The proposed megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton, called off a day earlier, appeared to be back on late Thursday after Pacquiao signed a deal for the May 2 junior welterweight bout at the MGM Grand Garden.
Same as any basketball season, this one has brought UNLV coach Lon Kruger bouts with frustration and moments of satisfaction.
Liberty’s boys basketball team shot 50 percent from the field in the third quarter Thursday.
The nation’s economic downturn has forced two ECHL franchises — the Augusta (Ga.) Lynx and Fresno (Calif.) Falcons — to fold this season, but midway through their sixth season in Las Vegas, the Wranglers appear to be on solid ground.
Laughlin is a short drive from B.J. Baldwin’s home in Las Vegas, but the 29-year-old has traveled many miles of dusty, rock-strewn roads to reach the pinnacle of off-road racing.
The 10th annual Daily Racing Form/National Thoroughbred Racing Association National Handicapping Championship will be today and Saturday at Red Rock. The purse is $1 million, with a first-place prize of $500,000.
Molly Sullivan‘s dream is to follow Erin Andrews and Bonnie Bernstein to ESPN.
RENO — Brandon Fields and Luke Babbitt each scored 19 points as UNR defeated Hawaii 74-63 Thursday.
The worst year on record for the Las Vegas housing market is over, and the question now is whether it can sink any deeper in 2009.
RENO — Access to a mountain some tribal members consider hallowed ground and the impact on water resources was the focus of testimony Thursday as a hearing continued to determine whether a massive gold mine project in northeast Nevada should be allowed to proceed.
CARSON CITY — State Budget Director Andrew Clinger told legislators Thursday they face a horrendous choice: Cut salaries by 6 percent and approve other reductions proposed by Gov. Jim Gibbons or lay off 10,000 workers.
As a couple, Jeffrey Preciado and Kimberly Long were a wreck. Both were using drugs and alcohol and the police had been called out to their house several times for domestic disturbances, according to Preciado.
The days of apathy at UNLV were declared dead shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday. A crowd of thousands crammed into the middle of UNLV’s campus to rant, rave and scream out against what they see as devastating state budget cuts.
Thomas Mitchell Blog: UNLV rally as persuasive as a temper tantrum
Rally video
For 110 members of Green Valley High School’s marching band, it doesn’t get any better than this:
One person was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting in northeast Las Vegas Thursday afternoon.
Pentagon officials said Thursday they have decided not to court-martial a civilian contract employee from Las Vegas who had been restricted to an air base in Iraq since November when Air Force investigators suspected him of setting fire to a Predator unmanned spy plane.
Lundy Elementary School on Mount Charleston and Goodsprings Elementary School near the California border were reprieved Thursday by the Clark County School Board, which voted to postpone a decision on closing the two rural sites for a year.
Two men were shot Thursday night in a trailer park in North Las Vegas, and one of the victims died.