The playing status of UNLV cornerback Quinton Pointer came down to a game-day decision against Utah State, but coaches hope to know his availability sooner for Saturday’s game at Utah.
Imagine trying to swim without the use of one arm and one leg. Then imagine trying to swim competitively despite such obstacles.
Martin Kampmann once climbed most of the way up the ladder in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Nick Sheridan didn’t know he would start at quarterback for Michigan in Saturday’s opener until two days before the game.
Silverado junior Tameka Demps will attend College of Southern Nevada High School this year to get a head start on becoming a pharmacist.
Nevada’s law directing public works disputes to arbitration has been around since 1971, but its meaning hasn’t always been clear.
Billy Bob Thornton accidentally mingled over the weekend with some starched GOPers, and he found their way of dressing “kind of scary.”
A story in Monday’s Review-Journal about the controversy surrounding the selection of Nevada delegates for the Republican National Convention contained an error. The story should have said that the state GOP scheduled to reconvene after an unsuccessful April convention was recessed, but did not.
In 1995, after spending more than 10 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Ronald Cotton was exonerated of rape and burglary in North Carolina. He was found innocent after DNA evidence proved he didn’t sexually assault the victim, a woman who had identified Cotton as her assailant.
When construction delays and cost overruns beset the Regional Justice Center in downtown Las Vegas, Clark County and the general contractor went to arbitration, an alternative to suing in court that’s mandated by a state statute dating back more than three decades.
Jerry Lewis raised a record $65 million for the Muscular Dystrophy Association in his annual Labor Day telethon, a benefit that also made a pitch for those affected by the Hurricane Gustav.
RENO — A firefighting air tanker making one last run to drop retardant on a blaze in the Sierra Nevada on Monday evening crashed on takeoff from an airfield just north of Reno, killing all three crew members on board.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Recent flooding on the Havasupai Tribe reservation in the Grand Canyon has renewed talks of an alert system that could help tourists and residents evacuate more quickly.
WOODFORDS, Calif. — Evacuation orders were lifted Monday as firefighters gained on a wildland blaze in the eastern Sierra, officials said.