VFW donation dinner — 5-7 p.m., VFW Post 10054, Homestead Road, $6. Open to the public.
Several years before I was born, almost two years before my parents actually met, President John F. Kennedy began a tradition about which I never knew. He proclaimed, according to a few articles and a recent Dear Abby letter, “Let’s ring freedom bells!”
WASHINGTON — Progressives resent progress when it renders anachronistic once-valid reasons for enlarging the federal government’s supervisory and coercive powers. Hence they regret Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling that progress has rendered Section 4 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act unconstitutional.
One man was arrested last week on charges of possessing methamphetamine and heroin after he appeared to be under the influence of a controlled substance when police made contact with him as part of an unrelated investigation.
One defendant was ordered by a judge to undergo a mental competency evaluation last week after his wife told the court that her husband was exaggerating his health issues to avoid answering to criminal charges.
A byline on a story that appeared in Wednesday’s PVT, headlined “Vote to organize VEA workers flops” was incorrect. Matt Ward contributed the story. The PVT regrets the error.
Valley Electric Association management successfully fended off an attempt by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 396 last month to organize employees at the cooperative.
I don’t know about you, but I’m sick and tired of hearing this old cliché that we’re “a nation of immigrants.”
I would like to thank the Pahrump Valley Times (Marie Wujek, publisher), and her entire staff for sponsoring, supporting, and for all their efforts and coverage of the first annual WPRA Rodeo and the follow-up coverage.
Beating the heat can take on different meanings. To most, it means staying cool, but for the bold few it means not being held prisoner to the weather and going out and doing something.
Two years after his release from the county jail, a former inmate has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the Nye County Sheriff’s Office, several of its investigators and a former county medical examiner for damages he claims he suffered after he was wrongly accused of murder.
Nye County schools will see $1.6 million in extra revenue next year thanks to state legislators.
In the June 26 issue of the PVT, the story on A1 about the Miss Pahrump Pageant was written by Charlene Dean, not Mark Waite. In the accompanying photos, Miss Pahrump 2012 Sabrina Maughan crowned the first and second runners-up, not Miss Pahrump 2013 Brittany Leavitt.
VFW donation dinner — 5-7 p.m., VFW Post 10054, Homestead Road, $6. Open to the public.
The Beatty Hornets have a shortage of coaches. The school is down to three head coaches for the six sports in which they participate.
I broke my thumb in four to five different places. I hit it so hard that my knuckle blew out the end of my thumb and I severed all the tendons.”
After an arduous competition between 11 young women, professional judges from Las Vegas crowned Brittany Leavitt Miss Pahrump 2013 to a sold-out house on Saturday evening.
Pahrump town board members took the first step in finding a suitable replacement for Town Manager Bill Kohbarger when he vacates his position next month.
More than a week after Pahrump Town Manager Bill Kohbarger announced his decision to resign, the town board’s vice chairman, Bill Dolan, is saying “not so fast.”
Clark County Coroner Michael Murphy said it would be a seamless process taking over autopsies from medical examiner Dr. Rexene Worrell, but Worrell said Nye County sheriff’s deputies will now have to sign death certificates.
A District Court judge sentenced a man to prison for a maximum term of 25 years last week for driving while under the influence of alcohol, his fifth felony conviction, after she determined him to be a habitual criminal.
A man who allegedly tried to pay his pizza delivery driver with marijuana in 2010 was back in court this week after failing to make any court appearances in the case for more than two years.
A District Court judge sent one man to jail for a year after he reportedly violated the terms of his probation by attempting to leave the state without permission and sending a letter to Parole and Probation that was soaked in cat urine.
RENO (AP) — The world’s largest gold mining company has announced plans to reduce its workforce by 55 positions in Nevada and Utah through voluntary severance packages to certain employees.
RENO — The Blanco Company, based in Albuquerque, N.M., bid $200,000 for a 1,600-acre parcel, $125 per acre, in the last quarterly sale of oil and gas leases by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management this month.
People invest themselves in martial arts. Some participate to gain physical strength and balance. Some take classes for the self-defense aspect of it and some adopt the art as a way of life.
As demand for mental health services and counseling grows in the valley, Nevada Behavioral Solutions is planning to expand its services with new programs and a new location.