Antonio Margarito became a welterweight champion by refusing to back down in the ring. He apparently sees no reason to start now, even when it might benefit his tarnished career.
At year-round Bell Elementary School, where a majority of students are limited English speakers who come from low-income families, Principal Tim Adams worries that achievement will suffer if the school is forced back to a nine-month schedule.
Eleven seconds. That’s all the Wranglers needed Tuesday to erase a two-goal deficit and build some much-needed momentum against Utah in Game 1 of their first-round ECHL playoff series.
Elaine Wynn had one of the best seats in the house Monday for that epic NCAA Final Four thriller in Indianapolis.
The state Supreme Court probably will decide soon whether an initiative aimed at redefining state law to prevent abortions will be allowed on the ballot in November.
Paul Rudnick’s 2006 “Regrets Only” is a play about wisecracks, and if that’s enough to satisfy you, then you might enjoy Las Vegas Little Theatre’s production.
Fat Bastard Merlot is a deep dark blood-red color with a semi-opaque core going out into a fine crimson-red rim definition and medium-high viscosity.
Amore Pizza & Pasta, 3945 S. Durango Drive, received 38 demerits March 25. Violations included no thermometer at cooks’ line make table. GRADE: C.
The light at the end of the tunnel looks a little less like an oncoming train these days, but we’re far from singing “Happy Days Are Here Again,” especially in Las Vegas.
The origin of the margarita is as cloudy as the lime juice in it. Hussong’s in Ensenada, Mexico — founded in 1880 by German immigrant Johan Hussong — lays one of at least eight claims to the tequila cocktail. (In 1941, its story goes, bartender Don Carlos Orozco mixed tequila, Damiana and lime for the first known time and served it over ice in a salt-rimmed glass to Margarita Henkel, daughter of the German ambassador to Mexico.)
Readers sometimes ask why people search for the foods of their youth. Simple. It’s because those foods are connected to fond memories. I well remember the first Big Boy I had. It wasn’t Bob’s, but another franchise, and it was quite the big deal in the days before the ubiquitous Big Mac rendered special sauce not so special.
At their March meeting, Federal Reserve officials stressed the need to make sure record-low interest rates don’t feed new speculative bubbles in stocks or other assets.
Twelve teams of Nevada students have been named finalists for the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition. The students will compete not only for cash awards, but also for better career opportunities, event organizers say.
At his lowest point, his gut still churning from what could have been and from all the empty possessions, his mind still watching the flight of a half-court shot that would have changed his and the lives of his players forever, Butler coach Brad Stevens spoke for college basketball fans everywhere.
It’s a difficult balancing act for North Las Vegas city officials who are budgeting for major capital projects while cutting city jobs in an economy where every dollar counts.
Republican Brian Sandoval on Tuesday announced plans to launch the first TV ad of his gubernatorial campaign.
A 20-year-old man charged with the Thanksgiving Day fatal shooting outside a northwest valley CVS Pharmacy pleaded not guilty Tuesday.
It’s been about a decade since Nevada campaign strategist Pete Ernaut first took up the political cause of John Ensign.
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