“Good manners are free. Everyone should have them.”
Take two Tiger Beat cover-worthy actors, put them in a 1967 Impala, let simmer for seven years and you’ve got The Salute to “Supernatural” Convention.
One of Jim Daniels’ poems — “Factory Love,” about the relationship between an assembly line worker and the machine at which he works — has been painted on the roof of an actual race car.
The good news: The ABC diving contest “Splash” may be the biggest boost for Louie Anderson’s career in a long time.
Tao is a well-established restaurant at The Venetian on the Strip that opened in September 2005 and has a nightclub that’s reportedly one of the most successful in the country.
Even though we might find them gross, ugly, off-putting or creepy, bugs are our friends and teachers. That’s the message behind the “CSI: Crime Scene Insects” exhibit at Springs Preserve. The exhibit delves into the world of forensic entomology, the use of insects in solving crimes.
Las Vegas had a 20.7 percent year-over-year gain in home asking prices in February, and inventory is no longer in a free fall, online listing firm Trulia.com reported.
In a rerun of five years ago, Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson will be the lead witness in the breach-of-contract case brought by one-time consultant Richard Suen.
■ LICENSES — Nevada fishing and hunting licenses are available. The license year runs from March 1 until the final day of February 2014.
Ice covering the reservoirs at the Kirch Wildlife Management Area has thawed and refrozen two or three times, but with temperatures now holding on the warm side, one probably can be safe in saying that ice-out officially has arrived and with it some of the year’s best trout fishing.
A celebration was in order, but Loyola Marymount coach Max Good would have none of it.
Kelli Thompson had 27 points, and Rejane Verin piled up 26 points and 19 rebounds as the UNLV women’s basketball team pulled away late to beat Boise State 70-60 on Wednesday night at Boise, Idaho.
NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. is used to being in control when he’s in a car, so he probably was feeling strange when he hopped in the passenger seat of a Chevy for the Ultimate Orange Burnout in front of Caesars Palace on Wednesday.
Desert Pines senior Julian Jacobs wasn’t the state’s most prolific scorer this season. He didn’t top the charts in rebounds or assists.
Thanks to these new Generation-6 stock cars, there is an extra day of NASCAR practice at Las Vegas Motor Speedway today, to get them dialed in here. I would arrive early not to beat traffic, but because hearing an auto racing engine at full song reverberate off cavernous and mostly empty grandstands is one of sport’s simple pleasures.
I’ll admit that watching baseball late at night from Taiwan interested me, if only for an inning or so. Not so much for the product on the field, which was minor league at best, but for the fans banging their thundersticks together in synchronized precision.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one in a series of stories previewing local municipal races for the April 2 primary election.
Patients are against it. So are doctors and drug manufacturers and the chamber of commerce.
The first bill sponsored by Democratic Assemblyman Andrew Martin is opposed by both the Nevada Board of Accountancy and the Nevada Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Three drivers went faster than 190 mph in last year’s Kobalt Tools 400 qualifying, among 15 drivers who broke the Las Vegas Motor Speedway qualifying record. That could be nothing compared to qualifying Friday. NASCAR teams have reported faster speeds with the new Generation-6 car, and cars might reach 200 mph entering Turn 1.
About 460 students will be switching elementary schools this fall because of redrawn boundaries for nine southwest campuses. The rezoning will shuffle some students among Batterman, Bendorf, Bryan, Hayes, Hill, Kim, Ries, Roger and Wiener elementary schools. Forbuss, Reedom and Wright will be switching to year-round schedules to alleviate crowding.
Superintendent Dwight Jones said Wednesday he doesn’t want to leave the Clark County School District hanging, and that’s why he is resigning instead of taking a leave of absence to care for his ailing mother in Texas. Jones is ending his two-year tenure with two weeks’ notice, well short of the 90 days required by his contract.
At least one F-35 jet landed at Nellis Air Force Base on Wednesday, though later than expected, after the Pentagon grounded the fleet of planes in February when one was found to have cracked engine blade.
CARSON CITY — Assemblyman Harvey Munford found some surprising opposition Wednesday to his bill to penalize students who cheat: the Clark County School District, the Nevada Association of School Superintendents and the Nevada System of Higher Education.
The North Las Vegas police officers who critically wounded a man in his home Sunday night after department officials said he fired at them were identified Wednesday as Robert Makinster and Christopher Coloma.
Allegiant Travel Co., the parent company of Allegiant Air, said its passenger count on scheduled flights in February was 541,000, up 8.2 percent from a year earlier.
Rosemary Vassiliadis will rank below average among her peers when she becomes Clark County aviation director on June 3 despite a promotion that comes with a nearly 36 percent pay raise.
A Henderson officer suspended after he drove a damaged SWAT vehicle until it caught fire drove at least a mile and a half with sparks shooting from the car.