Rick Lax spreads a deck of 52 cards across a table in the patio area of a west valley bagel restaurant and tells his visitor to pick a card.
Marital conflicts tend to break down into two categories. First, is The Authentic Grievance, some quid pro quo injustice, betrayal or otherwise dereliction in the relationship. If you’re milling about at a party, and you step out onto the back porch to see your wife French-kissing some other man, then you probably have an authentic grievance…
IS THE SALVE IN SCIENCE?: The University of Nevada, Las Vegas hopes to help revive the valley’s flagging economy by pushing to commercialize some of its research. The university hopes laboratory work will lead to spinoff companies that will build the strong technology sector the city has long craved.
Tom Naseef watches a steady lunch crowd stream into the Sourdough Eatery at Mammoth Commercial Center in Henderson, a 75,000-square-foot office and retail development that’s gone back to the bank.
Swapping shrieks along with their shots, Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka made rallies sound like a car alarm. Azarenka’s skills ultimately won out in a 6-1, 6-4 victory Saturday in the women’s championship match of the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Fla.
The final pitted two of the most notorious grunters in tennis, and while both were noisy, the eighth-seeded Azarenka’s shots had more bang as she won nine straight games at one point. Sharapova, seeded 16th, committed 43 unforced errors, held serve only once and came up short with a late comeback bid.
A crowd of people gathers at the Bellagio lake’s edge, watching as a spherical puff of white fog rises above the surface, dissipating quickly in the afternoon sun.
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Johnny Sauter passed Kyle Busch one lap before the finish to win the NASCAR Trucks Series race at Martinsville Speedway on Saturday.
HOUSTON — The dog is the ironic part in all this. Blue 2. That slobbery, lovable canine with the thick folds of skin and 5,000 followers on Twitter, an English bulldog with wide shoulders and matching head and, as typical for its breed, suspect intelligence.
HOUSTON — The lobby at the downtown Hilton here Saturday afternoon was full of what college basketball coaches refer to as lounge lizards. They’re not talking about John Calipari and Jim Calhoun.
Two former UNLV basketball players, Dave Rice and Reggie Theus, are candidates to be the program’s next coach. Larry Johnson wants his name added to the short list.
Humor can be dangerous on the campaign trail, and a joke Carolyn Goodman told Friday on a subject near and dear to many Las Vegans fell flat.
Despite initial plans to loop the monorail through downtown and connect it to the airport, it remains a four-mile shuttle between select Strip resorts. The DesertXpress will terminate in Victorville, Calif., but plans call for an eventual connection to Palmdale, Calif., where it would link into the rest of California’s proposed high-speed network.
WASHINGTON — The House voted last week to eliminate a mortgage relief program the Obama administration established nearly two years ago to help homeowners avoid foreclosure.
After getting UNLV’s basketball program singing again, Lon Kruger is headed to where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain.