Shawn Marion has had a good NBA career. Not as good as Michael Jordan, but good enough.
The United States wasn’t the only country that fed off the crowd Sunday at the USA Sevens rugby tournament at Sam Boyd Stadium.
I am not certain where most of the defensive coaches for UNLV football the past few years landed, but here’s a guess: On staff with the Guyana rugby team.
Lynda Gallagher was there as a sobbing woman cradled her dead husband and told him how much she loved him, how much she would miss him. She was there when the parents of a teen who died of a drug overdose first tried to deal with their shattered dreams, the promise of what might have been. She also was there recently when a grieving Nevada State College student tried to make sense of the fact that her young roommate died in her sleep. “No one should be alone when tragedy strikes,” said Gallagher, 50, a volunteer with the Trauma Intervention Program of Southern Nevada, better known as TIP. “I guess you might call what we do emotional first aid. Often, you just listen. Other times you help them talk out their feelings. We’re really comforting people, not counseling them.”
The officer who exchanged gunfire with a suspect outside a North Las Vegas apartment complex Saturday night was shot in his badge and suffered only minor injuries, police said Sunday.
Supporters of the fledgling Nevada State College are running scared, trying to deflect rumors the college might be closed to help balance the higher education budget. The state’s only four-year college is feeling like an unwanted stepchild hoping for a fairy godmother.
Political opponents of U.S. Senate candidate Sue Lowden are using her connection to a failed bank to attack her candidacy.
The Web site is up. The billboards are up. And in February the first TV ads will go up. John Chachas, after months of quietly building a campaign team and the beginnings of a multimillion-dollar war chest that includes $1.3 million of his own money, has finally quit his job as a New York investment banker to run full-time in the Republican primary of the U.S. Senate race.
The ailing real estate market is pushing property tax revenues into a deeper chasm than in 2009, and one analyst predicts local governments will need years to climb back out of the hole.
Henderson officials expected bad news. They just didn’t know how bad it would be.
Johnnie Jordan, the bailiff whose tearful testimony helped oust embattled District Judge Elizabeth Halverson, was arrested by North Las Vegas police Sunday on charges of sexual assault and lewdness with a minor.
If you want to know how deep local governments must dig for ways to cut costs these days, go ask the folks at the Henderson Senior Center. Better ask them soon, though, before they get tired and cranky. Starting Feb. 22, Nevada’s second-largest city will stop serving free coffee at its downtown senior center. The move is expected to save about $25,000 a year in coffee, cups and creamer.
Time magazine has weighed in on Cirque du Soleil’s “Viva Elvis” with a big Valentine.
Although President Barack Obama “expressed interest” last summer in a punitive tax on sugared soft drinks, the Chicago Tribune reports, a key congressional committee, “after initially seeming receptive, ended up refusing to consider it.”
I’m writing in response to Charles Parrish’s Thursday letter to the editor. Finally, somebody gets it.
RENO – Nevada wildlife officials say they plan to ask lawmakers for $1 million to help deal with conflicts between people and wildlife, but are skeptical about getting the money during the current budget crisis.
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