David Lutomski was on vacation when his Silverado teammates won their first three games in the National Invitational tournament at Durango.
On his self-improvement checklist, UNLV forward Darris Santee has a few goals he wants to reach. “Rebounding, defense, offense,” he said, prioritizing the three properly in terms of the Rebels’ needs, intentionally or not. “I think I can do everything better. I want to be a better all-around player.” Now is when the team needs him to be at his best.
BOISE, Idaho — The wash of blue that engulfs Bronco Stadium on game days is supposed to be a sea of intimidation for opponents.
Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of “The Greatest Game Ever Played” — the Baltimore Colts’ overtime victory over the New York Giants in the 1958 NFL Championship Game.
• A story in Sunday’s business section contained an error. Herbst Gaming is still negotiating a new financial arrangement with its bond holders.
From the day a decade ago that Omar Siddiqui emerged as a Strip high roller, speed defined his casino persona.
Nye County sheriff’s deputies were searching for a man wanted in connection with the robbery and slaying of a Pahrump convenience store clerk Sunday.
Two teen brothers strangled a Henderson music teacher so they could take his electronics, including two laptop computers, an iPod and a Wii video game system, according to an arrest report.
Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Doug Gillespie on Monday praised the poise of three officers who were shot Sunday night while serving a narcotics search warrant in Henderson.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A new coalition is targeting at least five states, including Nevada, with proposed measures requiring that union elections be conducted by secret ballots.
Last week, Fergie and I were talking about how she’s put on 15 pounds for a film role (I’ll tell you about that in second), when we suddenly started comparing notes about our therapy sessions.
It was once the site of an ugly war between two neighboring businessmen: one a white-haired topless club owner with reputed mob ties, the other a bearded, loud-mouthed mechanic known as Buffalo Jim.
The Nevada State Bureau of Licensure and Certification has closed a Las Vegas group home for the elderly and disabled because it no longer is considered safe, officials said Monday.
A former Sparks mayor and television sports broadcaster is the new executive director of the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Commission on Tourism voted Monday to proceed with its own search for a new agency director, dismissing Gov. Jim Gibbons’ appointment last week of Kirk Montero, who one commissioner said would not have made his top 10 list of candidates.
George Santayana is spinning in his grave. It’s starting to look like Congress learned nothing from the shortcomings of previous “panic” economic bailout and stimulus legislation, as lawmakers rush to repeat their mistakes.
Casino companies will continue to eliminate jobs and struggle with large debt loads as the industry deals with an “unprecedented economic downturn” in the coming year, an annual outlook by independent research firm Spectrum Gaming Group forecasts.
Clark County taxable sales plunged 6.8 percent in October while statewide totals fell 6.2 percent, giving an economist little reason for optimism.
New mortgage applications, driven by requests to refinance at cheaper rates, are on the rise in Las Vegas.
