If losing to an eight-loss team for the first time wasn’t chilling enough for Notre Dame, the icing came moments before Syracuse upset the Fighting Irish 24-23 Saturday in South Bend, Ind.
While the Ultimate Fighting Championship did not hold a card in its home base of Las Vegas for several months during the second half of 2008, the organization will more than make up for the absence as the year comes to a close.
Wink Adams scored 16 of his 20 points in the second half to push the Rebels to an 80-67 victory over Texas-El Paso before a crowd of 8,912 at the Don Haskins Center.
Pilot error coupled with “aircraft anomalies” sent an F-15D Eagle into a violent spin during air combat training, causing the July 30 jet crash on Nellis Air Force Range, the leader of an Air Force investigation team said Monday.
The Andre Agassi Foundation has gotten a $2.25 million gift to research early childhood education in a state where public funding for pre-kindergarten programs is scarce.
When Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid admonished local reporters to be patient, I had to smile.
The son of District Judge Donald Mosley will be freed from custody pending charges in a fatal Henderson crash, a juvenile court judge ruled Monday.
The man struck and killed by a hit-and-run motorist Friday night was identified Monday by the Clark County coroner’s office as David Gurrola.
CARSON CITY — Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki on Monday accused state Democratic leaders, including U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, of spearheading a move to have a grand jury indict him on charges of mishandling funds when he served as state treasurer.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Monday he is confident he will be able to shepherd the economic stimulus called for by President-elect Barack Obama through the Senate “fairly quickly.”
CARSON CITY — Assembly Minority Leader Heidi Gansert said Monday that Republican candidates drew more votes in the Nov. 4 election than Democrats, yet won just 14 of 42 Assembly seats.
Clark County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly will sponsor free mammograms today and Wednesday for women who do not have health insurance, his office announced on Monday.
The man accused of shooting and killing a former Olympic boxer was assigned a public defender during a brief court hearing Monday.
The estimated jackpot for Wednesday’s Powerball was incorrect in Monday’s Review-Journal. The prize goes to an estimated $15 million for Wednesday.
A 22-year-old man was arrested in connection with the slaying of a young woman whose body was found in a back room of her apartment Sunday.
In what has become an official sign of the holiday season, the bell ringers are back.
Less than a year has passed since Three Square, a local nonprofit dedicated to ending hunger, took over where the shuttered Community Food Bank of Clark County left off.
A program to buy and renovate foreclosed and deteriorated homes and sell them to middle-income residents drew the attention of Gov. Jim Gibbons and banking officials who met Monday at the Sawyer Building in Las Vegas.
RENO — Nevada merchants saw a 5.2 percent drop in taxable sales statewide, but there were some bright spots to an otherwise dour report released Monday by the Nevada Department of Taxation.
Up in Reno, the daily Gazette-Journal believes that if reporters could get a look at e-mails Gov. Jim Gibbons has sent and received on his tax-paid e-mail account, they and their readers could gain a clearer insight into what’s been going on in the governor’s office.
To avert budget cuts that could wipe out entire academic programs, the Board of Regents next week will consider raising tuition and fees at Nevada’s public colleges and universities by 25 percent. If enacted, the increase would make one year of full-time undergraduate study at UNLV cost more than $5,600, which tops the average resident rate for all Western universities.