I’m glad we’re all in agreement on Sunday’s column that simply noted the growing number of cases in which local American Civil Liberties Union lawyers have defended religious freedoms.
When she posed naked for Playboy last year, American swimming champion Amanda Beard started an Olympics tradition that deserves full disclosure.
Though several big strides have been taken in recent years, the sport of mixed martial arts still is trying to break into the mainstream.
BEIJING — It began with those McDonald’s scratch-off cards, the ones where each time the United States won a medal in the Olympics you were guaranteed something on the menu.
For the second time in Lon Kruger’s five years as coach, UNLV’s basketball team will open Mountain West Conference play with a home game.
A.J. Ellis brought a grand end to the 51s’ six-game losing streak Monday night.
BEIJING — The woman stood below a silhouette that made Liu Xiang appear larger than life. Perhaps even larger than China, and that’s saying something around these parts. She managed a smile although her heart ached.
ELY — UNLV’s football team practiced an overtime drill Monday so the Rebels would be prepared should they take an opponent beyond the fourth quarter.
For the second time in three seasons, Bishop Gorman’s baseball team has advanced to the American Legion World Series.
Former President Bill Clinton challenged Americans Monday to make the United States a model of renewable energy use for the world to follow.
You can enjoy Super Summer Theatre/Signature Productions’ “Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida” by simply thinking of all the shows it reminds you of. Its story of doomed love set among nobility and slaves is “Jesus Christ Superstar” polygamized with “Evita,” “The Lion King,” and Bob-Fosse-does-ancient Egypt.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld a Las Vegas chef’s conviction for his role in the killing and dismemberment of a man whose remains were found in suitcases in two trash bins.
Slain former Olympic boxer Roshii Wells died disappointed with his professional fighting career, gunned down Aug. 11 in an eastern Las Vegas apartment complex.
INDIAN SPRINGS — While an unmanned Predator spy plane flew a training mission Monday over Creech Air Force Base, another one somewhere over Iraq or Afghanistan controlled via satellite link by a crew at Creech made aviation history: the 400,000th hour of flight for the drone.
Not long ago, Sara Morrison-Soncini, a respiratory therapy student at the College of Southern Nevada, pleaded with government officials not to cut her school’s budget.
CARSON CITY — A detailed “report card” on Nevada’s public schools shows a slight increase in the student dropout rate and a slight decline in the graduation rate, state schools chief Keith Rheault said Monday.
RENO — A fast-moving brush fire destroyed six homes in less than an hour Monday before dozens of firefighters doused the flames in the same neighborhood where four homes burned in 2004.
The excitement of my Olympic experience has been subdued with sad news from home.
Public school officials scrounging for alternative sources of cash because of the state’s budget crisis are looking at options ranging from selling advertising on school buses to creating a rainy day education fund.
A photo caption in Monday’s Review-Journal had incorrect information about the book “Massacre at Mountain Meadows.” The book was written by Richard E. Turley, Ronald W. Walker and Glen M. Leonard.
CARSON CITY — The Department of Transportation has been forced to ground one of its three state planes because of a freak accident in Ely.
A case that has dragged through courts for a decade has resulted in a staggering $388 million award for a Las Vegas inventor against California state tax authorities.
PHOENIX — More than 250 residents and tourists have evacuated an American Indian village in a remote offshoot of the Grand Canyon after weekend flooding that wrecked trails and nearly washed away some river rafters in the gorge.
Can you play poker with no cards, no chips and no dealers? Poker players at Excalibur are about to find out.
