When the Sin City Rollergirls helped celebrate the opening of the Bonneville Transit Center last week, Clark County Commissioner Larry Brown suggested that Mayor Oscar Goodman become part of the roller derby squad with his own nickname and number: Bom Bay 80.
Here’s your October surprise when no one was watching Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District tilted Republican.
Results of the first nonpartisan public poll in seven weeks show Republican challenger Joe Heck has opened up a 10 percentage point lead over incumbent Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev.
CARSON CITY — The state treasurer’s race remains a tossup, but the incumbents holding other constitutional offices are heading for apparent victories in Tuesday’s general election, according to a poll conducted for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and 8NewsNow.
In the last full fiscal year, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District saw increases in both visitor volume and in materials checked out. “We are open fewer hours, we’re busier and we’re doing it with fewer people,” said Pat Marvel, a spokeswoman for the district.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s re-election campaign began at 4 a.m. on Nov. 3, 2004. That’s when he decided to seek the Democratic leadership job of Tom Daschle, just hours after the South Dakota senator’s historic defeat and after Reid’s own easy victory.
The 2010 election has found Nevada at the political epicenter of a contentious campaign season. R-J photographers have captured the campaigns’ moments across the state. Here’s what they saw.
CARSON CITY — About 6,600 more Democrats than Republicans turned out to cast ballots in the two weeks of early voting in Nevada, according to preliminary numbers released today.
A motorcycle officer was involved in an accident shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday at Katie Avenue and Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas police have confirmed.
TCU beat the Rebels 48-6 tonight in a Mountain West Conference game at Sam Boyd Stadium. TCU improves to 9-0 (5-0 MWC) while UNLV drops to 1-7 (1-3). The Rebels travel to BYU next Saturday.
The one wild card in NASCAR’s 10-race Chase for the Championship is finally upon us, where the fate of the eventual Sprint Cup Champion is in the hands, or banking, of monstrous Talladega Superspeedway. The 2.66-mile beast of a track doesn’t play to the favorites; it’s an equal opportunity track that punishes — and rewards — everyone to the same hostile degree.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — Kingman police said a teenager was dead at the scene of a single vehicle traffic accident early today. Lieutenant Dave Coffin identified the victim as Juan Jose Sanchez, 17.
Senate candidate Sharron Angle shook hands with well-wishers Saturday as she walked the two-mile Nevada Day Parade route not once, but twice. Meanwhile, her opponent, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., greeted spectators and participants before the parade began, and then watched from a seat along the parade route.
Las Vegas police said alcohol was a factor in a fatal car accident early this morning on the Paradise/Maryland Interconnect at East Westwinds Way.
WASHINGTON — In the shadow of the Capitol and the election, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert entertained a huge throng Saturday at a “sanity” rally poking fun at the nation’s ill-tempered politics, fear-mongers and doomsayers.