SALT LAKE CITY — Luke Nevill dominated in the middle with 19 points, 13 rebounds and three blocked shots as Utah moved closer to the Mountain West Conference title with a 70-60 victory over UNLV on Wednesday at the Huntsman Center.
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It is the dawn of spring in Southern Nevada, the time of year when golfers begin retrieving golf bags from the recesses of the garage and taking practice cuts with invisible clubs to the amusement of their co-workers.
This is for all you local golfers who have been e-mailing me about a golf ruling that you read about. You are all getting very smart on your rules knowledge and knew something was wrong right away.
Back in 2004, everything was coming together for Chris Riley, in all facets of his life.
Chances are you have spent hundreds of dollars on videos, books, range balls and the most recent technology in golf equipment — and have tried numerous gadgets and gimmicks — with little or no success. Chances are you have not improved.
WIMBLEDON, England — Former Wimbledon champions Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf will return to the All England Club in May to try out the playing conditions under the new Centre Court roof.
SAN DIEGO — Jimmer Fredette tied his career high with 28 points and fueled a late 15-0 run as Brigham Young rebounded for a 69-59 win over San Diego State on Tuesday.
Green Valley freshman forward Londyn Lopez never imagined she would score a goal this postseason.
SALT LAKE CITY — UNLV senior Joe Darger admits to no regrets as he reflects on his college career, with the end drawing near. That’s easy for him to say now. But about five years ago, as a high school junior in Riverton, Utah, he faced a tough choice.
The Mountain West Conference announced a change in its security policy that will allow fans to come onto the court at the Thomas & Mack Center to celebrate their team’s tournament championship.
Quiz time: Who is the highest-paid coach at a private university in America? Is it Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski? Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis? Perhaps Stanford women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer?
A man was shot several times and critically wounded Tuesday afternoon near Martin Luther King Boulevard and Washington Avenue.
This week readers want to know whether there are any plans to complete Desert Inn Road in the eastern valley; are there any laws that prohibit panhandling; and what happens when you refuse to sign a traffic citation? And a reader sends in a personalized license plate that shows not everyone is hurting from the lagging economy.
Ten years ago on Valentine’s Day, illusionists Siegfried & Roy met backstage with Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight and his family.
Federal prosecutors have charged two men in last fall’s kidnapping of 6-year-old Cole Puffinburger, who was abducted from his home and held for ransom after his grandfather disappeared with $4 million in drug money.
The mother of a girl who was allegedly molested by Chester Stiles said Tuesday that she was shocked when her daughter, then 6, said the defendant kissed and touched her.
There will be some Federal Emergency Management Agency staffers traveling to Las Vegas in May after all.
A 30-year-old man accused of raping and killing a Boulder City woman was sentenced to several life sentences Tuesday in District Court.
Sixty-four years and one day after Parke Potter helped his fellow Marines fashion a pole out of a pipe they had dug from a rubble pile to fly the first U.S. flag atop Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi, Marines entombed his ashes Tuesday at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City.
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Maybe you thought about becoming a big business tycoon, but were never good with numbers.
CARSON CITY — The state Assembly in a 35-7 vote Tuesday backed a 3 percentage point increase in the room tax in Clark and Washoe counties.
A Henderson home that burned down Tuesday was in an area with deficient fire hydrants, but city officials said the lack of sufficient water pressure did not affect efforts to protect neighboring structures.
A majority of Nevadans think illegal immigration is having a negative effect on the state’s budget, according to a Zogby poll released last week.
CARSON CITY — Police would be permitted to pull over vehicles anytime they believe a driver is not wearing a seat belt under a bill approved 12-9 Tuesday in the Senate.
President Barack Obama might struggle with bipartisanship in Congress, but his speech Tuesday sat well with one Nevada group that included Republicans and Democrats, according to one poll.