On Thursday, labor-backed walkouts targeted fast-food outlets in Las Vegas and more than a dozen other major American cities from coast to coast. Workers are demanding a more than 100 percent increase in the minimum wage, to $15 an hour.
In looking back at Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie’s nearly seven years in office, perhaps the biggest surprise is that he ever wanted a third term in the first place.
UNLV looked like a spread team during training camp, and they looked like one during Thursday’s 51-23 loss at Minnesota, often going with three- and four-receiver sets.
The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association has canceled all state-sanctioned outdoor athletic activities in six Northern Nevada counties for this weekend.
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■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Matt Fox (8-4); Sky Sox, Sean Gallagher (2-3)
I am old enough to recall when statistical data was bare bones in the Daily Racing Form. Old-school handicappers, who kept their own records, had a big edge over those who relied solely upon past performances.
Justin Hughes and Jared Repp scored second-half touchdowns, and Moapa Valley’s defense bottled up Cheyenne as the visiting Pirates grinded out a 19-0 victory on Thursday in the season opener for both teams.
The Review-Journal’s Leadership Excellence Achievement Program Class of 2013 presented 350 backpacks filled with school supplies to the students of Williams Elementary School in Las Vegas.
The mother of a 14-year-old girl who was raped by her teacher and later committed suicide appeared at a raucous Thursday protest against the judge who sentenced the man to a month in jail and said the victim was “older than her chronological age.”
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It all began with that bell, tolling in a thunderstorm somewhere, definitely at night, its ominous, foreboding clang suggestive of rain-slicked tombstones, black masses beneath moonless skies and a bunch of gargoyles doing gargoyle stuff.
A Las Vegas police officer is in serious condition after a collision Wednesday afternoon.
Japanese director Sion Sono wants to set the records straight: It was Bruce Lee and not Quentin Tarantino who transformed the yellow jumpsuit into a piece of film iconography.
Maggie Edinger, 26, is in a cozy relationship. It’s predictable and relaxing. She’s in that phase, she said, “where you start wearing sweatpants and completing each other’s sentences.” And that’s just her relationship with “Law & Order,” plus spin-offs. She remains on the hunt for an actual boyfriend.
The state Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee on Thursday approved more than $3 million to renovate Stein Hospital, a closed mental hospital on Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital’s campus. Officials will expedite the project, which is expected to be completed in summer 2015.
Fast-food protests are underway in cities including Las Vegas, New York, Chicago and Detroit, with organizers expecting the biggest national walkouts yet in a demand for higher wages.
Union officials announced that members voted Wednesday night to approve the negotiated terms, leaving just the Clark County School Board to do the same at a Sept. 12 meeting.
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