Top Fuel dragsters and Nitro Funny Cars make the most noise at drag races with their 8,000-horsepower, supercharged engines. They capture the most attention at NHRA national tour events such as this weekend’s NHRA Las Vegas Nationals.
First-year College of Southern Nevada baseball coach Chris Sheff is the subject of an in-house investigation regarding allegations that include whether players were inappropriately charged for a mandatory conditioning program.
Local commercial real estate professionals from Commercial Alliance Las Vegas joined volunteers from nearby Sunrise Baptist Church to clean up trash and remove graffiti at Winterwood Park on the east side of Las Vegas Oct. 23.
John Ritter (center), CEO and chairman of the board for Focus Property Group, developer of the Mountain’s Edge master plan, was joined by U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, Clark County Commissioners Susan Brager and Steve Sisolak (all flanking Reid), and students from the community’s Carolyn S. Reedom and William V. Wright elementary schools to plant the cornerstone tree Wednesday at the new Nathaniel Jones Park, which will be completed in fall 2011. The event also celebrated the first-phase funding of the Mountain’s Edge Regional Park, which Reid, Titus, Brager and Sisolak helped secure.
North Las Vegas police are investigating the death of a man near Simmons Street and Carey Avenue.
The Sharron Angle campaign has banned a local television station from the Republican Party’s election party Tuesday and might ban another, saying reporters from the stations “showed up unannounced” and “ambushed” the Republican U.S. Senate candidate at McCarran International Airport on Friday, according to a campaign spokeswoman.