Brandon Hardy of Las Vegas was named the best professional truck driver in Nevada after winning the flatbed competition and receiving the highest overall score in the seven competing categories at the 2008 Nevada Truck Driving Championships in Reno. The annual event is sponsored by the Nevada Motor Transport Association, Inc.
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It made Mills Lane famous. It began Mike Tyson’s journey from star to laughing stock (”I’ll eat his children!”). It’s the ear bite. And it happened in Vegas, baby!
Not to be outdone by it’s much bigger and richer brother to the south, Reno has entered the ear biting fray in a way that only Reno [...]
Gender equity jihad waged against state of Nevada
Posted in animals, fights, nevada, porn, prostitution on Aug 1st, 2008
Tourism officials say the fallout has been dramatic
It is viewed as a subversive reversal of America’s long-standing tradition of the subjugation of the feminine. We’re not talking oppression by chastity belts, corsets, pornography or glass ceilings. No, a new war was waged this week by a fathers’ rights group calling for an end to [...]
Southern Nevada news media is hot on the trail today for a missing amateur UFO watcher, known by friends and townsfolk simply as “Bob on The River.”
Bob was discovered to be missing after he and his comrades from Needles, Calif., just a stone’s throw south of Laughlin, Nev., each reported seeing an unidentified flying object [...]
BREAKING NEWS! Former UNR president fired from Baylor
Posted in nevada on Jul 25th, 2008
In a shocking and unforeseen move, Baylor University’s Board of Regents fired Baylor president, John Lilley.
The action came on the heels of woefully unfounded allegations that Lilley’s leadership was creating tension among Baylor faculty.
This is also after Lilley’s tenure at the University of Nevada, Reno, where, as president, he successfully raised morale, increased fund-raising efforts [...]
Nevada once had the designation of being called “The Mississippi of the West.” Some years ago, Nevada was considered a pretty racist place, complete with the fact that Las Vegas Strip entertainers like Sammy Davis, Jr. were not allowed to stay in the hotels in which they played due to their skin color. It’s not [...]
Ely newspaper publishes editorial cartoon
Posted in higher education, nevada, politics on Jul 21st, 2008
ELY–The fine newspaper tradition of publishing political cartoons as editorial commentary also has a noted history in White Pine County’s The Ely Times.
In an opinion column published last week, Times editor Kent Harper explains his cartooning process.
Harper, it appears, has a strong local following. Avid reader Richard Jacobson writes:
“I am a fan of Ely, The [...]
Reno, NV - Local man, George Scripts, was looking to score a few blunts on the evening of Saturday July 13th, but couldn’t find any useful drug dealer contact information on the internet. “I typed in a million different combinations, but couldn’t find a phone number or an address or even a picture of a [...]
LAS VEGAS—In what came as a surprise to the world’s most respected Nobel Peace Prize winners, University of Nevada, Las Vegas researchers released a study today that definitely proves a phenomenon that, until now, was a mystery.
The scientists, at a briefing held on one of the campus’s dozens of lush, green lawns, announced that they [...]
One man lucky to be alive after using fake bomb on trigger happy armored car guards
Posted in nevada on Jul 13th, 2008
Some guy figured it would be a good idea to try and hold up an armored car with…wait for it…a cardboard box. That’s right, a cardboard box.
He made several critical mistakes. Not only was the box obviously not a bomb, but he also forget that armored cars are manned by dudes who want nothing more [...]