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I want you to meet a pair of very dedicated golfers. They love golf and participate monthly in organized golf events. They work on their games and can tell you how long they drive the ball. One shares how proud she is of her new driver; the other can tell stories of when he was third man on his college golf team. Both wear big smiles when on the course.
You’ll do anything and work hardest to make sure that you’re not finishing last. It’s all or nothing for you, and in the new book “Stealing the Game” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld, it’s about more than how you play the game.
Imagine what life was like a thousand years ago. As with Grandpa’s “good old days,” you wouldn’t want to go back there – and in “Off with Their Heads!” by Martin Oliver, illustrated by Andrew Pinder, you’ll find out why.
If you lived in the White House, you’d change those things your parents grumble about. And in the new book, “The White House for Kids,” you’ll see what it’s like to live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Like most kids, you love it when someone reads one of your favorite Christmas stories aloud. You probably enjoy singing Christmas carols, too. “The Family Christmas Treasury” will help you do both by including the words to some of those songs you love, along with several holiday story favorites.
Floyd Mayweather apparently has an aversion to tap water and jail grub. Or he’s never played golf during the summer in Las Vegas.
Question: How do I plant and care for tropical bird of paradise?
Question: We have small butterflies on our plum tree. There are hundreds of them. Are they pollinating our trees? The bees were here, but these have taken over.
It is that time of year again when resident rattlesnakes start appearing on our local hiking trails. They come out of hibernation to enjoy the 70- to 90-degree temperature range, just as many humans do.
Commercial real estate (CRE) sentiment is subdued, and deal activity has cooled, but Blake J. Owens sees an attractive turning point. The 30-year-old Las Vegas native, whose family has lived in the city for over a century, is capitalizing on this moment to transform CRE through his two companies: Agrippa and Augustus.
As of about 8 p.m., Ray Johnson of the U.S. Forest Service said residents who live in the area of the blaze had been evacuated and were not allowed to return to their homes.
Business owners say it’s been difficult to find customers as a busy stretch of Tropicana Avenue remained closed for several days after a major windstorm. The road reopened around 7 p.m. Saturday.
Las Vegas Fire & Rescue tracked emergency calls over a 10-hour period Friday into Saturday.
In a press release, officials said all three individuals were hospitalized — two of whom have since been released.
