The ball sailed high enough to bring more rain and right enough to worry anyone standing near the visiting on-deck circle, which means the latest first pitch thrown by Oscar Goodman before a 51s game was splendidly perfect.
Dennis Finfrock, whose innovative thinking in the construction and management of special events facilities was overshadowed by a brief, turbulent run as UNLV’s interim athletic director that resulted in the resignation of popular Rebels basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, died Saturday morning from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 62.
Sen. John Ensign’s status in the eyes of his constituents has further eroded in the last month, as revelations about his extramarital affair with a former staffer have continued to trickle out, according to a new poll by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. A majority of Nevada voters still think Ensign should not resign, though fewer feel that way than did a month ago, according to the poll conducted last week
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RENO — Nevada officials say they have “grave concerns” over a U.S. Energy Department proposal to store up to 17,000 tons of mercury at the Hawthorne Army Depot.
The man who opened fire inside the New York-New York was convicted on dozens of felony charges Monday.
The more John Thomas talked about his friend, Dr. Conrad Murray, the sadder he became. Just three days before reports flashed around the world that the 56-year-old Las Vegas cardiologist’s CPR attempts were unsuccessful in keeping Michael Jackson alive, Thomas had phoned Murray to invite him to the opening of the International MMA Fight Club gym in Las Vegas.
By the end of this week, the U.S. government plans on unveiling the rules for its cash for clunkers program.
CARSON CITY — Authorities say a father and son were injured when a home-built experimental plane crashed Saturday morning at the Carson City Airport.
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted last week to expand the federal hate crimes law to include attacks against people based on their gender or sexual orientation.
When Neil Armstrong trained at the Nevada Test Site, no one paid much attention to his footprints.
Not many aspiring journalists have had a more memorable 21st birthday than Marina Nicola.
IF READING THE NEWSPAPER TEACHES YOU ANYTHING, IT’S THAT EVERYDAY LIFE CARRIES ON, even on one of the biggest news days of the 20th century.
On top of all his other adventures and entanglements, local eccentric Lonnie Hammargren once worked as a flight surgeon for the Apollo program.
The city of Las Vegas is pursuing $213 million from the federal stimulus package, part of a plan that, statewide, is expected to pump billions of dollars into Nevada, generating 34,000 jobs at a time when statewide unemployment is at an all-time high.
The daily headlines are more depressing than a double shot of Solzhenitsyn.
Now that David Ashley is out as president of UNLV, it’s just a question of time before his vice president of diversity and inclusion, Christine Clark, joins him in being demoted to faculty.
Clark County Commissioner Rory Reid has proposed establishing a panel of 15 citizens to offer advice on how the county can weather next year’s budget crunch — expected to be as bad or worse than this year’s.
Medical specialists are doctors who train for many years to understand every system and nuance of the human body. They complete their residency at the local hospital, and then they commit many more years to the study and understanding of a single human system in order to specialize in a particular surgical technique or diagnosis.
Republicans were trying to tell America that Barack Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court was a liberal beyond the comfortable mainstream.
WEDNESDAY
JUST A LITTLE ‘FEE’
Today the … Las Vegas Nevada City Council will discuss squeezing at least $1 million more per year out of employers, primarily to cover the costs of generous pay raises already given to city workers. …
There is one good thing about the lunatic “global warming” catechism now taught our youth in the mandatory government youth propaganda camps :
For years the cheesy, celebrity gossip tabloid National Enquirer has boldly proclaimed its motto: “Enquiring minds want to know.”