Did you know that Abe Lincoln was a freestyle wrestler? He wasn’t the only president who wrestled. Andrew Jackson wrestled. Why do you think they called him Old Hickory?
My life is complete. I found a Greco. He’s the real deal with a name to match. Panagiotys Gounaridis.
Federal prosecutors disclosed a 2008 FBI investigation of indicted Nevada power broker Harvey Whittemore and longtime friend U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
William Robinson II got plenty of chuckles as he made his case Monday at a candidate forum for the seven applicants in Assembly District 17. The 34-year-old — and youngest of the bunch — joked that he still has “10 or 12 good years” left.
The upsetting reality is that we have very little control over what happens out there on the roads. Much relies on drivers of the other 1.3 million vehicles the DMV says are registered in Clark County.
Sometimes, the victim is an anonymous creature that quietly perishes along the highway, missed by none.
Senate Bill 346 is looking like a favorite at the Nevada Legislature.
WASHINGTON — The Senate last week set aside proposed gun legislation after failing to gather enough support for three key provisions sought by President Barack Obama in response to the December massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
It’s Nevada’s biggest ongoing construction project, and you help build it every day. Each rotten apple, spork, pizza box and Styrofoam cup you throw out is a brick in the $300 million pyramid of trash at Las Vegas’ Apex landfill.
Benson Henderson won a split decision over Gilbert Melendez in the main event of UFC on Fox 7 on Saturday night to retain the Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight title.
Moapa Band of Paiutes tribe members led a 16-mile Earth Day weekend walk to put the spotlight on plans to close a coal-fired power plant and build a solar energy plant in Southern Nevada.
Demonstrators rallied outside the federal building in Las Vegas on Saturday to protest U.S. Sen. Dean Heller’s vote against more extensive background checks for gun purchasers.
Las Vegas police were searching Saturday for a baby blue Cadillac — possibly with bullet holes — used by three men to flee the scene of a deadly shooting Friday night.
He launched his heart at her like an invading army attempting to catapult a boulder over a castle wall.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is reversing course and ordering flags lowered statewide in honor of the seven Camp Lejeune Marines who died in a training explosion last month in Nevada.
A mother who was found dead along with her two children at their home on Friday afternoon stabbed the boy and girl before turning the knife on herself, Las Vegas police said Saturday.
With a little more than six weeks to go in the 2013 Nevada legislative session, one thing is for sure: There’s a lot more to come and the stakes are high as most of the big issues — budgets and taxes — have yet to evolve.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio on Saturday touted a bipartisan immigration reform plan as a way to end “de facto amnesty” for 11 million people living illegally in the United States and to better track immigrants who might harm national security.
North Las Vegas police arrested a man Friday on allegations that he sexually assaulted and robbed a 79-year-old woman.
There’s no two ways about it. The recession took its toll on the vacation ownership, or time-share, industry.
Since the Wet ’n Wild water park on the Las Vegas Strip closed in 2004, Las Vegans have been bone dry in the premier water amenity category. Sure there are some great pools in town. Some have slides that don’t come close to quenching a thrill-seeker’s thirst, but they’ll do in a pinch for an 8-year-old. Now, nine years later, thanks to the vision of a handful of business people, the valley will soon be home to two water parks by Memorial Day weekend.
When Tracy Omar goes to work at the Springs Preserve, just about everything around him has some kind of story to tell that touches on the extraordinary.
If you’re reading this in the morning, by tomorrow’s breakfast Twitter will have another 150,000 new subscribers. More than 33 million unique visits will have occurred on YouTube, and more than 333,000 on Pinterest. And Facebook will continue sweating the competition while posting more than 680,000 new pieces of content each minute.
With laptops, tablets and cellphones in hand, there are professionals out there who can’t, or won’t, leave work behind, either for a dinner with friends or for a much-needed vacation.
During the past five years Southern Nevada, along with other areas in the state and across the country, has been hit hard with the loss of jobs and slow moving economic recovery. In an effort to improve Southern Nevada’s economic outlook and address employers’ and job seekers’ concerns, the Southern Nevada Workforce Investment Board, known as Workforce Connections, has a full-press plan in place .
The use of fine art in Las Vegas hotels has exploded during the past decade, fulfilling desires of returning tourists and exceeding expectations of hotel executives who dream about, acquire and design the art that dots the Strip.
American women pursue equal rights in the workplace. An irony of that workplace chase is that women are disproportionately represented in executive management and on corporate boards when women are America’s primary buying force in a consumer-driven economy.
Fifty thousand more jobs in Nevada by 2014 is Gov. Brian Sandoval’s grand goal in the two-year economic development plan he unveiled last year.