Rep. Dean Heller made it official Tuesday, announcing his candidacy to replace Sen. John Ensign and immediately garnering the support of several possible Republican rivals.
The Review-Journal newsroom is full of basketball scribes and devoted sports gamblers, but last year’s NCAA Tournament pool was won by Las Vegas City Hall reporter and casual fan Alan Choate.
Tera Burbank and her husband, John Clark, are construction workers who have been out of work for more than a year. The Henderson residents live off unemployment and student loans.
Frank Mercadante Jr. likes to wager on college football; it doesn’t really matter who is playing. He’ll bet $20 or $30 on a regular-season game, sometimes he’ll place $50 on the outcome of Bowl Championship Series bowl game.
No matter what, David Cicotello knew he had to survive.
There’s a phrase shared by candidates in the Ward 1 Las Vegas City Council race: “Neighborhood deterioration.”
If Jacob Snow is going to talk the talk, he had better walk the walk, or at the very least ride the bus. His words, not mine.
Lee Horstein remembers the phone call from Dr. Michael Kaplan. “It was after my second prostate biopsy from him about four years ago,” the 69-year-old retired businessman said as he sat in an auditorium at the Nevada Cancer Institute. “I had a feeling that it wasn’t going to be good news when the doctor himself was on the phone.”
After failing for five straight sessions to repeal the state’s 39-year-old motorcycle helmet law, Sen. Don Gustavson has developed a new, perhaps winnable, strategy: Let them take off their helmets, and they will come.
Jimmer Fredette scored 34 points Saturday to lift third-seeded Brigham Young to an 89-67 victory over 11th-seeded Gonzaga and send the Cougars to New Orleans for the regional semifinals.