The Seattle City Council’s unanimous decision last week to raise the minimum wage within the municipality to $15 an hour was met with raucous cheers by Democrats and labor activists. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray called it a “historic moment.“ Kshama Sawant, a socialist member of the council, said the move, which gives the city the highest minimum wage in the nation, would “turn the tide against corporate politics.”
Sheriff Doug Gillespie said Sunday’s killing of two Las Vegas police officers in the line of duty made it an “unprecedented day” for his department. Metro had never before seen two of its officers killed in a single incident. Officers Alyn Beck, 41, and Igor Soldo, 31 were fatally shot while they ate lunch at a CiCi’s Pizza, 309 N. Nellis Boulevard, at about 11:20 a.m. Sunday. The shooters also killed a woman in a nearby Wal-Mart before committing suicide.
The last person Las Vegas wanted to see at the plate with two outs in the ninth inning Sunday was Juan Ciriaco.
I recently received an email from Sig Rogich regarding the NFL Draft. Sig has abundant communication skills and has been known to help make kings, so I figured he might have something interesting to say about football, too.
Ted Mamola is a former professional golfer from Southern California who always had the urge to open a bar. So, after Mamola opened Embers Grille in the Boca Park shopping center in September 2011, he opened a new gaming and cocktail tavern called The Lion’s Tail Tavern in Village Square on Sahara Avenue in February.
Many of you know Laura Salcedo as the model for the exercises featured here in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Forty years ago, he predicted that he’d be long forgotten by now, considering the circumstances.
The murderous romp “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” has gotten a lot of love at the Tony Awards — it nabbed the best new musical trophy on a night that saw Audra McDonald, Bryan Cranston and Neil Patrick Harris all took home big awards.
A couple missed free throws cost the San Antonio Spurs last season’s NBA title.
Taxpayers are still helping prop up North Las Vegas’ Buena Vista Springs senior apartment complex, some five months after tenants called for a rent strike and nearly a month after politicians labeled the oft-maligned complex’s owner a “slumlord.”
A man went to the hospital with critical injuries Sunday morning after a crash in the central valley, Las Vegas police say.
A Michigan teenager who wanted to raise awareness about cerebral palsy by walking 40 miles with his younger brother strapped to his back battled heat, rain, fatigue and more to finish the trek Sunday.
Mellow sound rolls off a violin as the bow glides across the strings. Pride radiates from a trumpet in staccato bursts. Notes decrease in volume until a final chord resolves. These and other signs of musical excellence are the qualities that the Grammy Foundation looks for when deciding the winners of the Grammy Signature Schools Program.
Michael Mack, owner of Las Vegas’ Max Pawn, grew up in California and loved the ocean and boogie boarding. Usually, it was good, clean fun. But 11 years ago Mack made an uncharacteristic decision that caused him some serious pain.
It can be against Antonio Margarito or Yuri Foreman or Shane Mosley. Cotto always seems to take his boxing to a higher level when he fights in New York.
Gaming expansion in Maryland is expected to challenge Penn National’s casino development in Charles Town, West Virginia.
There are articles of clothing that no matter how tattered, no matter how faded, no matter how unsuitable for one’s current dimensions, that simply can’t be discarded.
Joy: that’s what you sense in 15-year-old Michelle Rudzki as she skates at the Las Vegas Ice Center on West Flamingo Road.
Once a unifying cause for generations of American Jews, Israel is now bitterly dividing Jewish communities.
Had he not lied to the great Joe Louis and subsequently went to a friend’s house, it’s likely Richard Steele wouldn’t be who — or where — he is today.
Managers of Southern Nevada’s largest taxi group have posted a memorandum to employees, warning them of the consequences of going to work for mobile application rideshare companies.
Give John Bonaventura credit. Any bum can lose an election. It takes a special brand of public official to serve with such devastating distinction that he actually destroys the office he’s occupying.
Tuesday is primary election day in Nevada, and the big stories will be the GOP races for lieutenant governor and the 4th Congressional District.
Henderson is investigating Spencer Gifts to see if the amount of adult-themed merchandise that vibrates, lubricates, binds and titillates makes the location closer to being an adult novelty business than an all-ages retail location
The triple crowns people get most worked up about are in horse racing.
In a box-office battle that pitted young against old, female against male, modest drama against big-budget spectacle, the teenage romance “The Fault in Our Stars” easily bested the time-shifting Tom Cruise action film “Edge of Tomorrow.”
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