Bishop Gene Robinson announced the end of his marriage to Mark Andrew in an email sent to the Diocese of New Hampshire, where he served for nine years before retiring in 2012.
In one reality, the Bureau of Land Management is a group of American citizens working to preserve and protect commonly held land for all Americans. In the other, they are agents of an occupying foreign power, bent on destroying ranching operations so we all have to eat kale salad for dinner, just as first lady Michelle Obama intended.
A 39-year-old woman was struck and killed by a SUV while she was attempting to cross the street in Henderson Saturday evening. The pedestrian had tried to cross Lake Mead Parkway at Taylor Street, about 9:15 p.m., when she was hit by a Ford Expedition, according to Henderson police.
A new era in how we handle The End has begun. Figures from the Cremation Association of North America show a 9 percent leap in people choosing that option from 2007 to 2012. The group estimates that by 2016 a majority of Americans — 55 percent — will select cremation over traditional burial.
The 17-year-old Minnesota boy outlined his plan in a 180-page journal: kill his family, set a fire to divert first responders, then go to his school with bombs and guns and “kill as many students as he could,” according to court documents.
Visitors will learn to walk and locals will have to make a paradigm shift, but no “traffic and parking nightmare” is envisioned for the MGM arena that’s now under construction in Las Vegas.
Somehow, “What happens in Crimea, stays in Crimea,” doesn’t seem like an appropriate catchphrase. In April, a month after Russia forcibly annexed the Black Sea peninsula away from Ukraine, President Valdimir Putin said he wants to turn the territory into his own version of Las Vegas.
Wynn told Bloomberg News that Clooney took some liberties when he claimed Wynn called President Barack Obama a nasty name during a dinner-gone-bad last month.
Two men appeared on the national stage in April in the form of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and Los Angeles Clippers basketball team owner Donald Sterling. Both made racially insensitive statements.
A sales tax increase to boost police funding across Southern Nevada is in limbo, not likely to resurface again this year, but not officially dead until July 1, 2016, the statutory deadline for the Clark County Commission to boost the rate by up to 0.15 percentage points.
Trying to increase city revenues at the expense of public safety isn’t a good trade-off for taxpayers. But that’s exactly what’s happening as a result of the Las Vegas Fire Department’s heavy-handed suppression of patient transports by private-sector ambulance company American Medical Response.
Kathy Duva is suing several individuals and companies, including manager Al Haymon, Showtime and Golden Boy Promotions for interfering in a planned showdown between light heavyweights Sertgey Kovalev and Adonis Stevenson.
Oscar De La Hoya strikes me as a man who doesn’t buy the idea that recognizing power in another doesn’t diminish his own.
Bruised, somewhat battered, but still standing and still unbeaten.
After going through injuries and doubts about whether he event wants to continue to compete, James Stewart has responded with a strong Supercross season.
Cori Molisee, Montana Lloyd and Mandy Gebhart each won two individual events Saturday at Heritage Park to help Boulder City’s girls swimming team to a 157-141 win over Silverado.
The shortcomings of 31-year-old Cashman Field are no mystery to the new owners of the Las Vegas 51s — the Pacific Coast League Triple A team of the New York Mets. Gridlock in the concession area and cramped metal benches are just two of the issues.
Rachel Williams went 4-for-4 and combined with Kelsea Sweeney on a six-inning four-hitter on Saturday to lead Palo Verde’s softball team to a 10-0 home win over Canyon View (Utah).
Not many pitchers in Southern Nevada can be relied on as much as Faith Lutheran’s Brandon Johnson.
This is what most people know about the sport of international cliff diving:
Not many pitchers in Southern Nevada can be relied on like Faith Lutheran’s Brandon Johnson.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted last week to continue allowing lawmakers to lease personal cars with taxpayer money if they choose.
The Turkish judicial contingent was a respectful group, but try as they might members of the delegation couldn’t remove the looks of surprise from their faces.
Editor’s note: Nevada 150 is a yearlong series highlighting the people, places and things that make up the history of the state.
Six years after being hired at the Adelson Educational Campus, the fourth-grade teacher’s students excel on standardized tests, she’s one of Adelson’s curriculum coordinators and she’s now being named Clark County Educator of the Month for March.
