Clocks are not top of mind for most of us. It’s only at this time of year when we turn our clocks back, and then again in the spring when we go forward, that we actually give them any thought. As an accessory and work horse in our lives, poor clocks are not given their fair share of attention.
: We are from California and just moved into a new house. The problem is that the water in Southern Nevada is different. My skin is dry and itchy right after a shower. I understand that a water softener is in order, so I bought one that uses salt at a home center and am ready to install it. Fortunately, we have a loop in the garage and I have sweated copper a few times before. Is there anything to look out for?
Debbie Wiener is an interior designer who cares about the cleaning-impaired, the decorating-challenged and those who would rather sit on furniture than protecting it from being sat on.
In case anyone has forgotten, four seniors — not three — are on UNLV’s basketball team. Mareceo Rutledge intends to ensure his presence is recognized this season.
This might be Paulie Malignaggi’s first time fighting in Las Vegas, but he insists he won’t be intimidated Saturday when he meets Ricky Hatton at the MGM Grand Garden.
In his four years as Moapa Valley’s starting running back, Brad Weiss has seen his team go from 3-7 to the brink of a second straight Class 3A state championship.
Unless you’re one of the dwindling millions who still get your television from rabbit ears, it probably didn’t register.
Pahranagat Valley football coach Ken Higbee said Tuesday he expects his team to be “playing our best football the last week of the season.”
In honor of British junior welterweight boxer Ricky Hatton, who is in town to fight Paulie Malignaggi on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden, Leftovers brings news from home to Hatton and his supporters.
There’s that child in all of us, that part that never seems to disappear, no matter how much a hairline retreats like a Long March into middle age or how many fewer belt holes are needed to support our trousers.
Pat Kenny remembers going to Sam Boyd Stadium to watch The Meadows win the first of five straight Class 2A state football championships in 1997.
The two compete in the November chill of football season and the triple-digit July heat of summer conditioning.
* LAKE MEAD — Striped bass are keying in on shad. Anglers are seeing boils in the morning hours in the Vegas Bay arm and along the beaches from Hemenway to Boulder Harbor. They are catching stripers from 2 to 6 pounds and catfish as large as 5 pounds. To be legal, a shad net can have a radius no larger than 3 feet. The Nevada Department of Wildlife plans to stock rainbow trout at Hemenway, Boulder Harbor and Crawdad Cove on Friday.
While fishing at Lake Mead recently, I couldn’t help but notice the crowd that squeezed together at the end of the fishing pier that reaches into Boulder Harbor, where Lake Mead Marina used to be. Where there was room to fit perhaps 10 anglers comfortably, I could see double that, and nearly everyone had at least two fishing rods. The situation didn’t look fun, but as time went by, it provided a few laughs.
Several area runners will be competing at the Nike Cross Nationals Southwest Regional qualifier in Tempe, Ariz., on Saturday.
CARSON CITY — The state Supreme Court has refused to reconsider its decision upholding Sandy Murphy’s conviction on charges of trying to steal $7 million in silver from the late Las Vegas casino executive Ted Binion’s underground vault.
More than 100 Culinary union members disrupted a Las Vegas City Council meeting Wednesday, chanting, “No new city hall! No new city hall!” after a unanimous council vote to advance the project.
WASHINGTON — With a friend in the White House and substantially more Democratic senators at his back, look for a kinder and gentler Harry Reid to be running the Senate as majority leader next year.
CARSON CITY — Attorneys for a state official facing a Nevada Ethics Commission hearing into allegations that he gave himself and his staff unauthorized pay increases contend he acted properly and did not seek “unwarranted advantages” for himself.
Clark County officials have refused to provide child welfare budget-cutting proposals to the state, calling the request from the governor’s budget office “short-sighted” and “outrageous.”
Las Vegas police on Wednesday addressed recent changes to school zone signs that have left some motorists confused.
Paranoid. Willful. Mercurial. Disrespectful. Loud. Offensive. Boorish. Quixotic. Impaired. Combative. Imperial. Unrepentant. Disrespectful. And a liar unfit to be a judge.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons has decided to move up his 2009 State of the State address to Jan. 15, four days early.
Two charred bodies found earlier this month at a remote southwestern valley location were victims of execution-style shootings, Las Vegas police said Wednesday.
