If the spotlight is turned on, UNLV sophomore Tre’Von Willis is not about to run from it. He wants to be in the middle of it.
Centennial’s boys basketball team has played a rugged early schedule, having only one home game out of its first 12.
Rashad Evans has never known what it’s like to leave the Octagon a loser.
Under the steady guidance of low-key coach Lon Kruger, the UNLV men’s basketball team has enjoyed a return to prominence in recent years, earning two straight trips to the NCAA Tournament.
Pairing a rookie quarterback with a first-year head coach once was thought to be a formula for failure in the NFL. But with Matt Ryan throwing the passes and Mike Smith calling the shots, the Atlanta Falcons fooled everybody this season.
Alaska center Alexandre Imbeault had a hat trick before the second period was over.
It’s finally Week 17, and, shockingly, 10 of the 16 games on today’s NFL menu have playoff ramifications.
Vegas knows weird. Maybe it’s something in the water or that so many of us prefer to drink something other than water (this means you, Mr. Mayor). When bizarre stuff happens, it usually happens here.
Who says the media crave scandal and corruption? That we print nothing but bad news because we want to sell papers?
A Fry’s Electronics executive who has been making headlines for embezzling more than $60 million to support his gambling habit isn’t close to being the No. 1 deadbeat high roller.
When an American dies in combat, the warrior’s loss leaves a hole in American hearts.
Sixty-one U.S. military personnel with ties to Nevada have died in the nation’s wars overseas since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The soldiers, Marines, sailor and airmen are the following:
RENO — A freight train derailed in Northern Nevada, triggering a bridge collapse and major disruptions in rail service on one of the country’s main east-west lines, Union Pacific officials said.
RENO — Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki has established a legal defense fund to cover costs associated with his indictment on charges stemming from his handling of a multibillion-dollar college savings program while serving as state treasurer.
Talk about depressing. No, not the sorry state of the economy or the fact housing prices are in the dumper.
Now that the day of peace-on-earth-goodwill-toward-men is behind us, let’s waste no time getting back to the really important things in life: like ridiculing our elected representatives.
With Democrats holding a veto-proof majority in the state Assembly, it’s unlikely Republicans can get much done in the lower chamber when lawmakers reconvene next year.
UNR professor Elliot Parker, a teacher of economics, presented his case last week for more tax hikes, without which Nevada will not be able to hire more government employees and give them higher wages.
As we cling by our fingertips to the eaves of the old year, before we drop into the vast unknown of the new one, it is tradition to reflect on the past year, as the Review-Journal is doing today by offering our take on the Top Ten stories of 2008 in various categories, everything from sports to business, from concerts to news.
On Dec. 12, the Clark County School Board voted to move forward with budget adjustments that “will hurt kids,” one member of the panel lamented.
Progress comes only incrementally. No one is perfect. Don’t insist on perfection at risk of undoing the incrementally good. Inclusiveness is better than judgmental polarization. Tolerance of disagreement is a good thing.