Five boys basketball players from Sierra Vista and three from Bonanza were suspended Monday for their roles in an altercation that occurred during the teams’ game at Bonanza on Friday night.
TAMPA, Fla. — The pilot stuck a team flag out the cockpit window as the Arizona Cardinals landed in a place few ever could have imagined.
Bishop Gorman’s Shabazz Muhammad is only a freshman. He played like a seasoned veteran Monday night.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is not popular in his home state as he heads into his next re-election battle, according to a new poll commissioned by a conservative political action group.
Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith says a subtler approach by Mayor Oscar Goodman might have worked in trying to get federal funds for “The Mob Museum” — officially known as the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement:
Sorry, Oscar. Your museum caught two behind the ear and was stuffed into a trunk in the name of politics. Maybe you should have called it the Stock Market Heritage Museum. It could have made a great score.
CARSON CITY — Unemployed Las Vegas pharmacist Sheik Ellias told legislators Monday he can’t find doctors willing to operate on his two daughters, who both use wheelchairs. Doctors won’t operate on daughters Hannah, 8, and Zaynah, 5, because payments from the state’s Medicaid program won’t cover their actual costs.
Brian Rouff sees his fair share of résumés peppered with mistakes.
Unemployed Las Vegans Steve Fose and Gilberto Torres aren’t asking for much. Fose wants a security-guard job that would earn him perhaps $11 an hour. Torres seeks a warehouse job that might bring in $10 an hour. Both have sought work since fall, with nary a nibble from any prospective employer.
CARSON CITY — A move to close the old Nevada State Prison was questioned Monday by state lawmakers, who demanded more details and said the proposed shutdown might not produce the Gibbons administration’s estimate of a $37 million budget savings.
Speaking from his vantage point as a former Air Force secretary and atomic weapons scientist, Thomas C. Reed said there is plenty to be concerned about in a world where factions bent on destroying American life want to join the nuclear club.
Tyrise M. Bell was the kind of kid his friends’ parents wanted to claim as their own, his family said.
A 39-year-old man accused of killing another man outside a club in North Las Vegas was sentenced to six to 18 years in prison Monday.
RENO — A federal judge ruled Monday a gold mine project could proceed in northeast Nevada despite a bid by a tribe and conservationists to block it on religious and environmental grounds.
An associate of the Rolling 60s Crips who served time for a racketeering conspiracy conviction is back in jail after he was arrested on allegations he raped his mentally challenged teenage daughter.
A card decorated with a hand-drawn pizza was left next to five bouquets of flowers Monday evening in a North Las Vegas neighborhood.
Not only will the state’s higher education system not accept the 36 percent budget cut proposed by Gov. Jim Gibbons, it won’t accept any cuts, the chancellor told a crowd of hundreds Monday night.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — Three young family members from Las Vegas were killed when two vehicles collided and rolled over on U.S. Highway 93 between Hoover Dam and Phoenix on Sunday afternoon.
While still holding “president-elect” status, Barack Obama embraced handing Detroit automakers billions of dollars, calling the corporate bailout “necessary.”
WASHINGTON — Sales of existing homes posted an unexpected increase last month, as consumers snapped up bargain-basement foreclosures in Nevada, California and Florida, closing out the worst year for the U.S. real estate market in more than a decade.
The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce is stepping up its decades-long efforts to reform the state’s public employees’ retirement and benefits programs, which have a combined $10.3 billion unfunded liability.
The 40th version of the World Series of Poker will include a no-limit hold ’em game with a buy-in that marks the tournament’s anniversary.