I almost needed that obituary I wrote for myself. Writing about it before I left on vacation was clearly tempting fate.
A Utah state senator has invoked the legacy of his Mormon prophet grandfather in a video in which he describes almost overdosing on prescription opiates and vows to reintroduce a medical marijuana bill that was narrowly defeated this year.
Facebook Inc said it started testing its mobile calling app ‘Hello’ on Android, which allows users to connect with Facebook to see the identity and information about callers even if the number is not saved on the phone.
At some point in the near future, Vashti Cunningham and her dad are going to have the talk. It’s the one most two-sport athletes have with a parent when it’s time to decide their athletic future.
The improvements in vehicle safety over the past several decades are astounding, a huge factor in why traffic deaths have fallen by roughly 40 percent since the 1970s. But safer vehicles are only one part of the quest to eliminate traffic fatalities — even the safest vehicle becomes a deadly weapon when the driver operating it is distracted or driving drunk.
Keeping free speech truly free requires protections beyond the First Amendment. The Bill of Rights prevents governments from restricting expression; it does nothing to stop private parties from dragging you into court if you criticize them, much less slander or defame them.
Northwest-area native Chelsea Rae Bernier has led an eventful life. She’s danced on the television show “The Mindy Project,” performed with Las Vegas entertainer Tony Sacca and recently played the iconic Mattel doll Barbie in a musical.
It took this, the megafight of megafights, the one sure to shatter all sorts of financial records at the gate and on your pay-per-view screens, the supposed biggest night in the sport’s history, to confirm what we already knew: It’s not about the fans.
He still gets up at 5:30 a.m., only now there’s not much to do. It’ll probably take a couple more weeks to remove all the stuff from his office, because one accumulates a lot of office stuff over 35 years as coach.
The tickets for the May 2 megafight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao will go on sale Thursday after Top Rank signed off on the contract Wednesday with the MGM Grand. A limited number of tickets — reportedly 500, from $1,500 to $7,500 — will go on sale.
Guy Bertuzzi’s new monthly magazine, Elevate, covers cannabis and marijuana as medicine, not as an enjoyable vice. The first cover story is about local chef Kerry Simon’s use of the drug to fight multiple system atrophy, a degenerative disease.
Answers to Sudoku and crossword puzzles from April 23, 2015, View editions.
Vashti Cunningham, the daughter of former UNLV and NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham, broke the national high school record in the girls high jump Saturday at a meet in Southern California. And with the Olympics a little more than a year away, that jump instantly made the junior at Bishop Gorman a legitimate candidate to make the U.S. team.
Pitching to keep alive his team’s hopes of a league title Wednesday, A.J. Landis insisted he felt no pressure.
Striped bass have been providing plenty of action at Lake Mead. Various swimbaits of 3 to 12 inches are working, as are live shad. Most catches range from 3 to 5 pounds. Stripers can be found in water from 10 to 25 feet deep near coves where they are targeting shad.
Marty Heavey had 21 kills, and Rodney Quito added 12 kills and 19 digs Wednesday as the Vikings rallied for a 28-30, 19-25, 25-18, 25-9, 15-10 home victory over Liberty.
Kensen Lee had drawn a tag for the last of three weeklong seasons to take place in the Moapa Valley area. While that was the place Lee was looking forward to hunting for a turkey, he was concerned that pressure associated with the first and second seasons could make his third-season experience less than he had hoped for.
An environmental activist on Wednesday gave up less than halfway through his attempt to swim the length of a notoriously polluted New York City canal, but not before comparing it to “swimming into a dirty diaper.”
Sarah Pinkston is still pacing herself as she returns from back surgery and cannot be relied on just yet to pitch every single game for Coronado’s softball team.
Bryce Henricksen’s double with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning Wednesday lifted host Arbor View’s softball team to a 6-5 win over Desert Oasis.
Brady Williams won two individual events Wednesday to help Green Valley’s boys track team win a three-team meet at Silverado.
A.J. Landis tossed a three-hitter and didn’t allow a runner to reach third base until the seventh inning as he led Desert Oasis to a 7-0 baseball win at Arbor View. The Diamondbacks moved one-half game ahead of the Aggies entering the final week of the league season.
Grace Martin and Alexis Gourrier each won two individual events Wednesday to help Centennial’s girls track team to a 111.17-44.83 win over host Palo Verde.
Palo Verde’s boys volleyball team is tied for first place with Legacy, the defending state champion, with two league games remaining and is one of several teams in play to make a deep playoff run. The Panthers lost five of last year’s starters to graduation
Utah State ended UNLV’s run of 14 straight opening-round wins in the Mountain West women’s tennis championships, edging the Lady Rebels 4-3 on Wednesday in Albuquerque, N.M.
UNLV senior Dana Finkelstein was named the Mountain West women’s golfer of the year for the third straight season. Finkelstein, whose scoring average of 71.5 this season is the lowest in program history, posted two wins and six top-five finishes.
Local prosecutors and FBI agents raided city government offices in Beaumont, California, and the premises of a management consulting firm that has worked with the city on Wednesday as part of an investigation that authorities declined to describe.
Leaders in the Los Angeles beach district of Venice have asked that women be allowed to sunbathe nude on the beach, saying they want equality and a more European feel at the popular tourist destination, local media reported on Wednesday.
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