RENO — A Nevada Supreme Court candidate has sharply criticized her opponent’s comments at a rally for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin last month.
WASHINGTON — In 2005, a 6-foot marble statue of Sarah Winnemucca was donated by Nevada for display in the U.S. Capitol. For three years, it sat near a side door entrance to the House of Representatives wing.
CARSON CITY — Two Wynn Las Vegas dealers who filed a class action lawsuit in 2006 to end a tip-pooling program implemented at the Strip casino lost their case Thursday before the Nevada Supreme Court.
Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson saw his net worth decline by $4 billion last month because of the slumping national economy, and that was before Thursday’s nearly 679-point stock market meltdown.
A man convicted of beating his 57-year-old girlfriend to death with a hammer was sentenced Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Las Vegas police arrested a 27-year-old man Wednesday night suspected of stabbing his mother to death in their southwest valley home.
Seven months after an IRS raid rattled the local nightclub industry, many of the practices that put Pure Management Group‘s empire in jeopardy continue at other clubs, sources say.
On the ball when off the cuff — that’s the improv mind spinning wildly and wittily into the comic unknown at the drop of a dare.
Andre Agassi says it’s not easy, signing up stars to perform during his fundraising concert, “Grand Slam for Children.”
The interior of Market Grille Cafe is attractive and soothing. There’s a fountain in a corner, big swaths of fabric draped from the ceiling, faux-painted walls, tabletops inlaid with photos of Greece, soft lighting and gentle Greek music. Pretty nice for a counter-service place in a strip mall, eh?
Pop upstarts The Jonas Brothers have added another show at the MGM Grand Garden arena on Nov. 29. Tickets are $45, $65 and $89.25 and go on sale at noon Saturday at the MGM Grand box office, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, and Ticketmaster outlets.
They trimmed their beards, which means they no longer look like a bunch of Foghat roadies circa 1976 or a pack of stoner yetis.
The 12th annual Bite of Las Vegas food and music festival is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Oct. 18 at Desert Breeze Park, 8275 Spring Mountain Road. Some 45 restaurants are expected to participate, offering tastes in $1 to $5 portions. Admission is $8 for adults, free for children 5 and younger, and those attending can get $1 off the admission price with a donation at the gate of canned food for the City Mission of Las Vegas. Also, $1 from every ticket sold will be donated to the mission. For more information, visit www.biteoflv.net or call 889-5100. …
It’s only fitting that “The Kid Who Ran for President,” a musical adaptation of a couple of popular Dan Gutman books, should be having its world premiere at the Rainbow Company. Its book, music and lyrics were written by a former Rainbow member.
As of Oct. 1, Boyd Gaming’s three downtown casinos (California, Fremont and Main Street Station) have a new consolidated players club called B Connected that not only lets members earn and redeem points at those casinos, but also earn and redeem points at the Gold Coast, Orleans, Suncoast and Sam’s Town, plus the six Boyd casinos in Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana and Illinois. Members earn one point for every dollar coin-in and every 1,000 points can be redeemed for $1 in cashback. All unredeemed point balances from the former Players Gold cards have been transferred to the B Connected system, but members must pick up a new B Connected card in order to earn and redeem additional points.
Should you be punished for paying your own way and deciding not to participate in a government program?
Would the IRS encourage people of undetermined backgrounds to stand outside shopping malls and grocery stores and offer to mail residents’ completed tax returns just weeks before the filing deadline? Would the DMV want these same people to set up camp in front of libraries and post offices and hand out change-of-address forms, then offer to submit them to the state, as required by law?
On the day the Dow Jones industrial average reverted to 2003 numbers, Nevada’s casino win fell back to 2006 levels.
The stock market looks like a war zone, whether it’s viewed at the grass-roots level of individual investors, from the perspective of local public companies or in the market averages.