• LAKE MEAD — Trout anglers have been catching fish from the Hemenway fishing dock and Boulder Harbor fishing pier after recent plants. Striper fishing has been sporadic, though a few were caught near Boulder Harbor. Anglers using cut bait caught small stripers in the Vegas Wash arm.
None of the members of the Rancho girls soccer team was born when Cyndi Lauper released the single “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” in 1983.
BJ Penn has dominated the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s lightweight division for the better part of two years.
When Nick Holt left Southern California this month to become Washington’s defensive coordinator, Palo Verde senior cornerback Torin Harris had some thinking to do.
During the past several weeks I have spoken with or received e-mails from several frustrated hunters who are looking for those one or two honey holes that might still hold a few quail or chukar. Unfortunately, I don’t know of any such places. Not in Southern Nevada, anyway.
TAMPA, Fla. — Even the weather in Arizona was gloomy in the aftermath of the Cardinals’ 47-7 loss to New England.
A North Las Vegas police officer arrested in connection with allegations that he exposed himself and tried to coerce women into sexual activities to get out of traffic tickets is no longer with the department.
North Las Vegas police say they have determined the drowning of a 2-year-old boy in a backyard swimming pool to be an accident.
Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., has been named to her third committee in the House, getting a special waiver from the Democratic leadership to serve on more than the usual number of committees.
RENO — Gov. Jim Gibbons was ordered Wednesday to appear in federal court for a settlement conference with a former staffer who claims she was fired because the governor thought she had leaked details about his private text messages on a state phone.
CARSON CITY — Nevada’s soaring unemployment rate will climb to a peak of 11.4 percent early next year and could force the state to ask for a federal loan to pay laid-off workers, according to an analysis released Wednesday.
A 24-year-old man who was imprisoned for his role in a 2002 Las Vegas homicide was indicted this week on charges that he possessed a stolen gun.
Representatives for Steve and Elaine Wynn are saying little about a published report claiming the power couple split several months ago.
Quick. You’re in your house, you hear a scream for help and look out front to see a woman and her dog under attack by two pit bulls.
Perry Danley asked to be handcuffed as soon as he saw the Las Vegas police.
WASHINGTON — The already scaled back federal funding to bury nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain would drop by close to $100 million more through the rest of fiscal 2009, continuing a steep downward spiral that raises new questions about the future of the project.
WASHINGTON — Republicans began a television ad in Reno on Wednesday attacking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as a “super-spending partisan.”
Planned marquee outages on the Strip come along about as often as Megabucks jackpots.
CARSON CITY — Nevada has started research on ways of getting people to pay extra if much of their driving is done during rush-hour periods on heavily traveled routes.
North Las Vegas City Councilwoman Stephanie Smith filed her candidacy for mayor Wednesday, joining fellow council members Shari Buck and William Robinson in the race for term-limited Mayor Michael Montandon’s seat.
As Minnie Celia Noble spoke Wednesday night a wave of quiet came over the 150 or so West Las Vegans gathered at the Doolittle Community Center. The 77-year-old asked with as much voice as she could muster: “Why cut off our access?” Like Noble, many of those gathered have been fighting the closure of F Street for months. But they were surprised to learn that D Street also will soon be cut off under the current plans for the $240 million Interstate 15 north widening project.
Fancy yourself a filmmaker but just don’t have any of that expensive equipment? If you can type, you can make a movie at www.xtranormal.com/. Pick characters, type a script, add animations and select background music for hours of amusement. You also can browse other people’s creations.
The producers of “Tony n Tina’s Wedding” hope to feed more guests and a weekly celebrity in their new home at Planet Hollywood.
As rock stars go, he’s a classical gas. … Well, not a rock star rock star. But as a violin virtuoso, the dude’s The Boss.
