Two teachers last at Lied Middle School have been arrested on sex-related charges against minors since the start of the 2013-14 school year. “It makes me want to take my kids out of the school,” parent Vanessa Orozco said.
Poor Pat Hickey: He’s on the chopping block for telling the truth.
Female impersonator Frank Marino is taking his long-running diva act on the road.
Las Vegas-based Smart City Networks has filed a lawsuit against the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority to halt awarding the Las Vegas Convention Center contract to rival Cox Communications.
Members of motorcycle clubs and gangs will have to keep their colors under wrap at the 19th annual Street Vibrations biker festival running through the weekend in Reno and Sparks.
Jocquez Kalili has rushed for 500 yards on 24 carries in leading the Diamondbacks to a 2-0 start, and he’ll try to keep things going when Desert Oasis travels to third-ranked Canyon Springs (3-0) at 7 tonight.
DeMichael Walker scored on a 1-yard run late in the third quarter, and Legacy forced two turnovers to upset host Arbor View 7-0 on Thursday night.
After a decade of maintaining his departure was imminent, 79-year-old baseball commissioner Bud Selig put his exit plans in writing Thursday and said in a statement he will retire in January 2015 after 22 years — the second-longest term behind Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
If you go clubbin’ for lovin’ this weekend, try the following pickup line. Years ago, Spy magazine instructed interns to test various celebrity pickup lines. The most successful line was this one, supposedly used by Arnold Schwarzenegger:
The biggest badass DJ on the Las Vegas Strip probably isn’t some tall guy, like Afrojack, but rather a concise Dutch DJ who won four gold medals and a silver at this year’s kung fu world championships in China.
Crimson Tide QB A.J. McCarron and his model sidekick, Katherine Webb, have split. Sources confirmed it in a New York Daily News story. I’m not into celebrity relationship gossip, but this is an interesting development and maybe a handicapping angle.
Free ice cream! The annual Sunny 106.5 Ice Cream Sunday is from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at the Providence community’s Promenade linear park, 7195 Egan Crest Way. The event will include ice-cream-eating contests, a petting zoo, bounce houses and more. …
People complain to me all the time about how bad restaurant service can be in Las Vegas. Those people haven’t been to Gina’s Bistro.
“Here’s Agnes!” That’s the Carol Burnett show TV viewers would have seen if it had been up to network suits.
On Thursday, Water Authority board members received virtually no opposition as they voted unanimously to raise rates starting in January to pay down two decades of construction debt totalling more than $3 billion.
R&B throwback Bruno Mars opens The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Dec. 29 and 31, with shows also scheduled for Feb. 15 and 16, May 23 and 24 and Aug. 22 and 23. Tickets for Dec. 29 and 31 start at $150 and tickets for the 2014 shows start at $95. They go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com or Ticketmaster outlets.
Their latest album is titled “Freak Out!” and the exclamation point is telling: Teenage Bottlerocket’s tunes are better when bellowed.
Nothing says “Happy Birthday” quite like Kid Rock rhyming “answers” with “topless dancers.”
A standup comedian faces assault charges after a physical altercation with a journalist in the audience that was documented on Twitter.
I’m not sure how to feel about this: There is so much going on in “X Rocks,” I would forget from time to time that I was looking at topless women.
What did we like about Whitney Cummings in the first place? Oh, yeah. Stand-up!
Observers on both sides of “The Homeowner’s Bill of Rights” agree it’ll throw another kink into Nevada’s moribund foreclosure segment. The question is what’s more important: Protecting homeowners who are behind on payments or promoting speedy recovery of the state’s housing market?
The Southern Nevada Water Authority board has signed off a new tunneling project at Lake Mead that officials describe as an emergency meant to avoid an emergency.
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Fontainebleau signs ‘once in a generation talent’ to residency deal
Southwest Vegas food hall closing only a year after opening
‘Top Chef’ stars to close Las Vegas Strip pop-up restaurant
Las Vegas ranks among most expensive places in the US to visit: study
Wynn’s plans to build a third tower on Strip still alive