Sandra Cullen didn’t think she was a candidate for diabetes or high cholesterol. But that changed in 2002 when the 39-year-old mother of twins sought a physicians help because she wasn’t feeling quite right.
Editor’s Note: This is the latest installment of a weekly feature in which the Las Vegas Review-Journal asks 20 questions of a member of the UNLV football team.
RENO — Plans are being made to thin trees and other potential fuel over a large area of forest and brush in southwestern Reno to reduce the threat of a catastrophic wildfire.
Comprehensive immigration reform has long been a major issue for Hispanic rights advocates.
Editor’s note: This is the second in a collection of periodic essays from Afghanistan by Lt. Col. Scott Cunningham, commander of the 1st Squadron, 221st Cavalry, the largest overseas deployment of Nevada National Guard troops.
Fourteen months after he had the first heart surgery of its kind in Las Vegas, 53-year-old Dennis Luetkemeyer backpacked for four days through the Maroon Bells wilderness area in Colorado. He traversed a 28-mile loop through four mountain passes, all above 12,000 feet.
Because Manch Elementary School serves neighborhoods that often are troubled by crime, building security is paramount.
The Institute of Medicine — a division of the tax-funded National Academies of Science — has issued a 92-page report titled “Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity.”
Struggling with an economy that has gouged gambling profits and cut casino companies’ ability to borrow, MGM Mirage hopes to keep expanding its international hotel and casino empire and fattening its profit — but have other companies foot the bill.
At the end of fiscal year 2000, there were 540 penny slot machines in Nevada casinos. … As of last week, M Resort had nearly double that number of penny games on its casino floor. … And that’s just one property. … Penny slot machines are no longer an oddity. The games have become the norm for the casino industry and a large chunk of the slot floor’s revenue stream.
President Barack Obama showed Tuesday in his national back-to-school speech that he knows how to grab the attention of students.
He mentioned the XBox as a distraction from homework.
The message was not lost on the sixth-graders in Michael Maxwell’s social studies class at Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy near Martin Luther King and Lake Mead boulevards.
The anti-wrinkle drug botox has been illegally administered by medical assistants in the offices of plastic surgeons throughout the state, the executive director of the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners said Tuesday.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons blamed Nevada’s unemployment growth in July on legislators who backed $780 million in tax increases over his vetoes.
CARSON CITY — The state agreed today to pay $125,000 to an Israel-born man who contended he was discriminated against by fellow employees at the Nevada Youth Training Center in Elko.
WASHINGTON — A Henderson man who worked for a State Department contractor apparently has been electrocuted while showering in Baghdad even as U.S. authorities in Iraq try to remedy bathhouse wiring problems that have led to the deaths of American troops there.
A suicidal man was arrested after trying to run down a Henderson police officer Tuesday morning.