Miss America contestants, including Miss Maine Arikka Dyan Knights, far right, Miss Hawaii Jalee Fuselier and Miss North Dakota Beth Dennison, seated left, prepare for a runway show and autograph session Saturday at the Fashion Show mall. All 53 contestants are participating in a week of activities, culminating at the end of the week with the Miss America Pageant at Planet Hollywood Resort.
Monday: The Clark County Board of Equalization meets at 8 a.m. in commission chambers of the Clark County Government Center, 500 S. Grand Central Parkway. The North Las Vegas Police Chief’s Advisory Council meets at 5 p.m. in the Police Department Training Auditorium, 1301 E. Lake Mead Blvd.
A few hours after his release from a 27-month stint in federal prison for his role in a 2007 armed robbery involving O.J. Simpson, Clarence “C.J.” Stewart prepared to face a throng of local media cameras.
Fifty-four days ago, a lonely old man put a gun to his head and set off a mystery. He fell to the floor in his closet, where his only two friends would find him later. No obituary ran for William Roberts Lindsay. There were no services. His body was cremated and arrangements he had planned well in advance were begun.
Every month or so on a Saturday, Rep. Dina Titus would set up a card table outside a supermarket or at a community center in her Southern Nevada district, put up a welcoming sign and meet with people for two or three hours.
To the editor: A recent opinion piece in the Review-Journal touted the benefits of a voucher system for public school students. The folly of such an idea has been demonstrated time after time in schools across the nation. Voucher systems simply do not work. They create more bureaucracy, open the system to legal action and do not improve student opportunities or test scores. Let’s examine some of the major points against a school voucher system.
Josh Liebowitz interviewed students at Basic High School.
In just 10 years, spas have become big business in Las Vegas. When Shawn Granito moved here in 1992, The Mirage had the only prominent spa in a Strip hotel. Now, she says, it’s unusual for a hotel not to have a spa.
Ennis Jordan, 63, a semiretired business owner who worked mostly in the construction materials trade, owns 15 acres on Mount Charleston. Here, at Bristlecone Heights, Jordan has built what he confidently believes to be, at 9,125 feet, the highest dwelling in Nevada.
All the hotel room sellouts from the International Consumer Electronics Show and other industry indicators have local convention executives detecting modest, if uneven, improvements in the year ahead.
Chace Stanback didn’t appear any different on the outside as he quietly explained in his typical low-key fashion his breakout from a three-week slump.
When its offense is running smoothly, UNLV has all sorts of scoring options. Senior guard Tre’Von Willis, who led all scorers, said losing was not an option.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — They have given up trying to figure out those wacky play-calling cards. The ones with pictures of TV personalities and maps and moose and bizarre logos and symbols. The ones that could mean anything from formation to protection to run to pass to someone get Phil Knight a cup of coffee in his luxury suite.
With a speech heavy on optimism but peppered with talk of shared sacrifice, Brian Sandoval was sworn in Monday as Nevada’s 30th governor and the first Hispanic to hold the post.
Is Gov. Brian Sandoval the white knight Nevada Republicans have been waiting for? Fractured by the 2010 elections, the GOP certainly seems in need of rescue. And leaders on the national and state levels point to the popular and telegenic Sandoval as a promising standard-bearer.
TUCSON, Ariz. — U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head Saturday by a gunman who opened fire outside a grocery store while she met with voters, killing a federal judge and five others in a rampage that left Americans questioning whether divisive politics had pushed the suspect over the edge.