Prepare to be startled. And prepare to forget about the previous-generation Kia Optima that was about as anonymous as a sedan could be, especially when compared to the new model.
Glen Johnson scored an upset in the Super Six super middleweight boxing tournament simply by being part of it.
Johnson, who hasn’t fought at 168 pounds in nearly nine years, will face Allan Green on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden.
North Las Vegas’ largest employee union ratified contract concessions Thursday that, if approved by the City Council, will save $17.7 million and 144 jobs. The agreement includes unpaid furlough days that would essentially shut down city offices between Christmas and New Year’s Day and suspends cost-of-living raises for part of this fiscal year and in 2011.
Dwight Jones, the Clark County School District’s next superintendent, stopped in Las Vegas Thursday and issued a call for community support as he prepares to assume leadership of the nation’s fifth-largest system of public schools.
Chris McEntire, dean at Monaco Middle School, was honored Thursday for defusing a potentially deadly situation involving a student in September who was holding a knife to his secretary’s throat.
