International Game Technology’s top executives told the company’s shareholders that allowing the slot machine manufacturer’s former chairman to win three seats on the board of directors in a proxy fight “would be a step in the wrong direction.”
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Tom Brady is so good at this playoff thing, he seems to be going for a championship every year.
One fluke play turned a great season into a great depression. Peyton Manning jogged into the tunnel, one with no light at the end, and just like that, the Denver Broncos went dark.
RENO – Ten lawyers have applied to replace retiring Washoe County District Judge Steven Elliott.
CARSON CITY – A 21-year-old man has been ordered to stand trial in the 2011 heroin-related death of a woman in Carson City.
RENO – Traffic deaths rose slightly in Nevada last year, but serious injury accidents dropped dramatically and the number of fatalities still remains nearly half as low as just six years ago, thanks in part to motorists buckling up.
SALT LAKE CITY – Utah Democrats are pressing for an independent investigation into allegations that newly elected Utah Attorney General John Swallow helped arrange a deal to quash a federal probe into a businessman.
After heading the FBI in Nevada for three years, Kevin Favreau has became a salesman of sorts.
Premium cable networks HBO and Showtime fought for supremacy in the Golden Globes TV awards Sunday with three honors each for the CIA thriller “Homeland and “Game Change.”
Jodie Foster came out without really coming out, and suggested she was retiring from acting without exactly saying so at Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards.
“Argo” is in big with the Golden Globes, but not so much with the Academy Awards. “Lincoln” is sitting pretty with the Oscars but was mostly left out in the cold at the Globes. Sunday’s Globes left the Feb. 24 Academy Awards picture still muddled, with the Iran hostage thriller “Argo” winning for best drama and director for Ben Affleck, a prize he already knows he can’t win at the Oscars, where he wasn’t even nominated.