The voice mail is from a producer of a new “docudrama” series. Docudrama, I learn when I call back, is the next evolution of reality television.
Dear Savvy Senior: What constitutes age discrimination in the workplace, and where can I turn to for help if I think I’ve got a case? — Demoted at 64
Meteorological records will tell you differently, but we’d maintain that Aug. 20, 1964, was one of the hottest days ever seen in Southern Nevada.
Willie McTear, of Las Vegas, is one of Charlie Company’s survivors featured in a two-hour documentary that premieres Wednesday on the National Geographic Channel. Titled, “Brothers in War,” it is narrated by Charlie Sheen and based on the book, “The Boys of ’67: Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam.”
Late last year, the Clark County Commission entertained the idea of banning news racks from the Strip as part of a larger initiative to reduce pedestrian obstacles. The plan clearly ran afoul of the First Amendment because it would have wiped out an entire source of protected expression within a very large area. Fortunately, commissioners realized the ordinance invited costly litigation and certain court defeat, and they tabled the proposal.
Henderson Mayor Andy Hafen won a close election, and he won a blowout. That’s the nature of politics.
Nevada’s governor is all the rage among Washington pundits.
Federal funding is sweet manna from heaven, as far as local and state officials are concerned. The dollars bolster budgets and support special projects without requiring cuts to other programs that, the public is assured, are far too important to sacrifice. It’s free money.
People once commonly called Las Vegas “the city without clocks” in a nod to the 24-hour nature of the place, but when Norm Ziola and Bert Stehle visited here this past week, time was very much on their minds.
The Review-Journal’s Adam Hill, Kelly Stewart and Matt Youmans compete against handicappers Bruce Marshall, Paul Stone and Ken Thomson in a contest covering NCAA Tournament games Thursday through today.
It won’t be for the title he lost, but Ishe Smith will fight for a belt when he returns to the ring.
Pittsburgh Steelers president Art Rooney II says the NFL has told the team it will not be docked a pick in this year’s draft for coach Mike Tomlin’s foray onto the field against Baltimore last November.
The last time the Wranglers faced Colorado, they suffered an excruciating loss when Mark Nemec scored with one second left in regulation to lift the Eagles to victory.
His team led by four runs in the top of the seventh on Saturday, but Arbor View baseball coach Jay Guest felt far from comfortable.
Keaton Smith scored an unearned run on a bases-loaded wild pitch with two outs in the bottom of the 12th inning Saturday to lift Green Valley’s baseball team to a 1-0 win over visiting Desert Oasis.
Dayton Yingling spun a three-hitter and wiggled out of a fourth-inning jam Saturday to help Bishop Gorman’s softball team to a 2-0 win over host Torrance (Calif.) in the Silver Bracket championship of the Torrance National Tournament.
Liberty’s Ashlie Blake destroyed a pair of meet records and was named the Outstanding Female Athlete at the Heitkotter Invitational at Faith Lutheran on Saturday.
Johnny Williams and Luke Trafton each won two individual events Saturday to help Palo Verde’s boys swimming team to a 203-74 win over Spring Valley at Pavilion.
Five swimmers won one event apiece to help Arbor View’s girls swimming team post a 193-97 win over Sierra Vista at Pavilion.
San Diego State right-hander Bubba Derby is undefeated for a reason, and there was a reason major league scouts scrambled into their seats when closer Michael Cederoth entered Saturday’s Mountain West baseball game.
Several Southern Nevada emergency rooms slammed by high numbers of mentally ill patients seeking treatment closed to ambulances in February. Gov. Brian Sandoval’s Behavioral Health and Wellness Council will meet Monday and Tuesday in Las Vegas and hear progress reports from some of the groups working toward solutions.
Crews armed with infrared cameras planned to work through the night after a barge carrying nearly a million gallons of especially thick, sticky oil collided with a ship in Galveston Bay, leaking an unknown amount of the fuel into the popular bird habitat as the peak of the migratory shorebird season was approaching.
Las Vegas Academy teacher honored as teacher of the month for her innovative approach to the classroom.
Cash-hungry local governments are eyeing changes to the property tax cap enacted by the Legislature in 2005 when land values were soaring, but state policymakers don’t appear ready at this point to entertain wholesale changes to the formula in the 2015 session.
Ben Brust hit a 3-pointer with 1:07 left and the second-seeded Badgers overcame seventh-seeded Oregon’s transition game for a thrilling 85-77 win Saturday night to get into the Sweet 16.
Led by a career-high 26 points from Branden Dawson, the fourth-seeded Spartans (28-8) moved onto the Sweet 16 for the 12th time in the last 17 seasons. They’ll play Virginia or Memphis next Friday at Madison Square Garden.
Police were looking for three men Saturday night in connection with the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old man in a rundown neighborhood south of downtown Las Vegas.
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