AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — Jimmer Fredette scored 20 points and Jonathan Tavernari 17 as Brigham Young beat Air Force 71-50 on Tuesday, sending the Falcons to their ninth straight loss.
It certainly wasn’t pretty. But it might well have been a prelude to next month’s Mountain West Conference Tournament.
Mark it down as two losses. That’s how big it could translate in the race for a Mountain West Conference regular-season title. That’s how much UNLV needed to finish a job it couldn’t against San Diego State on Tuesday night.
Today is national signing day for college football recruits, but let’s keep this warning in mind: Just because a prospect has committed to a school doesn’t mean he’s going to sign.
When Budweiser Hawkins soared for a breakaway dunk with less than two minutes to play, undermanned Trinity pulled within three points of Spring Mountain on Tuesday.
When it comes to football recruiting, Brigham Young, Texas Christian and Utah own the top three spots in the Mountain West Conference. That leaves the other six teams in the league to fight for No. 4.
A memorable drive directed by quarterback Ben Roethlisberger helped the Pittsburgh Steelers pull out a thrilling Super Bowl victory. But in Nevada, the game was not one for the record books.
Las Vegas hasn’t officially been given a team in the upstart United Football League, but it has a coach who has been to the Super Bowl.
The upcoming municipal election could offer something voters in Henderson haven’t seen much of over the past decade or so: competition.
This week readers want to know if the widening of the Las Vegas Beltway at south Decatur Boulevard is finished; are there any plans to fix the Beltway’s offramp to Charleston Boulevard, and is Central Christian Church helping pay for the Galleria Drive interchange with U.S. Highway 95?
Former Planning Commissioner Ned Thomas on Tuesday became North Las Vegas’ fifth mayoral candidate, revealing his “true grass-roots campaign” on the steps of city hall.
A U.S. magistrate judge threw a wrench into casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s defamation lawsuit against an Israeli businessman last week when she denied Adelson’s request to depose the reporter who wrote the story in which the allegedly inflammatory comments appeared.
A key witness in the Palomino strip club murder case testified Tuesday that the defendants in the trial ordered the slaying of Timothy Hadland, an ex-employee who was bad-mouthing the club to cabdrivers.
Hundreds of employees not showing up to work made Clark County officials happy.
Station Casinos is asking its bondholders to approve a restructuring plan that could see the company emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy by this summer, the locals gaming company announced late Tuesday.
The woman who, along with her husband, is accused of sexually abusing her children was granted $300,000 bail in court Tuesday.
A 28-year-old man who died after being shot earlier this week near Twain Avenue and Swenson Street was identified Tuesday by the Clark County coroner’s office as 28-year-old Atsku Tekle.
To the outside world, bookmakers are like those Easter Island stone idols you see on the Travel Channel: impassive with thousand-mile stares and hearts of granite.
ABC film crews have been in town working on Siegfried & Roy’s farewell show, which will air March 6 on the newsmagazine “20/20.”
While Canada geese, ring-necked ducks and mallards waited for handouts Tuesday at Lorenzi Park, a cormorant seemed uninterested in bread crumbs a visitor tossed into the pond. Instead, the cormorant — along with two dozen others seen at the lake — remained alert for the silvery flash of a rainbow trout.
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CARSON CITY — Senate Taxation Committee Chairman Bob Coffin warned Tuesday that no business will be immune from tax increases if legislators decide the state needs additional revenue to cover essential program costs.
Greg Maddux usually likes to slip into the Thomas & Mack Center, watch UNLV play, and then leave unnoticed. No way that plan was working Tuesday night. Not with a crowd of 14,137 giving him a rousing standing ovation.
A request for $30 million to rid neighborhoods of empty houses will be resubmitted to the federal government, minus a plan to fix up a troubled apartment complex.