The e-mails have helped. So have the telephone calls from family members and close friends and ordinary acquaintances and others Delphine Lakes never has met. Someone called from Canada. She didn’t know the person. It meant everything.
It was only a year ago when the New York Giants’ two most visible faces, coach Tom Coughlin and quarterback Eli Manning, were feeling heat.
When it comes to race, the Las Vegas jury that will decide O.J. Simpson’s fate couldn’t be more different than the one that acquitted him in a double murder case more than a decade ago.
Gerald and Katrina Thitchener lost nearly all their material possessions thanks to an arrogant error by Countrywide Home Loans officials.
Three men and nine women will judge O.J. Simpson. After a marathon week, the jury in his robbery and kidnapping trial was selected Thursday night.
Michael Jackson‘s decision to live near a Las Vegas elementary school has upset some parents.
Kevin Rexford understands that a key mission of the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners — to protect the public health from physicians not practicing medicine at the desired professional level — can be painstaking work.
It was a scary couple of days for transportation officials across the nation.
CARSON CITY — Until Saturday afternoon, Yerington resident Laura Tracy never had attended a political rally in her life.
WASHINGTON — Congress voted last week to rescue the federal highway trust fund, which officials said was on the verge of going broke.
The Nevada Cancer Institute, which recently laid off staff and said the worsening economy has hurt donations, got a big boost Saturday in the form of a $20 million pledge from the Engelstad Family Foundation.
SOMETIMES SILENCE IS GOLDEN. At a recent court hearing, U.S. Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen remanded a defendant to custody after learning she had tested positive for methamphetamine and tried to fake a drug test.
Some are trying to “spin” the current troubles of Bob Loux, executive director of Nevada’s Agency for Nuclear Projects, as a partisan issue. Because Mr. Loux is in charge of organizing Nevada’s opposition to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, those calling for his resignation over recently revealed financial irregularities are merely using this as an excuse to hamper those efforts, according to this line of argument.
Why, I wonder, are so few of us complaining about the demise of the retirement pension, one of the great innovations of the 20th century?
Regardless of which party controls the state Senate during the 2009 Legislature — the GOP currently has the narrowest of majorities at 11-10 — it’s clear that new Democratic Leader Steven Horsford will bring a much different approach to Carson City than his predecessor, Dina Titus.
You can tell we’ve entered the silly season because of all the feigned outrage, whining and failure to address a single issue.
Gov. Jim Gibbons’ 4.5 percent budget cuts cement UNLV’s destiny as one of the weakest universities in the United States. The looming 14 percent rescissions for the next two-year budget cycle will kill higher education in Nevada for generations. Yet while money is indispensable for quality higher education, it is not enough.
I was speaking to a close relative the other day. He expressed a suitably cynical opinion about our current crop of politicians and the “energy crisis.”
Barack Obama has turned into Michael Dukakis, John Kerry and Al Gore. Sarah Palin has turned into Ronald Reagan.
The new Criss Angel show pins a lot of ticket-sale hopes on younger fans who spend more time in nightclubs than other shows on the Strip.
The loading dock in back of the south convention center at Mandalay Bay is empty except for all the barking. Its source is four dogs who spin around inside crates stacked two by two nearby.
Following Interstate 15 and U.S. 3 north from Las Vegas into Lincoln County, travelers take a trip back in time. The sparsely populated region still relies upon agriculture, ranching, a bit of mining, some railroading and federal and state agency employment. Increasingly, the county aims for tourist income, but just a few of the millions who annually visit Nevada ever get there. Their loss, for Lincoln County offers varied recreational opportunities, wonderful Great Basin scenery and historic towns like little Panaca.