Two employees at the Nevada State Veterans Home were suspended after they were seen drinking in the parking lot.
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My inspiration for this column often comes from some (un)official holiday, but not much is celebrated in August. Maybe it’s too hot or folks are busy with vacations. There is also the issue of winding down from the summer and gearing up for the kids heading back to school. Now there is inspiration! Gearing up for learning.
Recently, a couple of legal questions and concerns have come forward.
Sometimes I participate in a sort of email round robin discussion group with my brother and friends, and recently we were discussing what happened to the Sambo’s restaurant chain and that led to a discussion of the story “Little Black Sambo.”
A group of U.S. senators recently announced — with much fanfare, pomp and circumstance — the Campus Safety and Accountability Act for the expressed purpose of fighting “sexual assaults on college and university campuses by protecting and empowering students, and strengthening accountability and transparency for institutions.”
To say that Haydn Haycocks loves trains is an understatement, a description that fails to dig deep to the core of the obsession the young artist and train aficionado has gained since he was a kid.
It was his million-dollar smile and magnanimous heart that separated Dan Leach from the rest, according to his friends and family.
From the moment you step into the new entrance of Boulder City Hospital, you can see the changes underway to make the facility more viable and meet the needs of the city’s population.
It was the kind of night that would have made Dan Leach smile.
U.S. District Court ordered Brian Olsen, son of City Attorney Dave Olsen, to pay more than $20,000 in attorney fees after ruling in favor of Boulder City and Henderson relating to Brian Olsen’s arrest in 2010.
Nine athletic teams at Boulder City High return to their athletic venues in August for the start of the 2014-2015 school year.
Avisit to Canyon de Chelly National Monument is a feast for the eyes and soul. Here you will find sheer red sandstone cliffs rising 1,000 feet above the fertile farmland of the canyons, where prehistoric ancestral Puebloan ruins and hundreds of other archaeological sites dot the landscape. People have lived here nearly 5,000 years — believed to be the longest continuous occupancy of any site on the Colorado Plateau.
A former foster care worker pleaded not guilty Thursday to sexual assault charges, according to his public defender.
The way for Team Boulder to get better this coming winter was to spend a grueling summer on the mats.
Some years ago I faithfully attended the annual Comic-Con gathering in San Diego with my young son, a fan of Superman, Batman and Spider-Man, to be sure. Short for “comic book convention,” the international event has since grown into what is probably the largest pop culture convention in the U.S., if not the world. This year, 130,000 individuals showed up, hundreds of them in costume depicting superheroes, Harry Potter characters, Ninja Turtles, Wonder Woman, Usagi Yojimbo of Japanese fame and many others.
Law? Founded in truth from the beginning of time. A three-letter word tethered by a scale and covered with a blindfold, offering unbiased oversight in our lives.
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As part of my job, I am on a lot of political party mailing lists, Republican, Democratic, American Independent, Libertarian.
Judith Nies doesn’t leave the environmental optimists and desert daydreamers among us much room for hope in her new book, “Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa and the Fate of the West.”
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