DEAR DESIGNER: My kitchen is small and I can’t afford to put in a new one right now. Are there any standard guidelines for arranging my kitchen cabinets so I can make the most of them? — Sylvia
Home has meant many things to many people over time. From natural caves to stone cottages, cliff dwellings to modern tracts, homes have provided shelter and comfort throughout the
Summer is quickly coming to an end, and the start of a new school year often means a fresh start in a new home.
Schoolteachers — or, as they were called in the early 19th century, schoolmasters — stood in front of the class at a special schoolmaster’s desk. It was not used with a chair. The slanted desktop had a book ledge to hold a book so it could be easily read.
DEAR DEBBIE: With three busy kids and a sports-active husband, our laundry basket is always full. I’d like to organize the wash so that it’s not a constant hassle, and even thought of moving the washer and dryer upstairs. Have you any ideas? — Frannie
Q: I don’t know what is on the beavertail cactus. It just appeared this summer. It’s about seven years old and I’ve never seen this white stuff before. The cactus doesn’t have a water source — no bubblers, no overspray — it’s completely on it’s own. I sent you a picture. What should I do?
Kids can learn a lot from the mistakes of star athletes. Plaxico Burress provides a perfect example. The former New York Giants receiver had it all, but now he’s headed to prison.
• LAKE MEAD — Anglers say fishing has been fair, though winds have kept some away from the water.
From tying Alex Rodriguez’s home run record in high school to hitting .333 at the University of Tennessee to driving in 105 runs in his first full professional season, 51s catcher J.P. Arencibia had excelled at every level of baseball.
Dove season opens Tuesday morning, but given what I haven’t seen, it could be a slow opener. And what I haven’t seen are doves.
Six weeks. Six months. Doesn’t matter. When entering into contract negotiations for securing your lot in life as a college football bowl game, specific facts always determine your fate.
UNLV freshman wide receiver Mark Barefield didn’t wait until this week to get his first taste of trying to balance college academics and football.
CARSON CITY — Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto advised Nevadans on Wednesday that they do not have to pay a lot of money to private companies to acquire deeds to their properties.
A Las Vegas anesthesiologist linked by Dr. Conrad Murray to the drug use of Michael Jackson did administer a sleeping drug to the pop star four times, but not under the conditions that Murray told investigators.
Residents of the Scotch 80s fear their historic neighborhood will change if University Medical Center will be allowed to build a 24-hour, 268-space parking lot on the neighborhood’s edge.
The horrible deed that landed Dan Bogden on the list of nine U.S. attorneys fired in 2006 by the Bush administration: Bogden told Justice officials if they wanted him to prosecute immigration and pornography cases, he needed more resources.
The Nevada Supreme Court has suspended a Henderson attorney pending the resolution of disciplinary proceedings against him.
Nevada will get $25 million next school year from a federal grant program announced Wednesday by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., who appeared together at Harmon Elementary School.
A federal bankruptcy judge will decide whether the first trial in last year’s hepatitis outbreak goes ahead as scheduled.
• A headline on a story in Wednesday’s Review-Journal was incorrect. The mother of a 2-year-old Florida girl asphyxiated by a Burmese python and the woman’s boyfriend were charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter in connection with the death, not convicted.
A fugitive who barricaded himself in an apartment Wednesday was arrested after a five-hour standoff with Las Vegas police.
Las Vegas Paving was victorious Wednesday in the bidding for road projects on and around Interstate 15 on the south end of town, but the losing applicants on the approximately $250 million job did not walk away empty-handed.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada labor union that accuses a state agency of trying to sidestep a prevailing wage requirement is seeking a temporary restraining order to block the spending of $10 million in federal stimulus money on a home weatherization program for low-income families.