When I learned of the recent grand opening of the Erotic Heritage Museum, I had to smile — but not for the reason you’re thinking.
Addressing a national veterans’ convention in Las Vegas on Saturday, Republican presidential candidate John McCain criticized his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, for not supporting last year’s temporary buildup in troop levels in Iraq.
Robert Maheu, a man widely known as the face of billionaire Howard Hughes and a successful spy in World War II and the Cold War, was remembered Saturday as an enchanting raconteur, accomplished cook and impish grandfather who went by the nickname “Pepper.”
There’s buzz surrounding the IRS raid almost six months ago at Pure Nightclub at Caesars Palace and Pure Management Group’s headquarters on Industrial Road.
I have seen scorpions in my dishwasher, on the walls and near the back door of my Summerlin home. My children always run first to the exhibit of the crafty little arthropods at Red Rock Canyon. Scorpions freak me out like the thought of Tom Cruise running the world.
A headline in Saturday’s Business section incorrectly identified the spokesman who said building contractors should have the authority to conduct random drug and alcohol tests of construction workers. Steve Holloway is executive vice president of the Las Vegas chapter of the Associated General Contractors, a construction trade group that represents building contractors.
Visit the Nevada Department of Transportation’s Web site and you’ll learn that 188 people have died on our state’s highways and byways this year.
Once put on hold, the charter school movement is back in Nevada as the state Board of Education on Saturday lifted a moratorium, approved new regulations and allowed two online charter schools to expand to kindergarten through third grade.
An unemployed graphic designer who pleaded guilty to possessing toxic ricin said last week that he distilled the lethal powder in 1998 while living in San Diego from the beans of a backyard castor plant, and carried it with him for a decade while living in Reno, Las Vegas and near Salt Lake City.
SPARKS — A Washoe County sheriff’s deputy has been arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography, officers said.
Stella Wingard lives in a tiny one-bedroom in what she calls “the projects,” a bare-bones group of 84 public housing units collectively known as Ernie Cragin Annex #2.
It was a courtroom drama without the courtroom last week as the state Judicial Discipline Commission heard the case against District Judge Elizabeth Halverson, who stands accused of improperly communicating with jurors, treating her bailiff like a personal slave and falling asleep on the bench.
Clark County’s Department of Child and Family Services has never been a bastion of openness.
The “Great Man Theory” charts the course of history through the actions of prominent individuals. According to this theory, World War II is the story of decisions made by leaders such as Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
In 2001, the Orlando Sentinel filed a public records request seeking to have a private medical examiner view the autopsy photos taken after driver Dale Earnhardt was killed in a race car crash at the Daytona 500.
The leftist punditocracy, convinced that when Ronald Reagan died he left Bonzo in charge, seem overjoyed to cackle that George W. Bush is now a lame duck, a political irrelevance who retains no power to do any more than hand over the keys to the White House wine cellar. (Or is it now a tap room?)
To the editor: Last month, the Rasmussen Reports tracking poll had the Democrat-led Congress with a 9 percent approval rating. After the recent decision of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to send Congress on a five-week vacation rather than allow a vote on our nation’s energy future, that historically low 9 percent number has surely gone down.
At the risk of sounding like a less lofty (but more doable) version of the John Lennon song “Imagine,” I’ll ask all Nevadans on this fine August morning to imagine a tax holiday — a day on which all the people may shop for back-to-school supplies without paying sales tax.
For more than a year, officials from Nevada’s higher education system have argued that their ability to attract and retain top academics has been compromised by the state’s refusal to offer taxpayer-subsidized health insurance to domestic partners.
Given the number of judicial races on Tuesday’s primary ballot, you’d think voters might have at least marked their sample ballots before heading to the early polls.
Some Arkansas Democrats — Clintonians, of course — were trying to ease the pain of retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark.
Dogs played poker behind the men whose dreams gave birth to Las Vegas. But today’s leaders possess an appreciation for the fine arts as sophisticated and eclectic as our city itself has become.
With its picturesque mountain setting and abundance of 19th century buildings, historic Virginia City offers visitors plenty of charm and a busy schedule of special events. Its fabulous Comstock Lode glory days gone, Nevada’s most famous mining boomtown survives today on tourist dollars.