment for Cannery Casino Resorts, sometimes finds herself dealing with an unusual, and decidedly generational, workplace issue.
In case it wasn’t enough to cover their walls with Miley Cyrus, count down the days until the next “Twilight” movie and blast the Jonas Brothers, your kids want to look like these pop culture characters, too. As you set out on your back-to-school shopping adventures, the celebrity influence will come in loud and clear.
• Who? Stephanie Parker, Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation director of development
The green extreme likes to put a smiley face on its feel-good-about-yourself-while-saving-the-planet rhetoric. But every once in a while, one of its foot soldiers slips up and reveals the disturbing philosophy that drives the far-left environmental lobby and so many of its “progressive” peers.
On his Wall Street Journal blog, Stephen Grocer noted last week: “Wall Street compensation is once again making headlines. The U.S. pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, will push to renegotiate contracts that he views as excessive or seek other ways to reduce overall outlays at institutions receiving big dollops of federal aid, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
America First Credit Union, a $4.9 billion-asset credit union based in Utah, on Wednesday announced it took over Community One Federal Credit Union, a $159 million-asset Las Vegas financial institution with 21,000 members.
The National Credit Union Administration put Community One into liquidation and America First assumed its assets, liabilities and operations.
Bally Technologies increased its quarterly earnings despite declining revenues brought on by casinos holding back on equipment purchases. The Las Vegas-based gambling equipment provider said Wednesday it had net income of $33.2 million, or 58 cents per share, in the fourth quarter ended June 30, up from net income of $31.3 million, or 54 cents a share, a year earlier.
The National Retail Federation is forecasting a 7.7 percent decline in consumer spending for school merchandise this year, with the average family spending $548.72 on students in kindergarten through 12th grade, compared with $594.24 in 2008.
WASHINGTON — Nevada had the nation’s highest foreclosure rate for the 31st-straight month as the number of U.S. households on the verge of losing their homes rose 7 percent from June to July, figures being released today show.
