Those who poke around in the desert Southwest long enough encounter strange, mysterious and even inexplicable places. Such sites include the enormous figures created by people of ancient cultures living along the Colorado River near present-day Blythe, Calif. The artists of prehistory left behind rock art sites called geoglyphs or intaglios that lay undiscovered by non-natives until spotted from the air by a pilot in 1932.
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School. For most adults, it was a time of the past, but for Phyllis Langlois, it’s now.
FISHING FOR ANSWERS: A recent online survey conducted by the Las Vegas Review-Journal found that most area businesspeople think Nevada needs more economic-development activity. Poll participants offer ideas on how to boost the number of businesses moving or expanding to the Silver State.
Very few, if any, of the 2 million people living in Las Vegas could bear one summer without air conditioning. That’s what makes Ken Goodrich’s business somewhat recession-proof.
The crowd stood for the third time as Findlay Prep cleared out for point guard Myck Kabongo.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — There were plenty of boos raining down on Jimmer Fredette from the first sellout crowd in seven years at Colorado State’s Moby Arena. Brigham Young’s star guard answered the Rams’ fans point by point.
RENO — Deonte Burton scored 18 points and Dario Hunt 16 as UNR beat Louisiana Tech 66-58 on Saturday night.
It would have been easy to mistake Ashlie Chumley for a first-time mom, considering the way she dressed her new teddy bear Saturday at a mass baby shower for military families. After all, she put the diaper on OVER the bear’s bodysuit.
HAWTHORNE, Nev. — Four earthquakes struck in about two hours time in a remote area of western Nevada.
RENO — Activists are criticizing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s plans to remove about 2,000 wild horses from the range near two northeastern Nevada ranches that the wife of oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens purchased to serve as a horse sanctuary.
RENO — Washoe County sheriff’s deputies said a body was found near the Mount Rose summit southwest of Reno.
