As a 17-year-old senior at Chaparral High School, Johanna Blake took a part-time job as a teller with Bank of America. What the Las Vegas native couldn’t imagine was that two decades later, she would be a senior executive with the same company.
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The 2013 state legislative session wrapped up less than two months ago, but that hasn’t kept lawmakers from eyeing their next go-round.
Finally, a Fremont Street fight that will be legal, sanctioned, supervised and televised live. Welcome to “Lion Fight 11” at the Fremont Street Experience, the downtown Las Vegas five-block pedestrian tourist attraction where some of the world’s premier Muay Thai fighters will exchange punches and kicks on a Friday night in September.
The city of Vernon, Calif., has a big problem, brought on by the California Public Employees’ Retirement System. And depending on how a lawsuit against that city goes, the tiny ripple on the map that represents Vernon could become a nationwide public pension tidal wave.
WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Sean Henn (2-4); River Cats, Sonny Gray (9-6)
Alexander Marco went 4-for-4 with a double and a game-winning RBI single in the ninth inning to lead Cimarron-Memorial to a 5-4 victory over Reno in the opening round of the American Legion state tournament at UNLV’s Wilson Stadium.
During the spring, the DC Assault 17U basketball team set a goal to go undefeated in July. The Washington, D.C.-based powerhouse completed its mission Sunday at Bishop Gorman High.
The UFC World Tour begins today with a press conference in the lobby of MGM Grand.
One glance into the bleachers provided Paul Jorgensen with some extra motivation Sunday afternoon.
A lifeless group of losers, the Los Angeles Dodgers needed some kind of miracle to revive their season. That’s when Yasiel Puig arrived, armed with a bat and a defibrillator.
Their unit was supposed to save Las Vegas from a Y2K catastrophe. With the growing fear of an international computer meltdown, Las Vegas police wanted to make sure they had a unit that didn’t need technology.
A new kind of human billboard will hit Las Vegas streets in October, but instead of wearing cardboard signs around their necks, this fleet of downtown ambassadors will be armed with local insight and iPads.
A Las Vegas tour bus carrying 33 people flipped after a sudden downpour in northern Arizona Sunday afternoon.
Former Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson and retired bank executive Selma Bartlett have settled their legal dispute out of court.
“The Wolverine” slashed monsters and minions to debut atop the weekend box office. The Fox film featuring Hugh Jackman’s sixth turn as the claw-wielding superhero opened with $55 million in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday.
A helicopter crash in a remote, wooded area of northeastern Pennsylvania claimed the lives of five people, state police said Sunday.
Dr. Robert Atkins has left his mark on several generations, including some to come. The founder of the Atkins Diet, and one of Time’s 2002 Persons of the Year, famously claimed that carbohydrates, not fats, are the weight-loss enemy. Even after his death 10 years ago, millions of Americans are still “counting carbs,” swearing they will reduce them someday.
A tour bus filled with Italians returning home after an excursion plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night after it had smashed into several cars that were slowed by heavy traffic, killing at least 37 people, said police and rescuers.
Shea scored 42 seconds after coming into the game as a substitute, and his goal in the 69th minute gave the United States a 1-0 victory over Panama in the CONCACAF Gold Cup final. It is the fifth Gold Cup title for the U.S., but it’s first since 2007. The victory also extended the Americans’ winning run to a record 11 games, four more than their previous best.
Chicago’s City Council gave final approval Wednesday to a $500 million renovation of historic Wrigley Field that includes its first massive Jumbotron, improved facilities for the players in the bowels of the 99-year-old ballpark and a hotel across the street.
PIERMONT, N.Y. — A day after a bride-to-be was pulled dead from the Hudson River, the body of her fiance’s best man was found a mile downstream Sunday, the second victim of a nighttime crash involving a speedboat and a barge north of New York City.
One of three women held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade made her first public appearance at a concert featuring the rapper Nelly a day after her abductor pleaded guilty to kidnap and rape charges.
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