Judy Wax’s baby boy is finished eating. She can tell because the formula has disappeared down the tube jutting out of his bellybutton.
It’ll hardly be the first time they’re hearing it, but: Boy, do Dawn Eubanks-Cox and daughter Alissa Eubanks look alike.
OPENING SEASON: With unemployment high and job openings sometimes slow to come, more local residents are becoming entrepreneurs and starting their own businesses.
RENO — If it weren’t for the roller hockey players who took over the Virginia Street Plaza on a mild spring evening, the south end of the city’s main casino road could be mistaken for a desolate Nevada community or Atlantic City.
For Summit Partners, a startup company funded partly by tapping a home-equity loan, landing a contract with the massive Fontainebleau seemed like a vaccination against the standard growing pains.
Pam Borda is 777 Gaming’s biggest fan. As executive director of the Elko Economic Diversification Authority, Borda was faced with a horrifying problem. Two of Elko’s largest casinos were facing closure due to the bankruptcy of their owner.
Fifteen years before Jerry Tarkanian arrived at UNLV, where he coached the basketball program to national prominence, there were tumbleweeds and humble beginnings.
In what may rank as Nevada’s largest ever punitive damage award, a jury on Friday awarded a Henderson couple $500 million in the first trial related to the valley’s hepatitis outbreak.
The Stateline earthquake fault slumbers like a giant deep in the rocks west of Pahrump, and geologists wonder when it will wake up again and unleash a ground-shaking jolt toward the Las Vegas Valley 50 miles away.
