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.
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Tre’Von Willis scored a season-high 22 points and Chace Stanback had 15 as UNLV rolled to an 83-49 victory over Texas Christian in a Mountain West Conference game at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The Seattle Seahawks, a 10-point home underdog, upset New Orleans, the defending Super Bowl champs, today in Seattle in the first NFL playoff game of the season