Before he began winning football games and influencing lives as a football coach at Canyon Springs High School, Hernandez James “Hunkie” Cooper was arguably the best all-around football player in UNLV history. Cooper was given his first name in memory of the best friend of his father. His father and the man Cooper only knows as “Hernandez” made a pact that should one of them be killed in the Vietnam War, the survivor would name a son in memory of the other.
Community theater companies come and go, arriving with grand pronouncements of artistic intent, then folding the tents. Others stick, producing a handful of mainstream shows each season. Still others specialize, confining themselves to offbeat, fringe and out-there theater. Then there’s Las Vegas Little Theatre, the city’s longest-running nonprofit theater.
Style-conscious car and truck buyers are willing to pay a premium to personalize their vehicles, spending $1,000 to $3,500 a year on accessories after the initial sale. To maximize profits on every sale, dealers need to find ways to tap into the $28.6 billion-a-year business of custom parts and accessories, a panel of automotive experts said Wednesday at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas.
More than 600 residents attended a meeting Wednesday night at Coronado High School to oppose a proposed mining operation on federal land west of Henderson.
Sen. Dean Heller has introduced a bill to alter how the Federal Communications Commission forms regulations over the trillion-dollar telecommunications industry. The bill gives Heller a piece of high profile legislation even as it faces long odds to passage in the Democrat-controlled Senate. It also elevates the Nevada Republican’s visibility among deep pocket communications firms that lawmakers from both parties court for campaign donations.
Once the epicenter of Las Vegas glitz and glam, the Sahara was forced to close six months ago, but a remodeling plan approved Wednesday could breathe life into a hotel-casino that served celebrities and common folk alike for almost 60 years.
Police Sgt. Richard Strader’s job is responding to fatal vehicle crashes. Discussing recent deaths involving vehicles and pedestrians, Strader said, “It is my belief that 99.9 percent of the accidents we respond to are avoidable.”
A nightclub at the center of a downtown noise controversy will enclose its outdoor concert venue in an effort to make peace with neighbors. Elam and Francisco Lara, the club owner, commented on the enclosure plans Wednesday after the Las Vegas City Council approved a one-year review of Azul Tequila’s temporary tavern license.
A former Chaparral High School mariachi teacher was sentenced to three years probation Wednesday for having sexual conduct with a student.
The U.S. Marshals Service has been ordered to seize $63,720 from Righthaven LLC, a company that files copyright infringement lawsuits, to fulfill a judgment against the company. A writ of execution was requested by lawyers for Kentucky website poster Wayne Hoehn, who obtained the judgment for legal fees after winning a lawsuit Righthaven filed against him.
Several Supreme Court justices made spirited defenses Wednesday on behalf of a Clark County district judge who has been blocked from collecting retirement benefits that he earned earlier in his career. Despite justices’ comments supporting District Judge Douglas Smith, the Supreme Court made no decision Wednesday on whether Smith can collect a full $160,000-a-year district judge salary and retirement benefits.
When Nevadans went into the voting booths in 1994 and 1996, they assumed they were voting for term limits for district attorneys and many other elected officials, lawyer Bradley Schrager told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. He argued that district attorneys such as Arthur Mallory in Churchill County should not be permitted to hold office any longer.
The UNLV football team already was a 41-point underdog against No. 5 Boise State, and the Rebels’ odds became even longer Wednesday with the announcement that five players were suspended for Saturday’s game at Sam Boyd Stadium. The loss of sophomore running back Tim Cornett is the biggest blow.
The founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” video empire has upped the ante in a legal dispute over a $2 million casino debt with Strip casino developer Steve Wynn and the Wynn Las Vegas casino.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has sentenced Lindsay Lohan to serve 30 days in jail for a probation violation.
HONOLULU — Safeway is declining to press charges against a Honolulu couple whose arrests over stolen sandwiches led state workers to take custody of their 2-year-old daughter and sparked nationwide outrage.
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