Blue is the new black. It is also the national color for colorectal cancer education. Who better to talk about the cancer than Carmen Marc Valvo. He is one of the nation’s top designers. And he also has had the disease.
Linn Mills, a leader in the Southern Nevada horticultural community and a longtime Review-Journal columnist, died Friday morning, following surgery a day earlier for a broken hip. He was 76.
I felt like I was watching Bill Murray resurrect his funny “SNL” character, Nick the lounge singer, on Thursday when he helped raise $544,000 to fight the illness that put his dear friend, Vegas chef Kerry Simon, in a wheelchair.
A jury on Friday found nursing aide Steven Farmer guilty of almost all charges against him, including the sexual assaults of two former patients at Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center. Sentencing is scheduled for May 28.
Grace Presbyterian Church will present a Hymn Festival at 5 p.m. Sunday at the church’s Central Campus Sanctuary, 1515 W. Charleston Blvd. The festival will feature brass, timpani, organ and a mass choir from local congregations. A freewill offering will be taken (702-384-4554).
Who says Major League Baseball managers don’t teach? In Baltimore, Buck Showalter doesn’t just teach. He doles out homework.
RENO — As good as Bishop Gorman big men Chase Jeter and Stephen Zimmerman are, it seems like they don’t always play at their best at the same time.
RENO — Liberty’s girls basketball team had a significant height advantage over most of its opponents this season.
RENO — Clark coach Chad Beeten called a timeout early in the second half Friday, looking for a spark.
RENO — Whitney Barlow wasn’t much of a factor in the first half of Friday’s Division I-A girls basketball state semifinal.
RENO — Agassi Prep boys basketball coach Trevor Diggs knows his team has been toughened by numerous close games this season. So when Battle Mountain made a run at the Stars on Friday, Diggs wasn’t worried.
RENO — The stats will show that Lincoln County’s girls basketball team gave up two second-half runs, and that proved to be the difference in its 50-42 loss to Incline in the semifinals of the Division III state tournament.
RENO — Bailee Hosier hit a state tournament record eight 3-pointers and finished with 33 points Friday to help Pahranagat Valley’s girls basketball team to a 78-46 win over Pyramid Lake in a Division IV state semifinal at Wooster High School.
Nevada is no stranger to multibillion-dollar, private-sector construction projects that, once finished, employ thousands of people.