With a cold wind blowing, most of the participants bundled up in sweats Friday night to play the title-deciding tiebreaker in the Sunrise Region tournament at Darling Tennis Center.
The Las Vegas High football team spent 48 minutes on the field Friday, but it was one particular minute that made most of the difference.
The Barack Obama and John McCain camps have nothing on Antonio Tarver when it comes to hurling insults.
James Stewart raced with a new team and a different motorcycle for the first time Friday night.
If any questions about Cheyenne’s defense remained, they were answered at Legacy on Friday night.
Darra Russell couldn’t quite pinpoint his specialty on the football field.
With the Sunset Region boys tennis title riding on the outcome of his match and his teammates wildly cheering him on Friday, Bonanza singles player Tommy Lettero said “I felt scared for my life.”
Expectations were as high as possible for Florida junior quarterback Tim Tebow this season. As a returning Heisman Trophy winner, that’s no surprise.
Dull moments are few and far between with the Dallas Cowboys, on and off the field, and the stars in the soap opera usually are quarterback Tony Romo and wide receiver Terrell Owens.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons said Friday he may have to call a special session of the Legislature following the Nov. 4 election to deal with a state economy that has dissipated into a recession.
Instead of gathering free-roaming wild horses in Southern Nevada this weekend, Bureau of Land Management officials will attend a gathering of wild horse advocates to discuss what can be done to keep horses and burros crowding Western ranges from being killed by lethal injections.
RENO — The vice presidential selections of Barack Obama and John McCain have little effect on voter preference in Nevada, according to a statewide poll released Friday.
O.J. Simpson was allowed to leave isolation to attend a worship service during his first week in jail, it was learned Friday.
Bob Hechter’s Oak World furniture store on East Flamingo Road flourished under the Clinton administration and is going out of business under the Bush administration.
A photo caption in Friday’s Review-Journal indicated an incorrect location for the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center, home to the new Mojave Max. The Bureau of Land Management says the center is at an undisclosed facility in the south Las Vegas Valley that is not open to the public.
Todd Yocum’s autistic 8-year-old son has had six teachers since he started pre-school at age 3. Only two of them were licensed to teach autistic children, Yocum said, and the rest were substitutes.
Three Bureau of Land Management biologists were held at gunpoint by suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel after stumbling upon a marijuana garden in a remote area of Northern Nevada on Tuesday.
A jury Friday spared the life of the man accused of beating to death his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter and then dumping her in a trash bin. Instead, the jury sentenced Marc Anthony Colon to spend the rest of his life behind bars for the 2006 slaying of Crystal Figueroa, also known as Jane “Cordova” Doe.
North Las Vegas police were searching Friday for a man suspected in an Oct. 3 shooting death at an apartment.
CARSON CITY — The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada has questioned the removal of the only polling machine on the Washoe Tribe’s Dresslerville Reservation in Douglas County, but an election official said the removal was justified because of a low number of voters.
Nevada, it has been said, is critical. Polls are tight. Electoral votes are scarce.
‘Tis a tale of a $1,500 caramel. Another in a continuing series in which I urge you to learn from my many mistakes. Apparently, I will never run out of column topics.