School choice is rightfully touted as a way to improve student achievement and campus accountability through competition. But school choice is a solution for another problem in our schools: bullying.
In an era of Bluetooth technology and smart phones, an evening of operas centered on the old-fashioned telephone might seem as quaint as if the singers were riding about the stage in horse and buggy. Yet, Sin City Opera’s production of “The Telephone” by Gian Carlo Menotti and “The Human Voice” by Francis Poulenc are oddly resonant with modern technology, seeming to comment upon both obsessive texting and dropped cell calls. Can you hear me now?
Two years ago, Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary penned a Wall Street Journal piece, “How to Stop Hospitals from Killing Us,” which contained a paragraph that was at once sickening and a call to action.
As a quarterback, Johnny Manziel is a playmaker and risk taker, the definition of a gambler. Sometimes that’s a problem. But even the cynics can see his entertainment value is a sure thing.
Members of Congress took steps last week to reduce the $1.4 billion that the Pentagon wants to strip from the nation’s military commissaries to save money, and active duty personnel and military retirees who buy groceries at the Nellis Air Force Base commissary share their point of view: The government must fulfill the promise it made when they signed up to serve the nation in time of need.
As Las Vegans, we know that when the temperature outside gets warm it is time to spray for bugs. Those creepy crawlers will stop at nothing to get inside a nice home and set up camp.
It’s been awhile since McCarran International Airport has welcomed a new overseas air carrier to town so expect the smiles to be a little broader when Edelweiss Air’s first flight touches down and passes through a celebratory water arch early Monday afternoon.
The year-long program drug court program serves about 140 youth in the Clark County Department of Juvenile Justice Services at any given time. However, officials received notice in April that the federal grant that helps fund the program will no longer exist beginning July 1.
The 9-year-old college, tucked into an office park on Sunset Road, espouses having students taught by those employed in their respective fields.
Almost half the students attending public schools are minorities, yet fewer than 1 in 5 of their teachers is nonwhite, according to new studies that cite a “diversity gap” at elementary and secondary schools in the United States.
Republican congressional hopeful Niger Innis last week faced friendly fire from a one-time supporter during a debate with his GOP primary opponent, Assemblyman Cresent Hardy, R-Mesquite, and she suffered the consequences.
A man was hit by a car Sunday evening on the southeast side of the Las Vegas Valley, police said.
A bungled execution in Oklahoma outraged death-penalty opponents, invited court challenges and attracted worldwide attention. But the inmate’s agony alone is highly unlikely to change minds about capital punishment in the nation’s most active death-penalty states
Like the cannons she’ll be firing in field artillery training this summer, UNLV student Camille Castro has her sights set high for being among the first women to integrate the officer ranks of an Army combat arms unit.
As Afghans observed a day of mourning Sunday for the hundreds of people killed in a horrific landslide, authorities tried to help the 700 families displaced by the torrent of mud that swept through their village.
Witnesses and police say a loud bang at the MGM Grand Garden Arena preceded a dangerous stampede that left dozens of people injured at Saturday night’s boxing match.
Henderson residents at the Heritage Day Parade on April 26 probably had a few moments of deja vu — the city’s Police Department reintroduced the dormant black-and-yellow bicycle unit.
Jordan Coppert may be only a junior at Faith Lutheran High School, but he’s already impacting the lives of others. A member of the school’s football team, Coppert said he wanted students on financial aid to experience school sports. Inspired by a student he met from India, he decided to supply athletic equipment to those in need at Faith, 2015 S. Hualapai Way.
Big shoes to fill, that Frank Sinatra. But Bob Anderson has been sizing them up for, oh, 40 years or so now.
Free Comic Book Day brought about charity work in addition to its promise of free giveaways.
The twin sisters were reunited last week for the first time since birth in Fullerton, California, thanks to a nudge from their children and help from a psychology professor, the Orange County Register reported Sunday.
The former 140-pound world champion goes to 147 and easily defeats Luis Collazo while Adrien Broner goes from 147 to 140 and also wins easily on the undercard of Mayweather-Maidana at MGM Grand Garden.
President Barack Obama poked fun at himself and what he called a hard year at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. “In 2008 my slogan was, ‘Yes we can.’ In 2013, it was control-alt-delete,” Obama joked.
Santa Barbara thought build a $34 million desalination plant two decades ago when California withered in a severe drought. The plant was fired up for only three months and mothballed after a miracle soaking of rain. Now the plant is getting attention again.
A few things we learned from Mastodon’s fierce, fantastic showing with Gojira and Kvelertak at the House of Blues on Saturday.
A year ago, the stunning story of three women who escaped their captor after nearly a decade unfolded in an Ohio neighborhood. But there are others still missing from those same streets.
As two state troopers struggled to arrest his father, a 19-year-old man armed himself with an assault rifle and shot them seven times, killing them outside his home in a remote Alaska village, authorities said in charges filed Saturday.
The Junior Roller Girls are Las Vegas’ first roller derby team for young women and was created just two years ago. These girls might be rough and tough, yet they were not always this skilled.
“The Amazing Spider-Man 2” debuted with $92 million in North American theaters over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. It was a solid opening for Sony’s Columbia Pictures, which has released five movies about Marvel’s web-slinging superhero in the last 14 years.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
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Why is Mesquite growing so fast?