There are many professions a man may enter without a special talent; politics comes to mind, but standing guard over children ought to require at least a passing acquaintance with decency. Failing that, one might try something safer, like juggling axes. The Clark County School District Police Department arrested 43-year-old Antonio Vaughan on Tuesday, after…

Road rage is a curious American pastime. It begins with a horn, matures into a glare, and too often graduates into something the undertaker must settle. On April 5 in Sparks, at about 5:26 in the evening, police went to Vista Boulevard and Salomon Circle, where they found a man run over by a vehicle…

There are a few things in this country that move faster than a man late for work, except, perhaps, a Las Vegas commuter who believes the highway is expressly for his personal ambitions. That grand illusion found interruption early Monday morning. Just after 3 a.m. on April 27, the Nevada State Police received a summons…

Well, now, if Providence ever meant for a man to wander into a supermarket fresh off a shift that treated his skull like a jackhammer in a concrete tomb, it failed to circulate the memo. There I was, blinking like a bat dragged into a casino, staggering beneath fluorescent suns, on a holy quest for…

It is one of those modern miracles that would make an old philosopher put down his pipe and take up gardening instead. The nation, in a rare act of financial mercy, managed to lower the average cost of car insurance by about 6 percent in 2025. And Nevada, not wishing to be outdone by common…

Now it is a curious thing about money that once it leaves a man’s pocket in the form of taxes, it does not so much vanish as travels, mostly eastward, where it grows legs, acquires a suit of government seriousness, and returns home wearing a different name. In fiscal year 2024, the federal government gathered…

There are moments in Nevada when a man may say more with a shiny wrist than with all the words God ever gave him, and this appears to be one of them. A short social media video, now vanished like a guilty thought at sunrise, has set the polite corners of Las Vegas Realtors to…

In Nevada politics, there is an old belief, handed down like a worn playing card: you cannot represent a place you do not understand. It is a comforting thought, especially in times when understanding is in short supply and confidence is a brisk trade. James Settelmeyer, a Republican candidate for Congress, appears to have read…

The Republic, having discovered that vice travels well, recently organized a grand excursion to meet it, calling the affair “Operation Coast to Coast,” which sounds like a holiday until you read the fine print. More than 250 agencies from 30 states identified 154 victims, arrested 139 people, and gathered half a million dollars in assets.…

In Sparks, a city not known for quiet domestic philosophy, police were summoned to E Street just before two o’clock in the afternoon on the report of a woman being held against her will by her boyfriend. It is the sort of sentence that always sounds like it ought to end with someone reconsidering their…