Nevada lawmakers voted early Monday to approve a bill they say could create thousands of jobs directly and indirectly through road construction.
The warning was ominous, its predictions dire: Oceanographers issued a bulletin telling Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a killer wave was heading their way and that “urgent action should be taken to protect lives and property.”
NEW YORK — A new Web sensation called Chatroulette feels like a throwback to the early 1990s, when online chat rooms brimmed with lonely strangers looking for meaningful connections, meaningless sex, or something in between. But this time, there’s a twist: Everyone on the site has a webcam.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — These Olympics will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. For every golden moment, there was a glitch. Opening day of an electrifying hockey tournament was also the day 20,000 tickets had to be canceled for Cypress Mountain. Even the Games’ emotional high point — a figure skating bronze for Canada’s Joannie Rochette, whose mother had died four days earlier — was tinged with sorrow.
Norman Castellanos smiled broadly as he talked about dying. His wife, Amabilia, and daughter, Daisy, with him at his hospital bed at University Medical Center, smiled right along with him.
Defending Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson zipped past teammate Jeff Gordon with 17 laps remaining and won NASCAR’s Shelby American on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Twitter is opening up a whole new world for NASCAR fans who prefer more spice in their news.
Former NHL first-round draft pick Alex Bourret hit bottom last season, when he scored only three goals and 14 points in 48 games for the American Hockey League’s San Antonio Rampage.
The Tea Party of Nevada is a threat to the local Tea Party movement, according to leaders of the latter. And they want to make it clear there is a distinct difference between the two before the upcoming November election.
Because of declining tax revenue caused by the deepening recession, Nevada’s government faced an $887 million budget shortfall, requiring a 20 percent overall cut in spending over the next 16 months.