Canyon Springs’ boys basketball team enjoyed a historic season that culminated with the first Class 4A state title since the school opened in 2004.
It was a little past 3 p.m. Saturday, and two women hoping to get bets down on the Kentucky Derby had talked their way into the VIP section at the Sunset Station race and sports book, the place where old guys with fat cigars pore over the Daily Racing Form and circle their choices at Golden Gate Fields and Prairie Meadows and Turf Paradise and Woodbine but not Ak-Sar-Ben, which is Nebraska spelled backward with hyphens.
Thanks to updated revenue forecasts, Brian Sandoval will have $274 million to add to his proposed state budget, and the Republican governor pledged to put nearly all the money toward education.
Before becoming an assemblyman, Pat Hickey grew up Catholic then joined the Unification Church, for which he served as a spokesman. His autobiography, “Tahoe Boy,” even discusses his fishing trips with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
Much has changed since Anna Jarvis held the first Mother’s Day on May 10, 1908, organizing observances in Grafton, W.Va., and Philadelphia. To convey the role mothers play in American society today, the U.S. Census Bureau has put together a list of some noteworthy motherly statistics from last year:
A good year is quickly turning into an outstanding one on the Colorado River, where the snow keeps falling and water forecasters keep boosting their predictions. The surface of Lake Mead is now expected to rise about 30 feet over the next nine months, 10 feet more than estimates made one month ago.
Federal and local prosecutors started out as partners in the massive criminal investigation of Dr. Dipak Desai and his role in the hepatitis C outbreak that disrupted the lives of tens of thousands of his former patients. But somewhere along the line that partnership failed.
Guadalupe Delgado felt sick to her stomach when she saw the newspaper photos of the two Colombians charged with the murder of a Las Vegas woman as a result of a botched buttocks enhancement.
To deal with proposed budget cuts, higher education leaders are considering a host of options, including merging Nevada State College into UNLV. Some programs are on the chopping block, too.