One of the mysteries of the Hunter Biden matter is how the president’s son, with no obvious sources of income, manages to maintain a grand lifestyle. For the last year or so, he has been living in a $20,000-a-month rental house in Malibu, California. (The taxpayers are footing the bill for t…
As a father, a law enforcement professional, and your next Sheriff, I believe many changes must be implemented in the way we address public safety in order for our community to reduce crime and provide a safe environment to raise our families.
The Supreme Court has confirmed that a draft opinion, joined by at least five justices, argues that court decisions legalizing abortion since 1973 were “egregiously wrong” and “must be overruled.”
The Biden administration has created a Disinformation Governance Board as part of the Department of Homeland Security. What “disinformation” will they be interested in? Will it be “disinformation” from China or Ukraine? Evidently not, since their agency is interested in the “Homeland.”
One way to shut down debate on a contentious subject is to declare that there is no debate on the subject. Everyone, absolutely everyone, agrees with one side, so why are you even trying to argue? It’s settled.
Our run-away, ravenously-spending federal government has Nevada and American businesses in their sights with a proposed big new tax, levied not just on their revenue, but on the value of their unsold assets. This proposed federal asset tax could hinder investment and new job creation. Hardwo…
Call it the dictator’s paradox: By demonstrating weakness, you affirm the Big Man’s power. By groveling, you gain standing. Pretending to believe what’s patently false, you affirm manly independence from what Jonathan Swift mockingly called “the vulgar dictates of unrefined reason.”
I want to send flowers and chocolates to the Twitter employee who permanently suspended The Babylon Bee. Maybe a car. Apparently, it was the inanity of that decision that incensed Elon Musk, whereupon he decided to purchase the entire platform to stop the censorship.
Former President Donald Trump has announced his endorsement of Sheriff Joe Lombardo for Nevada governor.
Along with everything else designed to scare us senseless, we now have the media and pundits raising the fear of “food insecurity.”
An interesting thing happened after Russia invaded Ukraine. Though US standing in the world had taken a knock after the much-needed but chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, there was no question where the world’s democracies would turn for leadership in the Ukraine crisis. As much of Europe …
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A woman died and a man was rescued and treated for hypothermia after they were caught in extreme cold weather while hiking in Utah’s Zion National Park. The National Park Service says the married couple were on a permitted, 16-mile hike through an known as the Narrows on Tuesday and Wednesday. The woman, 31, and the man, 33, were not identified. The park's rescue team responded Wednesday morning and found the man on a trail being helped by other hikers and transported him to the Zion Emergency Operations Center for treatment. Rescuers administered emergency aid to the woman but determined she had died.
A 23-year-old Las Vegas woman is being held without bail on suspicion of driving under the influence in a late-night crash in Summerlin that killed one person and injured five others, one critically. Police said Friday Tierra Richardson was booked into the Clark County jail on suspicion of DUI and seven additional criminal counts. Police say she was driving a car that hit a median west of the Las Vegas Strip and collided with two other vehicles just before 11 p.m. Thursday. The name of a 50-year-old Las Vegas woman who was killed hasn't been released. A 24-year-old passenger in Richardson’s car was hospitalized with critical injuries.
A Las Vegas man has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $2.5 million in restitution for bilking the government out of millions of dollars in federal loans and COVID-relief funds during the pandemic two years ago. Federal prosecutors say 40-year-old Jorge Abramovs participated in a scheme to defraud multiple financial institutions out of more than $1.9 million in loans and collecting more than $350,000 from employees as income that he failed to pay taxes due. Prosecutors say he spent the money on purchases for himself, including luxury condominiums, a Bentley and a Tesla passenger vehicle.
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An aging electric grid, fossil fuel power plant retirements and a massive renewable electricity buildout are all contributing to a boom in transmission and distribution wire projects by electric utilities across the country. In 2020, investor-owned electric utilities spent $25 billion on transmission, up from $23.7 billion in 2019, figures that the Edison Electric Institute, […]
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An Elko woman who suspected her longtime boyfriend of infidelity with a babysitter was arrested Nov. 19 after allegedly assaulting him with a kitchen knife and a spatula.
Nov. 10 Ashley Chavez and Luis Chavez, married March 11, 2013
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ELKO – An Elko woman was booked on more than $1 million bail after narcotics detectives said they confiscated large quantities of fentanyl and methamphetamine from her.
McAdoo and Carter will not face any immediate sanctions from the commission, but they may be subject to a recommended deferral agreement
City eyes management of golf course; school district gets update on four-day week.
"The amount of correction it would take to have a phony election is layers and layers deep because there were so many safety checks."
Staff to cover manager's duties, new mayor and council member elected.
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