A dozen rescuers armed with chain saws and other tools chipped away at tons of ice and snow Sunday to the recover the body of a 25-year-old snowboarder killed when an ice tunnel collapsed on Oregon’s Mount Hood.
Of all the basketball shots taken at the Palms’ Hardwood Suites, who would have bet the most unbelievable feat would come from a member of world’s hottest boy band? One Direction’s Niall Horan, 19, has a video to prove it to his nearly 13 million Twitter followers (@niallofficial).
Kimberley McGee is no expert on Carpenter Canyon, but she knows plenty about her great grandparents, the Mormon pioneers who would become the canyon’s namesake.
Give Nevada Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett credit for candor.
The Universal film starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg pulled the trigger to capture the top spot with $27.4 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Time is running out for area bar owners and managers to have their establishments included in the 2013 edition of the R-J’s annual directory of NFL bars.
Police arrested a man on suspicion of murder after a driver plowed into crowds at the Venice Beach boardwalk, a seemingly intentional hit-and-run that killed an Italian woman on her honeymoon and injured 11 others.
Liberty baseball coach Mike Eshragh sent his players onto the field Saturday intending to prove that his squad’s 2012 summer championship was no fluke.
When it comes to a certain classification of business loans, Debra Alexandre has the market cornered.
If we don’t skip it, many of us are in just underwear when we eat it, often incapable of much more than grunts and groans, with breath that not even a mother can love.
A whole lot of the stuff in this world doesn’t make sense.
Here are a few items in pop culture that caught our eye last week.
Andrew Baca looks at the world today and frets over what he sees.
Decades ago, when Smokey Bear became an icon, his mantra was, “Only you can prevent forest fires.” The warning has since evolved into, “Only you can prevent wildfires.”
With its neon and its excesses and its fast lanes and its 99-cent shrimp cocktails, Las Vegas doesn’t seem a town for offensive linemen. Las Vegas seems more a town for flashy quarterbacks, or speedy wide receivers. When was the last time you heard of an O-lineman making it rain?
There’s a moment — a millisecond, really — when you’re suspended in the air, only a half-inch wire between life and possible death. In that sliver of time, fear bubbles up from your belly. It’s your instinct trying to warn you that danger lies ahead.
Last week, the best-laid plans of Gov. Brian Sandoval were interrupted — just slightly — with the announcement that former state Sen. Sue Lowden was thinking of entering the race for lieutenant governor.
It’s taken Tilman Fertitta just a few years to build his casino company.
Democracy requires good reporters who can resist presidential spin; digest complicated legislation like ObamaCare and raise the caution flag when necessary; relentlessly dig until they reach the truth about events like the murder of our ambassador in Benghazi; and, of course, cut through the fog of fallen politicians looking for a comeback — politicians like Anthony Weiner.
THE HOT CORNER [Mal VAN VALKENBURG review-journal, 66-58-5 (overall)]
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: Redbirds, Sam Freeman (7-2); 51s, Sean Henn (2-5)
Re-engineering is a popular buzzword. Corporations use it to describe changes they are making. Basically, it means reassessing what you can to capitalize on what you have. This also holds true for re-establishing landscapes.
Accountability has long been a problem for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, especially when it comes to officers who shoot people. Year after year, the public saw officers who made obviously terrible decisions, resulting from inexcusable mistakes, keep their jobs despite injuring or killing civilians. Too often, the review process was a joke, a pointless exercise in rubber-stamping.
Football players? Sonny, the football players we knew could run circles around those wimps who play today and then chew ’em up and spit ’em out before they even crossed the finish line.
With full knowledge aforethought I’m about to reveal … well, that’s just the thing: I don’t know what I might reveal. I just decided to take the risk. To start typing and see what happens.