My Eclipse Award ballot finally arrived this week. I did what I said I would do after the Breeders’ Cup: I split my Horse of the Year vote between Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta. Because the National Turf Writers Association rejected this common-sense approach, my HOY vote will be disqualified.
I’m not sure who thought this one up. Uncle Roger. Papa Floyd. Little Floyd. The manager. The promoter. The publicist. The bodyguard. The chauffeur. One of the other countless enablers whose purpose we’ve never been able to figure out.
HONOLULU — It’s normal to circle this date on the calendar. It’s Christmas, after all. But that’s not why UNLV sophomore Chace Stanback eyeballed it several months ago.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court ruled 5-2 Thursday that eight pharmacies in Las Vegas cannot be sued for negligence in the death of a man killed by a motorist under the influence of prescription drugs purchased at their businesses.
WASHINGTON — Although some senators were granted special favors in the health care bill approved Thursday by the Senate, no earmarks for Nevada are in the 2,074-page measure, according to a spokesman for Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.
Blankets. Soap. Toilet paper. Clean clothes. … It’s the little stuff people take for granted, but for the Las Vegas families who lost everything in a massive fire Wednesday, that’s what they’re thankful for.
He hands out candy and toys to the children of Najil and other villages tucked among the rugged mountains of northeastern Afghanistan.
A Thursday fire in Henderson destroyed a $400,000 home, officials said.
Just when it appeared drama over the long, bitter health reform debate had subsided, Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada voted against his own bill.
CARSON CITY — In a community property state such as Nevada with its no-fault divorce law, a Southern Nevada divorce lawyer says there is no reason for Gov. Jim Gibbons and his wife, Dawn, to be preparing to duke it out in a divorce trial next week.
CARSON CITY — Clark County District Judge Jackie Glass should not have denied the press copies of questionnaires filled out by jurors last year in the O.J. Simpson robbery trial, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Offering to take the kid to “A Christmas Carol” sounded like one of those duties dads are goaded into performing during the holiday break.
Merry Christmas and ho, ho, ho. On the concert and celebrity scene, it’s slow, slow, slow. So it’s a good weekend to check out the regular stuff in town.
When the phone rang very early Thursday, Gloria Navarro feared it could be bad news.
The government building exuded ick, all gray and glassy, with a small crowd of unfortunate souls hovering at the locked front door.
Traditionally the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day is Las Vegas’ busiest. Good news for the casinos (and many of them need good news) but bad news for promotion lovers. However, we did find a few goodies.
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They live in Las Vegas. They do illusions with lions and tigers. And you have to ask which one is the blond and which is the dark-haired one.
It’s the end of the road, and it leads to … Primm, apparently. R&B vocal group Boyz II Men will be bustin’ out the hits at the state line this holiday weekend, coming with those chocolate-rich harmonies that make all the ladies sigh. Go ahead, take the missus. It might make up for buying her that vacuum cleaner for Christmas. See Boyz II Men at 8 p.m. Sunday at Star of the Desert Arena at Buffalo Bill’s, Interstate 15 South at Primm. Tickets are $32.95 and $43.95; call 382-4388.
Clint Holmes will work on Christmas Day. But that’s fine because it’s still “a bit of a family holiday thing” with his wife, Kelly Clinton Holmes, and sister, Gayle Steele, in on the act.
