Mitchell eager for larger role

For most of the past month, DeShawn Mitchell has been seated on the bench as if stuck by glue. When the UNLV freshman gets up, it’s to be a cheerleader or to check in and watch the final seconds tick off the clock.

Affliction card finds date, home

After a cancellation, a venue change and a new business partner, Affliction MMA has finally scheduled an 11-fight card Jan. 24 at Anaheim, Calif., more than six months after its debut event there.

Bonanza girls take down Shadow Ridge

Bonanza’s girls already had speed, accurate shooting and a pesky defense on their side.

Another Curry scoring big

With all the attention his older brother, Stephen, has received at Davidson, it’s hard to imagine how Seth Curry flew under the radar of college basketball recruiters.

IN BRIEF

BASEBALL

ON TV/RADIO

BASKETBALL

Police seek stolen car used in homicide

A getaway car spotted at the scene of a slaying in morning traffic last week was stolen, Las Vegas police said Monday.

Nevada can’t keep pace

After decades at or near the top of the national heap, Nevada has tumbled to eighth on the list of fastest-growing states.

Rain forecast in valley on Christmas

Dreams of a white Christmas in the Las Vegas Valley will be dashed by rain and wind, according to forecasters who predict a wet weather system will arrive by Wednesday.

Petitions challenge Yucca license bid

Following Nevada’s lead, Clark County and a nonprofit Timbisha Shoshone corporation filed petitions Monday challenging the Department of Energy’s license application for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.

IN BRIEF

ACCIDENTAL DRIVEWAY DEATH

Fatalities on roads declining

CARSON CITY — Believe it or not, there was a silver lining to paying $4 a gallon for gasoline last summer: People cut down on unnecessary driving and far fewer of them died in accidents on Nevada’s highways and roads.

CORRECTIONS

The origin of two quotes was incorrect in a listing of the top quotes of the year in the Dec. 15 edition of the Review-Journal.

Schoolkids could select state insect

CARSON CITY — First off, kids, black widow spiders have eight legs, and that makes them arachnids, not insects, so they are out of the running in the contest to pick Nevada’s official state insect.

Enter the Encore

Las Vegas’ biggest snowstorm in 30 years kept Courtland Campbell and his friends in town long enough to attend the opening of the $2.3 billion Encore on Monday night.  
Slideshow

Ol’ Ed Goedhart had a bill … EIEIO!

There might be 50 ways to leave your lover, but even Albert Einstein himself would have trouble adding up all the excuses the left uses to explain why so many of the government-run schools suck eggs.

Easy money

Problems inherent in the October rush by Congress to “do something” about the faltering economy have now become patently obvious.

California schemin’

Lisa Torti and her former friend Alexandra Van Horn worked together at a San Fernando Valley department store in 2004. They and three co-workers went out to a bar on Halloween for a night of drinking and dancing, departing at 1:30 the following morning in two cars.

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