The Clark County District Attorney’s office has received a national award for most improved child support enforcement, which includes doing a better job establishing paternity and obtaining new child support court orders, current and overdue support payments.
A Flying J Truck Stop has opened at Whiskey Pete’s at Primm Valley, expanding the services offered at the casino location on the Nevada-California border.
Peter Dixon was driving his car north on South Jones Boulevard just past Alta Drive when he hit a loose water valve cover. The 7-inch metal discs that rest atop water valves usually are level with the street. Not this one.
LOS ANGELES — Shirley Jones opens the door to her house and appears every inch the ladylike Marian the librarian or sweet farm girl Laurey or cheerfully steady Mrs. Partridge, offering a warm smile and handshake.
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — An Ohio man possibly influenced by a serial killer was charged Monday with aggravated murder after three bodies wrapped in trash bags were found in suburban Cleveland.
A pedestrian is dead after being hit by a car Sunday night on Boulder Highway near Tropicana Avenue.
First there was the tea party takeover of the Republican Party in Nevada.
As rain sluiced through the valley for the second night in a row, and more rain and wind expected in the coming days, Las Vegas can find some relief in cooler temperatures.
I keep seeing the “It Can Wait” public service commercials. There’s a website, itcanwait.com, where you can sign a pledge to never text and drive. I’d go there and sign the pledge, but I don’t need to. I have my mother instead. And my girlfriend. Together, they converted me (through strategic harping) to a “no texting while driving” policy.
I like exercises that work many body parts at once. They teach muscle activation patterning that is valuable to proper technique and safety when exercising.
I’m going to institute an annual Emily Litella Award for Human Matters reader-mail.
Little loved by neighbors and oft-maligned by community leaders, the long abandoned Buena Vista Springs apartment complex ducked the wrecking ball for the better part of a decade.
Opportunity Village is further aiding its 1,800 intellectually disabled clients with a new training center off Craig Road.
Everybody I know is dreaming of cooler temperatures and speculating on where to find them without entirely leaving the Southwest.
Question: I’ve seen garlic at outdoor markets where the garlic is actually braided.
Alden Grant has achieved Eagle Scout status in the Boy Scouts of America.
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It is Friday afternoon and Jimmy Vasser, the former race-car driver, is waiting on a Cobb salad at the Canyon Gate Country Club grill. In the distance are tranquil lagoons, the No. 2 tee box and the house in which Vasser has sort of lived the past 16 years, because race-car people tend to crisscross the globe and so they are not home a lot.
Oscar Goodman and I sat down by the big UFO-ish windows in his downtown steakhouse, Oscar’s. There was a mystery afoot. He wasn’t drinking gin, and someone had placed a water bottle in front of him.
Meet Christine Toledo, who makes a living as a matchmaker. A matchmaker with a twist.
It may not be easy being green, but that’s not stopping legions of local businesses from trying to leave a smaller ecological footprint.
Lubertha Johnson Estates, one of the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority’s properties for low-income seniors, has problems. Over a year old, there are roof leaks and construction defect issues.
