An eventful first week of the college football season is in the books, and the biggest losers are Oregon running back LeGarrette Blount and Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford.
Local police and fire agencies will mark the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, at dozens of ceremonies Friday, and the public is invited to attend.
Two Las Vegas judges looked at the same facts and came to completely opposite opinions about local attorney Neil Beller.
Parent education, teacher recruitment and new academic programs such as Montessori and dual language are a few of the proposals to help break the “social isolation” of six elementary schools in West Las Vegas.
A woman who threatened to burn down her husband’s apartment and set him on fire Wednesday was locked in a standoff with North Las Vegas police for more than two hours before being arrested.
MOAPA — Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge, but don’t expect confetti or cake. … The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has no plans to mark the occasion, and for good reason: The 117-acre oasis for endangered fish isn’t open on Thursdays.
A paraplegic convicted in May of voluntary manslaughter with a deadly weapon for killing a man almost three years ago, was sentenced to five to 15 years in a Nevada prison Wednesday.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday urged Gov. Jim Gibbons to withhold environmental permits for a proposed dump for California trash near Winnemucca.
A federal bankruptcy judge Wednesday lifted the hold that threatened to delay the first civil trials in the hepatitis outbreak.
When local wedding chapel representatives approached him about renewing his wedding vows to defend Las Vegas’ “marriage capital” status, Mayor Oscar Goodman was all for the idea.
MADISON, Wis. — Three cash-strapped states may find themselves left at the starting line in the competition for more than $4 billion in education stimulus funding if they don’t amend laws that prevent student test results from being tied to teacher evaluations.
The crowd of people who want Sen. Harry Reid’s job just added another member, state Sen. Mark Amodei, R-Carson City.
Larry Pinson’s name was misspelled in a Wednesday story on botox treatments. Pinson is the executive director of the Nevada Board of Pharmacy.
Until recently, The Shade Tree shelter had to call ambulances to transport residents to hospitals an average of six times each day.
LaToya Jackson appears to be on the verge of joining the celebrity foreclosure list.
Even the deep recession couldn’t keep Fab Four fans in Las Vegas and around the world from spending big bucks on box sets of digitally remastered Beatles classics as well as “The Beatles: Rock Band” video game, puzzles, books, pins and more.
The casino business, the wedding business, the restaurant business were all hot on Sept. 9, 2009. The 99? business — not so much.
Heartache and longing by the dump truck full is what’s in store for the latest roundup of Vegas music releases:
Let’s Make A Deal” could be the best thing to happen to the Tropicana since, oh, a new operator came onboard in July to helm a $125 million face-lift.
The fourth annual Las Vegas CultureFest, one of the city’s largest multicultural gatherings, is set for downtown’s Fremont Street Experience Friday through Sunday.
Shakespeare. Sondheim. Lloyd-Webber. Elvis. Jane Austen. Sophocles. Mommie Queerest. Whales. Bugs. Chicas.
Grip a paintbrush. Grab a camera. Recite a passage. Clutch a baton. Seize an instrument. Lift your voice. Hit the downbeat. Raise the roof.
Deemed a gallery of regret, ugliesttattoos.com features some pretty bad examples of ink. For instance, there’s a tattoo of a dolphin smoking out of a bong, the face of Linda Blair’s character in “The Exorcist” and a logo for a Canadian baseball league that lasted less than a season. (And it’s paired with amateur drawings of Disney characters, making for one hot mess of a tattoo.)
