•The federal agency that operates Hoover Dam was misidentified in Jane Ann Morrison’s Monday column. It is the Bureau of Reclamation. Also, the column inaccurately stated that the dam is the largest concrete structure in the world.
It’s the first week of December, and that means it’s time to start getting worked up about the failings of the Bowl Championship Series.
UNLV football coach Mike Sanford met with athletic director Mike Hamrick for two hours Monday to discuss the state of the program, but there was no news of a contract extension.
Skiing in the Alps and traveling to Paris and Switzerland was an experience “second to none” for Wranglers center Chris Neiszner, who, after playing two years in Las Vegas, spent last season playing in France’s top professional league for Morzine-Avoriaz.
Fifteen minutes after Monday’s practice, UNLV senior Wink Adams still was shooting jumpers. He was making most of them, too. “Constantly shooting,” Adams said when asked how he plans to emerge from one of the worst slumps of his career.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — There was a time not long ago when people couldn’t turn inside the Wild Card Boxing Club and not see an image of Oscar De La Hoya.
When comedian Ron White performs Friday and Saturday at The Mirage, he’ll be showing up as a low-level criminal suspect.
In its biggest electric rate case since the aftermath of the energy crisis in 2001, NV Energy on Monday proposed a 17.5 percent increase in local residential rates, starting Sept. 1.
Like the blind wise men who finally get around to correctly identifying the elephant, the National Bureau of Economic Research declared Monday that the U.S. economy is in recession — and has been since last December.
Monday’s announcement that the economy has spent 2008 wallowing in recession didn’t surprise local researchers or business owners.
CARSON CITY — Nevada is now experiencing the worst of times as far as tax revenues go, concluded the state’s Economic Forum on Monday.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s picks got an approving reaction from Nevada’s three Democrats who will serve in the new Congress.
A federal court hearing has been postponed for up to 90 days for the grandfather of a 6-year-old Las Vegas boy who was abducted in October.
A husband and wife found dead in what is believed to be a murder-suicide in their Las Vegas home on Thanksgiving Day have been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office as Jacob Levin, 62, and Susan Levin, 59.
Assistant Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said Monday that his office has no plans to exhume the body of James “Buffalo Jim” Barrier for further testing.
WASHINGTON — Rather than approve billions of dollars in new spending to stimulate the economy, Congress should use money that has not yet been spent from a $700 billion financial bailout bill that passed in October, Sen. John Ensign said Monday.
A Las Vegas lawyer was sentenced to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
CARSON CITY — State and local officials in Nevada said they’re seeing an increasing number of domestic horses being turned loose because their owners can no longer afford to care for them.
Nevada dodged a $70 million financial setback Monday when the state Tax Commission denied Southern California Edison a rebate for using out-of-state coal at its now closed Laughlin power plant.
RENO — A lawyer for environmentalists and tribal activists told a federal judge Monday that the government’s approval of a big gold mine was flawed and would prohibit the Western Shoshone from practicing religious rites on a mountain in Northern Nevada.
A 21-year-old man accused of fatally shooting another man in a gang slaying pleaded guilty Monday, the day his trial was to begin.
RENO — Rep. Dean Heller asked the Pentagon on Monday to open a new U.S. Army investigation into the death of a Nevada soldier killed in Iraq two years ago to determine whether he might have been a victim of friendly fire.
A juror who wrote sexually explicit letters to a defendant in a murder trial and then visited him at the county jail didn’t commit jury misconduct, a judge said Monday.
The celebration of an accused killer’s conviction was bittersweet for almost a dozen friends and relatives of slain Las Vegas businessman John Herda.
