Placing a loved one into a nursing home is an unbearably difficult decision for family members. That decision just got harder for Nevadans, in the wake of Tuesday’s report by the Review-Journal’s Paul Harasim and Yesenia Amaro: The state’s facilities rank among the worst in the nation overall (43rd), receiving a grade of F in a study conducted by Families for Better Care, a nationwide nursing home resident advocacy group.
The morning sun had yet to light up the red-orange sand that lines the shoreline when Roger and I motored away from the launch ramp at Southern Utah’s Sand Hollow Reservoir. We had found quick action for small but scrappy largemouth bass the previous afternoon and looked forward to picking up where we left off when the setting sun forced us off the water.
■ LAKE MEAD — The best time to spend on the water might be early morning before the sun comes up or late afternoon into the evening. Anglers have had success fishing for striper out of Vegas Wash area, jigging in 60 feet of water. Near Echo Bay, large and smallmouth bass have been active around the rocky points and in the weed beds at the backs of the coves.
Providing halftime analysis on a live broadcast is not always an easy task.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Matt Fox (6-4); Zephyrs, Brad Hand (3-5)
The beautiful people are back, and actor Danny DeVito dropped by the other night, too. Dodger Stadium always was a place to be seen, but now they come because there is something to see:
Three of the largest television distributors in America reached agreements Wednesday to carry Fox Sports 1 when the new network launches, according to the Los Angeles Times.
In Egypt’s bloodiest day since the Arab Spring began, riot police Wednesday smashed two protest camps of supporters of the deposed Islamist president, touching off street violence that officials said killed nearly 300 people and forced the military-backed interim leaders to impose a state of emergency and curfew.
Four people could face up to a year in jail for chalking up city sidewalks while protesting police misconduct.
North Las Vegas City Manager Tim Hacker and City Attorney Jeffrey Barr both resigned Wednesday, but newly elected Mayor John Lee called the departures amicable.
Ancient rock etchings along a dried-up lake bed in Nevada have been confirmed to be the oldest recorded petroglyphs in North America, dating back at least 10,000 years.
Zach Holt is only 14, two years too young to be a pro fisherman on the bass tour. So he had to get a special dispensation from the sanctioning body allowing him to compete in the U.S. Open on Sept. 9-11 on Lake Mead, which is like the Super Bowl of bass fishing for anglers in the Western states who wear caps advertising worm shops.
Las Vegas Police say that the man shot by an off-duty detective on the Strip Sunday night was attempting to steal the officer’s personal vehicle.
The federal government has treated Nevada like its “colony” since statehood by continuing to exert management control over more than 80 percent of the state’s 110,540 square miles, says a leader of a Nevada conservative think tank.
This is no ordinary studio session. You can’t tidy your hair or pose in any traditional sense of photo-taking. This picture will be of a body part of your choosing.
Pinnacle Entertainment completed its $2.8 billion acquisition of regional casino rival Ameristar Casinos Wednesday, a day after the Federal Trade Commission approved a consent package to avoid any antitrust issues.
A pilot managed to escape unscathed after his plane went down near Mount Charleston Wednesday night.
Wednesday marked a come-behind victory for 325 Clark County School District seniors. Out of thousands more seniors who were short on their graduation requirements this spring and couldn’t walk the stage for their diplomas, this small percentage kept at it, making one last-ditch effort this summer and succeeding.
“Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don’t believe hypnosis is real, don’t talk to Marc Savard’s wife, Joanna, for a while.
The Green Zone website got off the ground Wednesday with a promise to carry on the safe-haven tradition for Nevada’s 300,000 veterans by providing a cyberspace place for them to find jobs by connecting with employers and tap education and health care benefits.
A 52-year-old man shot and killed by Las Vegas police had been on a 10-day drinking binge before his fatal encounter, a detective testified Wednesday.
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Jozy Altidore had a hat trick to lead an impressive comeback Wednesday, with the U.S. scoring all of its goals in the second half to beat Bosnia-Herzegovina 4-3 in Sarajevo and extend its record winning streak to 12 games.
More Nevadans are opting to recycle glass, paper, metals, plastic, electronics and other household waste.
