In what might be the first flashback from the 1960s involving football, Southeastern Conference official Wilbur Hackett Jr. — a linebacker at Kentucky from 1968 to 1970 — delivered a hit on South Carolina quarterback Stephen Garcia on Saturday in the Gamecocks’ 24-17 loss to Louisiana State.
RENO — Nichole Corpus-Massucci had been steady all day, consistently finding fairways and greens, and it had her in position to win a state championship.
Brigham Young’s loss last week at Texas Christian shifts the pressure to Utah as the Mountain West Conference’s only undefeated team and its best hope for a Bowl Championship Series bid.
Justin McBride’s major bull riding career began in Las Vegas, and it’s only fitting it ends here.
Most of the time, Darris Santee is relaxed and quiet. He seems almost too polite to be a power forward.
Oklahoma sophomore DeMarco Murray isn’t the only former Bishop Gorman running back making a name for himself at a major college football program playing for a coach named Stoops.
Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin cast herself as the heir to feminism’s legacy in her first visit to Southern Nevada on Tuesday, saying if Democrat Barack Obama were serious about respecting women, he would have chosen Hillary Clinton as his running mate.
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Las Vegas police Tuesday revealed the arrest of a man in connection with the kidnapping of 6-year-old Cole Puffinburger.
Days away from the Halloween launch of Cirque du Soleil’s $100 million gamble on magic, Criss Angel is convinced he has a monster hit.
With two weeks to go until Election Day, both Democrats and Republicans questioned what they called suspicious tactics aimed at voters.
A truck driver who last year obtained a pile of confidential documents that included personal information about Harrah’s Entertainment patrons contacted the casino company and told executives he wanted to do the right thing, one Harrah’s employee said.
Prosecutors have decided not to press charges in the case of the 4-month-old girl who was mauled to death by her family’s two pit bulls last month.
Three Clark County District Court judges have been selected to hear legal cases that might arise on Election Day.
CARSON CITY — The Reno Gazette-Journal filed a public records lawsuit against Gov. Jim Gibbons on Tuesday, seeking a court order compelling Gibbons to release certain e-mail correspondence under Nevada’s public records law.
CARSON CITY — A request to the Nevada Supreme Court to reconsider an earlier decision that kept a proposal to cap property taxes off the November ballot has been rejected.
A hefty federal grant will help fill vacated houses cropping up like desert weeds in Clark County, an area hit hard by foreclosures.
A 32-year-old woman was sexually assaulted early Sunday morning after a man got in her car at a Henderson intersection and forced her at gunpoint to drive to a nearby park where the assault occurred, police said.
This week readers want to know about the construction on U.S. Highway 95, between Russell and Sunset roads; whether there are any laws governing jogging or walking in the streets; and who handles road kill in the valley.
Seven Las Vegas members of the Mongols motorcycle gang were arrested Tuesday as part of a seven-state sweep that shattered its two local chapters, police said.
Overheard, seen, yelled or scrawled on signs at Sarah Palin’s rally Tuesday at the Henderson Pavilion:
They loved their Sarah on Tuesday afternoon at the Henderson Pavilion.
WASHINGTON — Nevada Sen. John Ensign, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, on Tuesday acknowledged Democrats have a chance to reach 60 seats in the Senate on Nov. 4, which would allow them to pass legislation over the objections of Republicans.
RENO — Clark County Family Court Judge Nicholas Del Vecchio was removed from office Tuesday by the Commission on Judicial Discipline after he admitted to numerous sexual improprieties, including having sex in hotels with a staff member during working hours.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — It’s one of the largest contract awards in the history of the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Kingman District that covers all of Mohave County.