Las Vegas gets back in the reality show game this week. Binion’s hotel-casino, an old Vegas landmark, is the focus of TLC’s “Casino Confidential,” which airs Thursday at 8 p.m.
It was clear things were getting heated in Carson City on Monday when Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson, R-Henderson, took the microphone and said tartly: “I’m going to try to be as respectful as I can in my response.”
The Nevada Legislature last week took up three measures relating to self-defense rights, including a bill that would allow public school and university system employees with concealed-weapon permits to carry their guns at work.
In the case of some ingredients, it takes just a smidgen to add flavor to a dish, and truffle butter is one of them. Reader Stephen Najmowski, who’s looking for truffle butter, can get both white and black truffle butters locally. Jackie Raim emailed that Whole Foods Market carries both versions, and the Jensens at Village Meat and Wine, 5025 S. Eastern Ave., and Ron Lutz of The Butcher Block, 7625 S. Rainbow Blvd., said they do as well. …
From the Light Group, Citizens Kitchen & Bar serves the updated classic American food of corporate executive chef Brian Massie and also has a grab-and-go counter and an espresso bar.
Asparagus is, it seems, a source of much debate. Green or white? Thick or thin? Snap or cut? Peel or not? For Christopher Noble, executive chef of Ruth’s Chris Steak House at Harrah’s, there’s also traditional and nontraditional. In the restaurant, he prepares asparagus the classic way, with hollandaise sauce. At home, though, it’s a different story.
Ilir Latifi will make his Ultimate Fighting Championship debut on Saturday when he steps in for injured teammate Alexander Gustafsson to fight light heavyweight Gegard Mousasi in the main event of UFC on Fuel TV 9 in Stockholm.
An Assembly bill submitted in March would modify a controversial requirement that delays real estate lenders from foreclosing on properties secured by a residential loan.
The UNLV women’s golf team shot 26-over-par 314 on Tuesday to place fifth in the 15-team Farms Invitational in San Diego. The Rebels had a three-round total of 50-over 914, with Southern California winning at 11-over 875.
CINCINNATI — Reds outfielder Ryan Ludwick tore cartilage in his right shoulder while sliding into third base during the season opener and will need surgery, leaving the defending National League Central champions without one of their main run producers for an undetermined period.
Their time together wasn’t long, but former NBA star Spencer Haywood once was coached by Jerry Tarkanian.
NEW YORK — Pierre Jackson has saved some of the best basketball of his career for the end of it.
Bitter rivals in the 1980s, ex-Celtics guard Danny Ainge and ex-Lakers coach Pat Riley still can’t stand each other.
As Michael Jordan was wreaking offensive havoc in the NBA in the 1990s, there wasn’t much attention being given to defensive-minded players, even though Jordan was a pretty fair defender. But Gary Payton changed that.
Several generations of players owe thanks to Spencer Haywood for his courage to take on the NBA and pave the way for them to become multimillionaires earlier than they would have been entitled. But that courage has come with a price.
Standards make the world go ’round. They help determine who we date, what we eat, how we interact with everyone else.
We were a lovely audience, but he really had to go.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed an effort to map the brain’s activity in unprecedented detail as a step toward finding better ways to treat such conditions as Alzheimer’s, autism, stroke and traumatic brain injuries.
Henderson Mayor Andy Hafen set out to defeat all six of his challengers in the primary election, and his wish came true Tuesday night.
A 6-year-old girl was killed Tuesday in the southwest valley after she apparently tried to enter a moving vehicle without the driver’s knowledge, Las Vegas police said.
Incumbents cruised to victory in three Las Vegas City Council races Tuesday, with Councilmen Steve Ross, Stavros Anthony and Bob Beers retaining their seats.
Dozens of residents in a Las Vegas housing project with a history of violence were “doing the wobble” and dancing to DJ Thump’s songs Tuesday evening at a party meant to “take back the community” after a weekend shooting left six people wounded, two men critically.
North Las Vegas voters shelved Mayor Shari Buck Tuesday, ousting the first-term incumbent in favor of former state Sen. John Lee.
Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick insisted Tuesday that police departments in Clark County specify how many additional officers they will hire before she backs a bill that could impose an additional quarter-cent “More Cops” sales tax.
An inmate found unconscious after an apparent suicide attempt at the Clark County Detention Center last week died Tuesday at University Medical Center, Las Vegas police said.
A plan by state Senate Republicans to spend $600 million to $800 million more a year on education starting in 2015 might be derailed by a secretary of state’s legal opinion released Tuesday.