The outcome of the three critical seats which decide which party controls the Nevada Senate won’t be decided until November, but early primary results Tuesday night showed that the Republican efforts to handpick primary candidates in two swing seats succeeded.
Longtime gaming industry executive Gavin Isaacs was named CEO of Scientific Games Corp. Tuesday. Isaacs most recently served as CEO of SHFL entertainment.
Journalists Simon Petrus Nilli and Sahat Simatupang are part of the budding media industry in Indonesia, and stopped in Las Vegas as part of a trip through the United States to study how different news organizations and outlets operate, cover corruption, and interact with public and private agencies.
Meager voter turnout totals for the primary election might have broken Clark County’s 2008 all-time low turnout record of 14.76 percent, but it was too soon to tell late Tuesday night because of an incomplete report from one polling site.
Sunday’s ambush killing of two Las Vegas police officers and a brave civilian was an act of unrestrained evil and viciousness that’s nearly impossible to comprehend.
State Sen. Mark Hutchison won the Republican primary for lieutenant governor Tuesday. But he could easily have lost.
The Group of Death. It sounds like something Stephen King might title a horror novel, although you can bet Jurgen Klinsmann wouldn’t mind a few of his soccer players owning psychic abilities to see what will happen on the pitch before their opponents.
The World Cup proved surprisingly popular in Las Vegas sports books four years ago, and the monthlong tournament, which gets underway Thursday in Brazil, is expected to generate even more interest this time around. I
The 10 contested judicial races on the primary ballot offered few surprises Tuesday, but one Family Court race took an interesting turn. Incomplete results showed former Family Court Judge Lisa Brown leading the Department T race. Las Vegas attorney Maria Maskall followed, narrowly ahead of incumbent Gayle Nathan, who was elected in 2010.
With the final round falling on Father’s Day, and especially because he has played second fiddle six times in the U.S. Open, Phil Mickelson will be the sentimental favorite of most fans and media this week.
The result of an out-of-competition drug test has wiped out a heavily anticipated Ultimate Fighting Championship bout between Chael Sonnen and Vitor Belfort.
Let’s not kid ourselves here. It doesn’t take Paul the Octopus to know what will happen during the World Cup. Soccer fans across the country will jam into pubs with stereotypical British names such as The Pig and Whistle or Ye Olde King’s Head to watch matches. Social media timelines will explode with World Cup hashtags and outdated vuvuzela references. And the haters will say there’s not enough scoring.
Las Vegas Review-Journal sports writers Adam Hill and David Schoen have been given $5,000 fantasy bankrolls to bet during the World Cup on either sides, totals or props. Below are their bets for today, with an explanation of their picks:
State Sen. Mark Hutchison won a hard-fought GOP primary against Sue Lowden on Tuesday to advance as the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in November.
Of the three Clark County School Board seats in the Tuesday primaries, only one race proved to be close. The top two nonpartisan candidates advancing to the general election in District G were at odds long before they filed for the office, which represents southeast Las Vegas and part of Henderson.
Republican Assemblyman Cresent Hardy won Tuesday’s hottest congressional primary, beating his tea party opponent Niger Innis by about 10 percentage points.
British comedian and actor Rik Mayall, one of a generation of performers that injected post-punk energy into his comedic routines, died in his London home on Monday. He was 56.
When discussing a trip to Lafayette, La., on his radio show, Matthew Stevens decided to do the unthinkable. He tried to be entertaining.
All three incumbent Clark County commissioners enjoyed wide leads over their opponents in the Democratic primary Tuesday, easily advancing to the general election.
Las Vegas Valley businesses have collected tens of thousands of dollars for the families of two police officers and a Wal-Mart shopper slain Sunday in a married couple’s shooting rampage.
Omar Quintanilla had three hits and drove in five runs to help the 51s to a 9-3 Pacific Coast League victory at Colorado Springs on Tuesday night.
Jerad Miller didn’t die on his own terms after all, the Review-Journal has learned. It was a Las Vegas police officer — not Amanda Miller, his wife — who fired the shot that ended the life of the 31-year-old cop killer, according to an official with knowledge of the case.
In one of the most ambitious attempts yet to thwart Alzheimer’s disease, a major study got underway Monday to see if an experimental drug can protect healthy seniors whose brains harbor silent signs that they’re at risk.
Las Vegas police are investigating a death at the MGM Grand. An MGM spokesman said the worker fell from the third floor of the conference center Tuesday.
Nevada’s bed-and-breakfast inns invite guests to explore unique locations such as ghost towns, historic communities, urban districts or rural serenity.
Some things have been frequent requests in Taste of the Town over the years, as availability has shifted from place to place and, in some cases, drifted in and out of the market. One of those is Canfield’s Diet Chocolate Fudge Soda, most recently sought by Terry Marrone. Ellene Hohmann and Scott Kagan both said it’s still available at the Smith’s store at 2211 N. Rampart Blvd., Hohmann adding that it’s in the kosher section. …
