The United States Olympic Committee told U.S. sports federations that athletes and staff concerned for their health over the Zika virus should consider not going to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in August.
Nevada’s only sanctuary church has already protected one person living in the country illegally who was facing imminent deportation.
Since its creation by the Legislature five years ago, the Legislative Commission’s Sunset Subcommittee has recommended the ax for a number of outdated or inactive boards and commissions, finding that their missions were no longer relevant or could be delegated to other agencies.
The Las Vegas Valley’s housing market started 2016 on strong footing. The median local price of an existing single-family home rose to $219,000 in January, up 9.5 percent from $200,000 a year earlier, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Monday.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, after chastising his Republican colleagues for doing nothing to help the “poisoned” children of Flint, Michigan, again turned to Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and a major environmental issue at home.
With the list of worthy and intriguing potential challengers in front of Stephen Thompson in the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s welterweight rankings, it was going to take a special performance Saturday night for him to make any sort of legitimate claim for a title shot.
It didn’t pay to back Cam Newton in Super Bowl 50 on Sunday. Certainly not by those who were pulling for the Denver Broncos. And not those who run Las Vegas’ sports books.
In the end, and there is no doubt this should be the end of the road for Peyton Manning, one of the NFL’s all-time greatest quarterbacks rode shotgun. Manning was simply an old-timer who went along for the ride.