With gasoline over $4 a gallon and ticket prices as high as $700, it’s little wonder the so-called “Fight of the Year” between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito isn’t a sellout.
A plan to use land in northwest Las Vegas for a municipal service yard and other public services moved ahead Thursday, despite strong opposition from residents concerned they don’t know enough about what’s going to be placed on the parcel.
The Clark County School District gave itself an “A” for its 2007-08 performance under federal standards, even though the number of schools needing improvement increased over the previous year and the number of schools showing improvement declined.
Genetic testing has traced seven hepatitis C infections to two patients who underwent procedures at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada last year, Southern Nevada Health District officials announced Thursday.
When the state Supreme Court makes its much-awaited ruling on term limits, it will dispel a cloud of uncertainty hanging over the primary election.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence given to a Las Vegas man convicted of a 1985 Las Vegas murder.
A District Court clerk improperly diverted interest money from a trust account to the county’s general fund, and the county must repay the man whose property was seized under eminent domain, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
RENO — The U.S. Forest Service is proposing to eradicate trout from seven Sierra Nevada lakes in the Desolation Wilderness to help save the mountain yellow-legged frog.
A Nevada Army National Guard Black Hawk helicopter landed safely Thursday in a remote area of Northern Nevada after its rotor blade clipped a tree during a high-altitude training mission near Hobart Reservoir, a Guard spokesman said.
Members of Team USA are keeping an age-old tradition of celebrity aliases alive.
On Thursday’s letters to the editor page, the Review-Journal improperly identified Mary Ella Holloway as president of the Clark County Education Association. Holloway is in fact a former president of the organization.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court held Thursday that worker compensation benefits can go to families of people who kill themselves if an industrial accident broke down their “rational mental process” and left them suicidal.
GRAPEVINE, Texas — The Baylor University Board of Regents fired President John Lilley on Thursday, saying he was unable to unite the school’s students, faculty and administrators.
One of the great comedy bits of the past 10 years is Jim Gaffigan’s “Hot Pockets” routine. It usually starts like this:
RENO — State officials on Thursday closed the Marlette Peak Campground along the Tahoe Rim Trail after a camper reported being “stepped on” by a black bear while he slept in his tent.
The FBI will officially mark its 100th year as a law enforcement agency on Saturday. But there can be no proper remembrance without a salute to the late Las Vegas Special Agent John Bailey.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid rarely talks publicly about religion, but on Thursday religion provided an unavoidable subtext for him at a Senate hearing.
CARSON CITY — The state’s university regents, trying to cope with budget woes, will consider a proposal at their August meeting in Reno to shut down a debt-laden firefighting academy in eastern Nevada.
Matt Skiba’s disposition often seems to match his eyeliner — like some bottomless inkwell, it’s painted in the deepest shades of black. Judging from his band’s dark-hued records, the Alkaline Trio frontman sounds like a man with storm clouds tethered to his heels.
As a dedicated reporter, it’s my job to report that a local preview screening of “Step Brothers” earlier this week was packed to the gills with people laughing their heads off. (To be strictly accurate, “heads” is a family-newspaper euphemism for a different, somewhat less dignified portion of the human anatomy.)
Beyond a too-little-too-late awareness of the geographical vulnerability of the city of New Orleans, it’s difficult to find many positives in the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. But here’s one: the Katrina Diaspora, which is steadily spreading the glories of Creole/Cajun cooking to areas of the country where it has been all but nonexistent.
Jerry’s Nugget has made several major revisions to its players club. More Club members now receive $1 cashback plus $1 comp for every 600 points ($600 coin-in) earned on their cards. Players earning 500 base points in 90 days move on to the silver tier and receive a 15 percent comp redemption discount. Gold tier members (30,000 base points in 90 days) receive a 25 percent discount. All rewards can be redeemed from new interactive kiosks installed throughout the casino, plus More Club members also will receive a free T-shirt when they pick up their new card (which is required to earn points). Through Aug. 28, players earning 1,000 points in one day can swipe their card at a kiosk and receive up to a $100 free gasoline card.
I can get weepy watching “Babe,” reading Stephen King’s “The Dead Zone,” or listening to “I’ll Be Home For Christmas.” But not a single game has ever toyed with my tear ducts. Games look great, sound great and play great. But they are not emotional.
