The Moapa Band of Paiutes recently walked 50 miles from Moapa to Las Vegas earlier this month to raise awareness of health problems that they blame on NV Energy’s Reid Gardner power plant.
Las Vegas surgeon Kevin Petersen often hears that good hard-working people fall through the government’s health care safety net. That is why he continues Helping Hands Surgical Care, a nonprofit that has a half-dozen doctors performing surgeries at no cost to the uninsured.
Every time I hear sports talk show host Paul Howard selling LASIK eye surgery – it only took him a few painless minutes to acquire 20-15 vision – I think of a woman I wrote about in Texas who lost her sight from a laser procedure. Her emotional appeal to me to let people know that such surgery is not without risk has stayed with me.
A line of dumbbells at the gym start out harmlessly enough, at 5 pounds. A few steps down the line, you’ll spot the 20s and 30s, then the 60s, and before you know it you’re at the 140-pounders thinking, why bother?
I’ll show you why gyms provide a variety of dumbbells.
San Jose State and Utah State will join the Mountain West Conference in all sports in 2013, a source with knowledge of the talks said this evening.
Both schools will leave the Western Athletic Conference, which appears on its last legs.
Everything was set up for Bryce Harper to do something heroic Sunday afternoon. With a runner on and two outs in the ninth inning, Harper had a shot to tie the game for the Washington Nationals with one swing. The count was full when he fouled off a fastball.
Gov. Brian Sandoval, who as a candidate angered Hispanics when he supported Arizona’s tough immigration laws two years ago, repeated his stance that a similar law is unnecessary in Nevada, regardless of how the U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Arizona case.
A woman suspected of drunken driving struck two pedestrians, one of whom died late Saturday night, Las Vegas police said Sunday.
Poker legend “Amarillo Slim” Preston, who dominated the tables long before the game’s massive growth in popularity, died early Sunday morning after a long illness at the age of 83.
1. Econometric analyses continually confirm that an effective classroom teacher is the most powerful in-school instrument currently available to propel student academic achievement.