Early-season softball games often are about players working out kinks and reacquiring their timing at the plate.
The screeners of the Transportation Security Administration are masters of inefficiency, inconvenience and humiliation. Only a small number of airline passengers — a microscopic percentage of the flying public — could be considered a partial match with a terrorist’s profile, yet all travelers are subjected to an intrusive cattle call before being allowed to proceed to their gates. Nursing mothers, the elderly and small children are routinely pulled aside for additional scrutiny. It’s a costly kabuki, designed to make people feel safe in a post-9/11 world, not actually make them safer.
Nevada needs jobs. Increasing taxes on job creators will not put people back to work. It will discourage job creation and, without question, cost untold numbers of workers their jobs when struggling companies are forced to close their doors.
Alexander Marco walked with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the seventh to force home Niko Decolati and give Cimarron-Memorial’s baseball team a 5-4 home win over Faith Lutheran on Tuesday.
Alexa Snyder tossed a five-inning five-hitter and struck out nine on Tuesday to lead Cimarron-Memorial’s softball team to a 13-2 win over visiting Faith Lutheran.
Las Rocas is the dominant winery in the very small, but highly regarded appellation of Calatayud.
Last week, readers had suggestions for sources for pretzel rolls for Kathy Boland. This week, they’ve found the ciabatta rolls that Boland also is seeking (and a few more pretzel rolls).
The Blind Pig Provisions & Lounge, from Block 16 Hospitality, opened last month just outside the Panorama Towers
Las Vegas High’s Chris Kampshoff had 20 kills and eight digs on Tuesday, and T.J. Esporas added 14 kills, 10 digs and four blocks to help the host Wildcats outlast defending state champion Coronado, 25-20, 25-19, 29-31, 17-25, 15-13.
Early-season softball games often are about players working out kinks and reacquiring their timing at the plate.
San Diego State play-by-play radio announcer Ted Leitner didn’t completely enjoy his visit to Las Vegas last week, and not just because the Aztecs lost to New Mexico in the Mountain West tournament final.
The Henderson City Council approved a series of big-ticket contracts Tuesday to build two more parks in the city.
Michael Alvarez shot 1-over-par 73 on Tuesday to lead Coronado’s boys golf team to victory in a Southeast League meet at Anthem.
I work with a food critic who gives me Vegas tips on restaurants. Like this one.
The 20th annual Glass Craft & Bead Expo is scheduled for March 26-30 at the South Point. Open to the public, the event offers classes and a trade show for the curious, featuring items such as handcrafted beads, stained glass, fused glass and studio items.
The driver who Nevada Highway Patrol says hit and killed a man on U.S. Highway 95 near the Summerlin Parkway exit Monday night faces charges in his death.
A Massachusetts mom risked her life earlier this month by diving under her car and acting as a human speed bump to save her kids from injury.
Nothing sparks consumer demand like the word “free,” and politicians in some states have proposed the idea of providing that incentive to get young people to attend community college.
Henderson will extend the hours of the city’s Development Services Center on Wednesday to answer questions and help homeowners with the permitting process.
The consensus among experts at the Nevada Literacy Summit at University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Invest early and make certain students have grade-level reading skills by the end of third grade.
An Internet vendor failed to deliver a PS3, so a U.K. man did what any reasonably frustrated person with a basic understanding of text messaging would have done: sent him the entire works of Shakespeare via text message.
The Las Vegas area is back on a national homeland security funding list, and should receive $1 million of more than $400 million the federal government is distributing this year. U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., called the funds “crucial.”
Betty’s great-grandson, Zach Belden, started an Instagram account in January to document Betty’s cancer battle. Three months later, @grandmabetty33 has nearly a quarter of a million followers and is one of the coolest grandmas around.
A Michigan teacher made a poor choice by giving non-alcoholic beer to a class of fifth graders in a history lesson, a school official said. Superintendent Ed Koledo said the teacher allowed Hyatt Elementary students in Linden to sample O’Doul’s that had been brought to school by a student March 6 to represent ale common in the 1700s.
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