ARTICLES BY CRISTINA SILVA
Shotguns for single women
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Miss Rhode Island wins title
LAS VEGAS - The nation's newest Miss USA winner is a Rhode Island cellist who describes herself as a nerd and aspires to be more like Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Demanding the spotlight
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Burning Man regulars lament ticket 'fiasco'
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Coming to America
LAS VEGAS - Agustina Ocampo is the kind of foreign traveler businesses salivate over.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Report: Western states edging toward recovery
LAS VEGAS - The West is recovering faster than the nation as a whole, but employment across the region remained far below pre-recession levels and the housing market showed few signs of improvement, according to an economic report released Thursday.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Newton to open home to public
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS AGO
States struggle for financing to meet road needs
LAS VEGAS - The Hoover Dam, one of the world's great engineering feats, is marred by roads with traffic so jammed along the Nevada-Arizona border that it tells a different story about the political will to maintain 21st century infrastructure.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Spandex pants and rainbow wigs
LAS VEGAS - The Las Vegas Strip is teeming with Spidermen, Elmos and Elvis Presleys of all waistlines.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Redistricting delays 2012 House races
LAS VEGAS - Freshman U.S. Rep. Joe Heck has been running for re-election since he won in November, trying to fend off unrelenting attacks on his five-month-old voting record as the Democratic Party has saturated his Las Vegas district with billboards, phone calls and mailers.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Las Vegas embraces mob roots
LAS VEGAS - Speakeasies, bootleggers, gun-wielding crime bosses and tough-guy accents pay homage to Las Vegas' mob roots in a pair of new attractions showcasing Sin City's criminal history.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Dion returns to recession-hit Las Vegas with new show
LAS VEGAS - On the stage that French-Canadian power ballads built, Celine Dion rolls her body, drops her hips and shimmies in a gold sparkly mini-dress that looks like it was swiped from Beyonce's closet.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
An uncertain future after jobless benefits expire
LAS VEGAS - The portraits of his dead father are among the few mementoes Bud Meyers is certain he will take with him when he is forced from his home of five years next month because he cannot pay the rent.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
