Welcome, everyone, to the first installment of my blog. I think you’ll enjoy following our team this year. I can tell you that you are going to see a fearless football team that loves to play and is enjoying itself and wants to win games. We love our fan support.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful — as Mae West, a renowned playwright (among other things), once remarked. By those standards, Mae would have embraced Las Vegas’ 2014-15 theater season with gleeful gusto. From Tony-winning musicals to edgy theatrical experiences to world premieres, this season’s offerings reflect the Las Vegas theater community’s increasing maturity.
If you don’t recognize the name Georgia Neu, it’s only because you may not have been living here before 2001. Or, maybe you were but didn’t stay abreast of events.
Remember when the viability of the Affordable Care Act was said to be dependent in large part on states creating their own health insurance exchanges? The Nevada Legislature and Gov. Brian Sandoval did just that back in 2011. Good times.
It has already hit gun and ammunition dealers. It has shut down pawnshops and short-term lenders. It has caused banks to discharge potentially thousands from their customer rolls who’ve done nothing illegal or improper. The next casualty will be America’s casino and gaming industry.
The son of Lee Mazzilli — who had two key hits for the New York Mets in the 1986 World Series — L.J. Mazzilli delivered the decisive hit for the 51s in their 5-4 win over the Reno Aces in their Pacific Coast League playoff opener on Wednesday night before 4,083 at Cashman Field.
Bailey Bergquist racked up 23 kills and 21 digs Wednesday to help Sierra Vista’s girls volleyball team outlast visiting Centennial, 25-12, 23-25, 25-16, 23-25, 16-14.
Henderson calendar highlights include Las Vegas Jazz Society’s “Bossa, Jazz n’ Samba” and the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s Junior Master Gardener program.
Literary events this week include “Creativity & Madness: Channeling the Muse,” a poetry and music performance featuring Lee Mallory and Nate Segundo.
Malik didn’t do it. Janae knew that her son was innocent. He was just 15 years old, a good-enough student, her baby. She’d raised him right and Malik wasn’t capable of killing.
Taylor Kornieck had two goals and an assist Wednesday to lead Coronado’s girls soccer team to a 3-2 win over Palo Verde in the Las Vegas Kick-Off.
Last season Nathalia Luna picked up a tennis racket for the first time and was the only member of the Western girls tennis team. This year, she has reinforcements.
Jenna Wyson and Samantha Arteaga went 3-0 in doubles, including the clinching point in the third round on Wednesday to lead Silverado’s girls tennis team to a 10-8 home win over Cimarron-Memorial.
Great Basin National Park won out in a contest Wednesday to become the fourth and final medallion issued by Nevada in honor of its 150th birthday on Oct. 31.
A group campaigning for the Washington Redskins to change their name is sending a letter to broadcasters requesting that the name not be uttered on the public airwaves.
About 5,058 houses in the northwest valley were without power Thursday night, NV Energy reported.
Cash-strapped North Las Vegas is trying to avoid excluding lower-income youth from its new skate park as it seeks a way to foot the project bill. Charging a fee for Craig Ranch’s 65,000-square-foot skate park was a nonstarter for most council members at Wednesday’s meeting.
Hunter Pate earned medalist honors with a 2-over-par 74 at Aliante on Wednesday as Bishop Gorman’s girls won a Southwest League match.
Mountain Ridge Little League’s team was in attendance for the first game of the 51s’ best-of-five series with the Reno Aces.
Garrick Quackenbush’s goal off a corner kick just five minutes into the second half Wednesday broke a tie and allowed Cimarron-Memorial’s boys soccer team to defeat visiting Western, 2-1.
A professor at Idaho State University shot himself in the foot during class — not with words, but with a real gun.
A man is dead and a woman is in custody after an early Wednesday night shooting near Maryland Parkway and Charleston Boulevard, Las Vegas police said.
More than 100 personnel are searching Wednesday for an 8-year-old girl who is missing from her home in Bullhead City, Ariz. Police said the investigation of Isabella Grogan-Cannella’s disappearance is now considered a criminal matter.
Schoolwork remains the top priority for the Crusaders, but their scores get getting better.
