staff photos of investor Beffort and securities regulator Ellsworth coming Monday
For lobbyist Sean Higgins, the 2011 Nevada Legislative session will be like déjà vu. It’s the second time in recent years that Higgins has lobbied a Legislature struggling to make up a huge shortfall and balance the budget.
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Kyle Busch became the first driver in a national NASCAR race to win wire to wire in nearly eight years.
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Phoenix International Raceway is full of bumps and cracks, and has patches on top of patches trying to hold it together for one last race.
SAN DIEGO — Whether it’s at altitude or sea level, San Diego State just can’t stop Jimmer Fredette.
There is a quaintness, an innocence, a satin-warmup-jacket, canvas-basketball-sneaker naivete about watching the dots on the Nevada map decide their high school state basketball championships at Orleans Arena on Saturday that one doesn’t necessarily get when the big and haughty schools from Las Vegas and Reno decide theirs on Friday night.
Miguel Acosta tried to run, but he couldn’t hide from Brandon Rios, and it cost him his WBA lightweight title.
SALT LAKE CITY — An affidavit filed in a Canadian court case shows nine teen girls might have been brought from Canada to the United States to marry jailed polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs and other men from his church.
WELLS — A manhunt ended Saturday with the surrender of a Nevada man who authorities say fired dozens of rounds at law enforcement officers from the roof of his house two days earlier and critically injured a sheriff’s deputy.
When a major event comes to town, organizers fret over counterfeit tickets, bogus media passes and other popular tricks used to sneak into attendance without paying hefty ticket prices.
Outside the Legislative Building in Carson City last week, some 300 protesters waved signs warning “Wisconsin Today, Nevada Tomorrow” to ward off their worry that public employees here could lose collective bargaining rights. But that’s not going to happen, certainly not tomorrow and probably not anytime soon.
SAN DIEGO — This was the scene: On one end of the basketball court at Viejas Arena, San Diego State players danced and pranced and hooted and hollered, bumping chests and slapping hands and laughing up a storm while expending all sorts of energy dunking.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid wanted his call to outlaw legal brothels from Nevada’s rural landscape to prompt an “adult conversation” among lawmakers about the state’s notorious sex trade.
Sen. Harry Reid’s call for an end to legal brothels in Nevada may not get much traction from state lawmakers, but it definitely got the attention of two appliance salesmen at a Las Vegas department store on Wednesday.
It’s standing room only in Judge Cedric Kerns’ courtroom these days. The 30 or so Youth Offender Court defendants and their families squeeze into the sixth-floor room at the Regional Justice Center in hopes that Kerns can wean them off drugs once and for all.
Review-Journal movie critic Carol Cling handicaps the 83rd annual Academy Awards.
PHOENIX — Tea Party supporters packed a Phoenix convention center Saturday to hear from two possible contenders for next year’s Republican presidential nomination, an election the conservative populist movement is determined to shape after helping the GOP make big gains in the midterm elections.
Nevada legislators sat in stunned silence when U.S. Sen. Harry Reid proposed outlawing the state’s brothels last week, but the working girls and brothel employees are speaking loud and clear.