The pounding on a chisel to remove bone spurs, the hammering of pins to secure bone, the high-pitched whine of a drill and electric saw alternately cutting away and boring into the knee joint: The sounds of the operating room, which moments ago were beeping monitors as Dr. Michael Crovetti sliced open Earl Kimberly’s right knee with a scalpel, have become those of a woodshop.
Soon after the Boston Marathon bombings, well before the funerals were arranged, the amputations completed and medications for post-traumatic stress disorder dispensed, the questions began.
You want customer service? Check this out. A major Strip venue is refunding people’s airplane tickets to Vegas due to postponed shows. On Friday, the upcoming Light nightclub at Mandalay Bay announced it will not open as scheduled this week. Instead, the club will open Memorial Day weekend.
The Clark County Commission no longer has any business running University Medical Center. The region’s only public hospital loses nearly $2 million every week. Everyone who has looked at the accounting in recent years agrees that annual taxpayer bailouts approaching $100 million won’t last forever.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Las Vegas 51s led in the ninth inning before Tyler Colvin’s two-run single for the Sky Sox gave Colorado Springs the 8-7 win.
The UNLV women’s tennis team beat Air Force 4-3 on Sunday in a neutral-site Mountain West match at Fort Collins, Colo.
UNLV baseball coach Tim Chambers can’t answer why his team doesn’t get frazzled when it falls behind.
Most guys can tell a regretful story about the one that got away, and it’s usually a personal tale about a girl. The biggest regret of Peyton Manning’s professional career has to be a double-overtime game that got away in January.
RENO — Tiny pieces of California Gold Rush history fetched big bucks at a Reno auction of Western Americana.
