Punxsutawney Phil has spoken, emerging Monday to see his shadow and forecast six more weeks of winter. But the legendary reptile Mojave Max remains in his hidey-hole. Clark County officials boast that Max is superior to the eastern groundhog. He is better, they contend, at alerting us busy humans to the onset of spring. There is no shadow involved. No silliness. When Max comes out, it’s springtime. Before that, it is winter.
CARSON CITY — Nevadans are wasting no time in sending ideas to state lawmakers, who convened their 2009 session on Monday — and already have about 1,200 suggestions on taxing prostitution, creating a state lottery and other steps to help erase a revenue shortfall.
A friend remembered a 21-year-old man shot and killed over the weekend outside a restaurant as an athletic jokester who loved making others laugh.
A federal judge apologized numerous times Monday before sentencing a retired government employee to one year of probation for violating conflict of interest laws.
An unarmed man was fatally shot in the back as he attempted to flee Victor Sung Park’s pawnshop with a Cartier watch Friday, according to Las Vegas police.
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is the latest Democratic Party figure — and the second Obama administration Cabinet nominee — to be humiliated as a tax cheat and delinquent. On Monday, Mr. Daschle humbly apologized to the Senate committee that will, in all likelihood, still confirm him as Health and Human Services secretary.
Community Bank of Nevada on Monday reported an abrupt turnaround in quarterly earnings — from $1 million in third quarter profit to a $133.3 million loss in the fourth quarter.
Apartment construction, like single-family homes, has slowed to a crawl in Las Vegas as landlords struggle with rising vacancy rates and falling rents. Builders completed 2,670 apartment units in 2008, though production is expected to fall to under 1,000 units this year, said Michael Shaffner, associate vice president for Marcus & Millichap real estate investment services in Las Vegas.
A Las Vegas convention authority official who was in charge of an $890 million renovation of the Las Vegas Convention Center has retired.
UNLV fell out of first place in the Mountain West Conference, as San Diego State used free throws from Kyle Spain and D.J. Gay to hold off UNLV 68-66 in overtime Tuesday night at the Thomas & Mack Center.
 Rebel Nation |
 UNLV Sports |
