KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Jodie Meeks was just trying to get a victory. He didn’t fathom having a chance at earning a spot among Kentucky’s greatest players.
In a head-to-head matchup of two of the top sophomore guards in Class 2A, Mountain View’s Justyn Anderson and Lincoln County’s Dantley Walker scored 31 points apiece Tuesday night.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A scratch on the bridge of Rene Rougeau’s nose shows evidence of rough play. He was hit while battling for a rebound, he said, and it’s no big deal. Rougeau and his UNLV teammates get a chance to bully Colorado State at 6 p.m. today at Moby Arena.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons and Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto clashed Tuesday when the governor objected to paying the legal expenses of former Nuclear Projects Agency Executive Director Bob Loux.
Pesky quagga mussels that can clog water pipes and marine equipment at lakes Mead and Mohave are multiplying at an eye-popping rate.
This week readers want to know about the construction on Rampart Boulevard near Summerlin Parkway, what’s the best way to get from the College of Southern Nevada’s West Charleston Boulevard campus to the Cheyenne Avenue campus and how long will it take to clean graffiti from a sign on Interstate 15?
WASHINGTON — Steven Chu said Tuesday that as energy secretary he will pursue the “best possible scientific analysis” to chart the disposal of the nation’s nuclear waste, without saying what he plans to do about the proposed Yucca Mountain repository.
CARSON CITY — A move to close the old Nevada State Prison was delayed Tuesday on a 2-1 vote by the state Prison Board, with Gov. Jim Gibbons, who leads the panel, casting the dissenting vote.
The elderly patient who fatally shot Dr. Edna Makabenta at her office Monday and then turned the gun on himself filed a medical complaint against her earlier this month, Las Vegas police and a state medical official said Tuesday.
The son of the former owner of the Crazy Horse Too topless cabaret will avoid jail time in a 2007 extortion and stabbing case.
CARSON CITY — A new state survey has found state workers earn 7.8 percent less in pay than selected private employees in Nevada and other government employees in the West.
I can almost see the hand-wringing, shortly followed by whispered laments.
If Mayor Oscar Goodman‘s endangered Mob Museum doesn’t survive, a knockoff could surface at Caesars Palace.
Authorities ordered a North Las Vegas day care to temporarily cease operations after a 1-year-old boy drowned in a backyard pool Tuesday afternoon.
A new year brings new things. Some good, some less predictable.
CARSON CITY — Legislators and the governor should increase the rainy day fund and other budget reserves in good economic times, which would limit the need for massive spending cuts during recessions, according to a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce report.
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman struck an aggressive tone in his State of the City address Tuesday, saying that continued investment in downtown projects was necessary to sustain the economy in the short term and improve the city in the long term.
The airfare map in Sunday’s Travel section contained an error. The fare to Denver is $138.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons predicted Tuesday that only a small number of state employees will be laid off if legislators approve the 6 percent salary cuts he will propose at 6 p.m. Thursday in his televised State of the State address.
Calling a rare Sunday procedural vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., moved the U.S. Senate closer to passing a 1,300-page lands bill that would allocate $5 million in federal tax dollars on botanical gardens in Hawaii and Florida and $3.5 million to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the founding of St. Augustine in 2015 — and place an additional 2 million acres in nine states off limits for any productive economic use by labeling them “wilderness” and/or declaring new and additional rivers to be wild and scenic.
What single act makes governments seem downright benevolent? Cutting a check directly to the taxpayer.
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Bagel Cafe Express, Suncoast, 9090 Alta Drive, received 20 demerits Dec. 29. Violations included no sanitizer available at three-compartment sink. GRADE: B