The mercury was pushing 100 degrees Sunday afternoon with nary a cloud in the sky. And if you can’t be in the bleachers watching a ballgame and quaffing a beer on a day like that, then watching college kids do somersaults on man-made waves on a man-made lake isn’t a bad backup plan.
They have stuck with us through a lifetime of bad habits – the downing of sugary sodas, ice-chomping, pen-chewing, smoking, all-night bleaching. It’s a wonder they didn’t pull up roots and make a run for it long ago.
But advances in oral health care have made it likely that today’s middle-agers will grow into their twilight years with the same teeth they’ve had since grade school.
Eric Lampe’s overtime goal gave the Wranglers a 2-1 victory over the Idaho Steelheads on Sunday night in Boise, Idaho, as Las Vegas clinched the best-of-7, ECHL Western Conference semifinal series, 4-1.
Outside Henry Chanin’s office at The Meadows School is the golf cart he must use to move around campus.
It is a reminder of one way the hepatitis C he acquired in 2006 during a colonoscopy at Dr. Dipak Desai’s Desert Shadow Endoscopy Center has changed his life.
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It reached 99 degrees Sunday in Las Vegas, a record high for April 22, according to the National Weather Service.
Sunday’s temperature beat the previous high temperature for the date set in 1939, when it hit 97 degrees.
The date-night movies “Think Like a Man” and “The Lucky One” finally have knocked “The Hunger Games” off its No. 1 box-office perch. “Think Like a Man,” based on Steve Harvey’s dating-advice best-seller, debuted as the top weekend draw with $33 million, according to studio estimates.
The Nevada Republican Party on Sunday elected former Las Vegas City Councilman Michael McDonald as its new chairman. He vowed to unite the fractious GOP and take the party in a “new direction” during the key 2012 election year.
A loud explosion heard across much of Nevada and California on Sunday morning rattled homes and prompted a flood of calls to law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Sierra Nevada, some reporting fireball sightings.
Sandra Stosky, professor of education at the University of Arkansas, wrote an op-ed column published in the Review-Journal on April 5 headlined, “Reading teachers should pass a reading test.” I was taken back by Ms. Stosky’s extremely narrow view on how initial reading should be taught to youngsters.
