A sniper had killed one U.S. soldier and shot at two others, so Enrique Pineda knew the enemy was out there, eager for blood.
ALONG THE ROAD TO RED ROCK CANYON on Tuesday, serious cyclists Mark Dallas and Bob McCall paused to comment on plans by public land managers to build a safer trail for bicyclists off the beaten path of state Route 159.
WASHINGTON — In one of the first actions by the new Congress that convened last week, the House passed bills aimed at combating wage discrimination against women.
For former Army medic Ivy Lara, the whistle of a mortar shell is all she remembers.
Trapped, no time for cover. The explosion leveled the sergeant’s quarters and hurled her through the air.
A man plowed a car through several steel pylons and into a pedestrian on Fremont Street Saturday morning.
At the time, it looked like a tragic case of self-defense. In May, Thomas Randolph said he shot and killed an armed intruder in his Las Vegas home, but not before the man gunned down Randolph’s wife.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Commission on Ethics has appealed a judge’s ruling limiting its authority to discipline state lawmakers.
A lone fighter hammered away at a heavy bag while hip-hop floated and feinted on the cool air inside Barry’s Boxing gym.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A 7-year-old foster child who was kidnapped while waiting for his school bus was found safe at a Las Vegas home on Saturday morning after police and FBI agents tracked a van 100 miles through the desert.
A 70-year-old man is confirmed dead and authorities have found a second body after a possible Friday boating accident on Lake Mohave.
Dorothy Phillips is as anxious as anyone would be at the thought of surgery. It’s just plain scary.
Evidence presented at a British coroner’s inquest, which found in April that a tourist from Bristol, England was “unlawfully killed” as a result of a gallbladder operation at University Medical Center in Las Vegas, is at the heart of a complaint under review by the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners.
Mayor Oscar Goodman‘s latest defense of the mob museum is certain to create some powder burns in the arts community.
WASHINGTON — After receiving more than 5,000 requests for passes to the presidential inauguration later this month, Sen. Harry Reid on Friday called on chance to help distribute some tickets. Reid pulled six numbered slips from a cowboy hat, the first batch of what was to be a lottery for 1,000 tickets to President-elect Barack Obama’s swearing-in. “There is no other way to do this fairly,” Reid said.
For the past two weeks I have basked in the numbers shining forth from the gallon and dollar counters at my local gasoline pump.
CARSON CITY — Janice and Rafael Salazar live in a 600-square-foot mobile home in an old trailer park on the north end of Reno.
SPARKS — For 10 years, Nonie Galloway helped pay the bills as a hostess-cashier at the Silver Club in Sparks.
Better treatment for veterans is not a hard sell. But most progress must be made at the federal level, where it is hard to agree on an agenda, let alone accomplish one.
In a Dec. 12 editorial, the Review-Journal argued that Guantanamo Bay detainees must remain there and be dealt with outside the framework of the American legal system because these prisoners otherwise would insist upon the “excesses” of competent defense counsel, speedy trials and due process.
On Jan. 4, the Review-Journal published an article, “Slaying suspects’ childhood ties,” about two young men arrested on suspicion of murdering a promising young woman. In 1998, both young men were boys living at St. Jude’s Ranch for Children in Boulder City. One of them filed a civil lawsuit related to alleged sexual abuse that occurred while he was a resident at the ranch more than 10 years ago.
For all his flaws, Gov. Jim Gibbons is the only elected official in state government who demonstrates an understanding of the sacrifice and suffering of Nevada businesses and their workers. The Republican’s proposal to impose a 6 percent pay cut on all state employees, including schoolteachers, is an unfortunate but necessary attempt to address an important issue and put Nevada on a fiscally sustainable path.
Our economy has become so imperiled and the numbers so large that the word million now connotes manageable size and the word billion connotes affordable moderation.
“We like driving the car, and we’re not going to give the steering wheel to anybody but us.”
In this economy, a paid-off pickup is worth more than any showroom stunner. Consumers and businesses are cutting back, newly committed to driving their cars longer. Demand for vehicles has dried up.
A Tennessee corporation wants to build a privately run prison at an industrial park in Storey County, east of Reno and north of Virginia City.
“We are filing this contest to make absolutely sure every valid vote was counted and no one’s was counted more than anyone else’s. … Something greater than expediency is at stake here. Democracy is not a machine. Sometimes it’s messy and inconvenient, and reaching the best conclusion is never quick because speed is not the first objective, fairness is.”