When I first heard Robert DeNiro had agreed to play a character based on Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal in the Martin Scorsese movie “Casino,” I couldn’t stop grinning.
Curlin is going to defend his title in the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Oct. 25 at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.
Blame it on the par-5 ninth hole on the Mountain Course at Silverstone Golf Club.
With his senior season on the horizon, UNLV’s Wink Adams is enjoying the view from the top.
When Nichole Corpus-Massucci woke up Tuesday morning and saw that the wind had finally died down, the Bishop Gorman junior girls golfer knew it was going to be a good day.
The UNR men’s basketball team has been tapped by coaches and media to win the Western Athletic Conference title.
With a new coach and the loss of their best player to graduation, the Lady Rebels didn’t expect to be picked very high in the Mountain West Conference basketball preseason poll.
Paul Azinger apologized for doing the interview by phone and not in person. But there’s no way he was going to miss one pitch of his beloved Tampa Bay Rays playing the Boston Red Sox in the American League Championship Series.
Not everyone associated with Brigham Young shares his opinion, but senior guard Lee Cummard said he looks forward to his trips to Las Vegas.
Brigham Young’s offense fields plenty of star power in quarterback Max Hall, tailback Harvey Unga, wide receiver Austin Collie and tight end Dennis Pitta.
Nevada Supreme Court justice candidate Kris Pickering said Tuesday night that she notified federal authorities after her campaign manager is alleged to have offered to funnel $200,000 into her war chest last summer if she agreed to remove herself from certain eminent domain cases.
After months of cost overruns and construction delays, the new Nevada State Museum is on track for completion at the Springs Preserve in February — just in time for massive budget cuts that could keep it from opening until July 2011 or later.
The Wall Street crisis has sent a chill through the once-blazing Las Vegas nightclub industry, with reports of downsizing and the slashing of celebrity fees.
Forty-five percent of principals recently surveyed by the Clark County Association of School Administrators said they could not judge the effectiveness of the local Public Broadcasting Service because they were either undecided or it was “not applicable.”
RENO — A former Washoe County water engineer who pleaded guilty to embezzling agency funds to finance his gambling addiction was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison.
U.S. Sen. John Ensign said Tuesday that Republican presidential nominee John McCain must be more aggressive in blaming Democrats for the current financial crisis if he wants to win the argument with Barack Obama.
WASHINGTON — The federal railroad board’s chairman says he is open to having a public hearing on the Department of Energy application to build a rural Nevada rail line to ship nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain.
WASHINGTON — Heading into the final weeks of a hard-fought race, the candidates for Congress from suburban Las Vegas appear to be planning a rush of late spending before Election Day.
A 17-year-old who admitted accidentally stabbing his friend to death during a fight was sentenced to spend two to six years in prison Tuesday.
Bookmaker and former casino boss Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal died in Florida on Monday at age 79, according to family members and a source at his high-rise condominium complex in Miami Beach.
Federal banking officials Tuesday gave Southern Nevada bankers and their colleagues around the country a pill that will make it easier for them and some of their best depositors to sleep better at night.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — An unusually high number of traffic accidents involving big rigs has sparked the Arizona Department of Transportation to reduce the speed limit for trucks as they descend along a 13-mile stretch of Arizona Route 68 toward the Colorado River communities of Bullhead City, Ariz., and Laughlin.