Only 11 days ago, Tony Stewart won his third NASCAR Sprint Cup championship, racing from the back of the pack twice, passing 118 cars on the 1.5-mile Homestead-Miami oval. It was 15 years ago that Stewart finished second by 0.086 seconds in the inaugural Indy Racing League event at Walt Disney World Speedway. But a star was born.
Orlando Johnson is a multi-skilled basketball player, and arguably the best in the Big West Conference for three years. He’s also a good student who majors in communication studies and wants to take a shot at TV broadcasting in the future.
The Henderson City Council voted 4-0 with one abstention Tuesday to hire Josh Reid as the next city attorney. During a public comment period that lasted about an hour, Mayor Andy Hafen said the media made bad assumptions in recent weeks by speculating that Hafen and council members would elect Reid as a political favor to his father, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.
Rep. Barney Frank, whose long House career is coming to an end, said Tuesday he was optimistic Congress will allow people to gamble over the Internet. The Massachusetts Democrat said online gambling will remain an important matter in the year remaining in his final term.
A 47-year-old man who said he killed another man in self-defense in January 2010 was sentenced to eight to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
Herman Cain’s campaign on Tuesday paid the $10,000 filing fee to compete in the GOP presidential caucus in Nevada, insisting he’s staying in the race amid accusations he had an affair.
Education will play an important role in Nevada’s economic recovery, according to those in attendance Tuesday at a town hall meeting featuring U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and a host of state and local education leaders. “Jobs are going to go to where the knowledge workers are,” Duncan told a crowd of about 500 people at the College of Southern Nevada.
Top management at the Hooters Hotel has shifted gears and agreed to auction the property rather than try to find an investor to bail out current owners.
A legislative committee will undertake a $150,000 study to compare how Nevada and other states fund higher education. The Board of Regents by Sept. 1 are expected review the study and recommend changes in how higher education is funded for the Legislature to consider at its 2013 session.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Three Connecticut money managers awarded a $254 million Powerball jackpot say there’s no fourth participant despite a claim they’re covering for a winner who wants to stay anonymous.
Former Henderson City Councilman Steve Kirk has picked up the Senate Republican Caucus endorsement in what could be one of the most contested state Senate races of 2012. Kirk, 52, who lost a race for Henderson mayor to Andy Hafen in 2009 by 45 votes, will face incumbent Sen. Shirley Breeden, D-Henderson, in the Senate District 5 race.
CHICAGO — More than 30 years after finding bones beneath John Wayne Gacy’s house, authorities have identified a 19-year-old Chicago construction worker who disappeared in 1976 as one of Gacy’s eight unnamed victims.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Can there be no trust between a kidnapper and his hostages?
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
Fiery wrong-way crash kills 2 on 215 Beltway in northwest Las Vegas
Woman arrested after police say she climbed on Reno craps table, threw chips at people
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school
Asian grocery store looks to add new location near Summerlin