The dream of racial equality that Martin Luther King Jr. described in his famous 1963 sermon from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial will live on Monday when the 28th annual parade is held in his honor in downtown Las Vegas.
In the frantic moments after a gunman opened fire two weeks ago in the Lloyd George U.S. Courthouse, a young woman found herself at the side of security officer Stan Cooper.
Events such as motorcycle jumps, rodeos, auto races and even acrobatic shows sometimes end tragically and sometimes cost Clark County taxpayers. Community leaders should make sure they know how much medical insurance coverage is carried by performers in risky events, said Dr. Dale Carrison of University Medical Center. Not taking action when coverage seems insufficient can be costly, he said.
PROVO, Utah — Jimmer Fredette is finally starting to look like the guy who scored a school-record 49 points against Arizona last month.
Dantley Walker had endured “the worst shooting game” of his life Saturday.
In his quest to move forward on the path toward a world-title shot this year, Vanes Martirosyan wanted to make sure he didn’t take any steps backward in his first fight in 2010.
Never has a seemingly decent, honorable athlete been so polarizing. And now, former Florida quarterback Tim Tebow is wading out farther into the choppy waters of public opinion.
Now appearing at the Improv inside Harrah’s … Jim Boylen.
Opinions on the NFL playoffs were more or less split down the middle all week, as the wagering lines barely moved at Las Vegas sports books. The games are generating good two-way action.
On one of the best individual nights of junior Tre’Von Willis’ career, he was left with regret, and UNLV suddenly is reeling from one that got away.
RENO — Luke Babbitt scored 19 points and Armon Johnson 17 to lead UNR to a 76-68 Western Athletic Conference victory over Idaho on Saturday.
So Lane Kiffin has left Tennessee after one season because he’s “putting the band back together” at Southern California.
A comment made in a private conversation during the 2008 presidential campaign exploded last week into a national brouhaha that seemed to threaten the already wobbly future of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
RENO — Breaking a longtime tradition, Gov. Jim Gibbons refused to take part in the opening video of an annual satirical review of the people that make news across Nevada.
The Nevada Supreme Court hopes voters approve a long-needed state intermediate appeals court, but funding the new court and other programs could be difficult amid one of the worst economic meltdowns in state history.
What’s in a word?
Apparently a whole lot, judging by the firestorm that erupted in recent days over the racially outdated language Sen. Harry Reid is reported to have used during a private conversation to describe Barack Obama’s presidential chances.
Reid’s comments about the president, revealed in a new book about the 2008 campaign, included describing Obama as “light-skinned” and saying he has no “Negro dialect” unless he chooses to have one.
RENO — Two environmental groups are joining ranchers in an unusual coalition supporting the government’s contentious removal of about 2,500 wild horses from the range north of Reno.
MICHAEL RAYMOND, A PILOT for Las Vegas-based Vision Airlines, flew rescue workers and supplies to Haiti in the wake of Tuesday’s 7.0 earthquake.
Nevada’s first man of the house is about 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighs 180 pounds and performs under the name of Markus.
Boxing trainer Roger Mayweather was bound over for trial Friday in Nevada on three felony charges alleging he beat and choked a female boxer during a confrontation at an apartment he owned.
For the second year in a row, Nevada ranks 50th in the nation in the quality of its public K-12 education, superior only to the District of Columbia, according to Quality Counts 2010, the annual survey by Education Week magazine.
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