The Senate confirmed Janet Yellen on Monday as the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve, elevating an advocate of fighting unemployment and a backer of the central bank’s efforts to spur the economy with low interest rates and massive bond purchases.
It’s a mouthful: Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator. Many people may not know how to pronounce that, let alone what it means.
Time travelers, if they really exist, seem to be keeping their adventures to themselves.
Sen. Dean Heller pleaded with fellow Republicans on Monday to extend unemployment benefits for jobless workers, saying Congress left millions of people in the lurch when it allowed payments to expire two weeks ago.
A businessman’s claim he wasn’t combative with marshals before he was beaten and stunned with a stun gun while handcuffed in custody appears to be backed up in Family Court security video that has recently surfaced.
Sorry, but we just don’t understand. Sure, many of us came from parts of the country that are being whipped by an arctic blast right now, but the distance makes us a little insensitive to the situation in the Midwest and on the East Coast.
Nobody was found in a vehicle that crashed into a pond near Cheyenne Avenue and Commerce Street Monday morning, North Las Vegas police said.
The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles reported Monday that after three days of accepting applications for the new Driver Authorization Card, the failure rate on the written test is 71 percent.
An 86-year-old inmate died at a medical center at Northern Nevada Correctional Center Sunday, officials said.
Henderson officials and representatives of Inspirada Builders LLC will join in a 61-shovel groundbreaking ceremony at 11 a.m. on Saturday to signify the start of construction on the city’s two newest parks.
