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WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans and Democrats hit an impasse Sunday over spending in their last-ditch struggle to avoid an economy-jarring default in four days and end a partial government shutdown that is entering its third week.
An Advantage Capital lobbyist who campaigned for a bill that became a state tax credit law has been accused of “misleading” Nevada legislators on the profitability of similar laws in Missouri and Florida.
Federal banking regulators have terminated a consent order issued in September 2010 for First Security Bank of Nevada. At the time, the Las Vegas bank was recovering from losses on real estate loans that collapsed when the recession took hold.
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In “Contagious: Why Things Catch On,” Jonah Berger writes that “people tend to ignore the importance of offline word of mouth … ” and cites research maintaining “only 7 percent of word-of-mouth happens online.”
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Longtime Las Vegans probably remember the classic local TV commercials featuring Fletcher Jones hawking Chevrolets while holding up a cuddly dog or cat.
Inside Brain Balance Center of Henderson, children with learning challenges are helped without the use of drugs.
“Wow!” That’s what singer-dancer Kirby Ward exclaimed as he and his lovely counterpart Joan Hess broke a stage kiss and approached the end of their evening with the Las Vegas Philharmonic Pops Orchestra and guest conductor Stuart Chafetz.
As audience members, Cockroach Theatre invites us to join them in celebration of their “Tenth Anniversary Season of Plays” by donning the party hats given to us in goody bags upon entrance to the theatre. It’s also playwright Harold Pinter’s birthday, and we are here to watch his absurdist black comedy “The Birthday Party.”
Nevada voters pooh-poohed the idea of a Court of Appeals three times, but advocates have high hopes a fourth try in 2014 will succeed with a boost from a $400,000 campaign.
A game up for grabs came down to an unlikely play. A perfectly thrown ball into the back of the end zone, a great catch and a comeback win. Drew Brees had pulled a rabbit out of his helmet and beat the New England Patriots again.
Attending public meetings isn’t the most entertaining way to spend an evening. In fact, it’s often a great cure for insomnia. But when a meeting addresses an issue vital to the future of economic development in Southern Nevada, the importance ratchets up a few notches — and particularly in the midst of a still-sluggish recovery and poor employment numbers.
We adopt a few different postures throughout the day. In a perfect world, those postures would be conducive and transferable to the functional movements the day requires. Sadly, the path of least resistance often wins and posture is the first thing to suffer.
When I met Christine Wunderlin three years ago, her left arm had swelled to about twice the size of her right.
Nevadans who use the services of a homeopath, funeral home, marriage therapist or private investigator might engage these professionals with the assumption that their conduct is scrutinized by state officials looking out for their welfare.
After 20 years, it’s possible for the details of a relationship to get fuzzy. Just ask David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, who first premiered their roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully on “The X-Files” two decades ago.
Gunmen abducted six Red Cross workers and a Syrian Red Crescent volunteer after stopping their convoy early Sunday in northwestern Syria, a spokesman said, in the latest high-profile kidnapping in the country’s civil war.
Mass evacuations spared India the widespread deaths many had feared from a cyclone that roared ashore over the weekend, officials said Sunday, as the country sorted through the wreckage of flooded towns, tangled power lines and tens of thousands of destroyed thatch homes.
When professional boxer Sharif Bogere aggravated a nagging Achilles injury during a fight in March, it seemed as though recovery would sideline his career indefinitely.
By now you’ve probably heard about the folks who were kicked out of their vacation homes at Lake Mead because of the government shutdown.
For the second straight year, millions of Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and federal retirees can expect historically small increases in their benefits come January.
A woman was arrested on murder charges Saturday morning.
The Kansas City Chiefs broke the world record for an outdoor sports stadium in their 24-7 win over Oakland on Sunday when they reached 137.5 decibels in the closing minutes.
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