Moses Morgan and his Palo Verde basketball teammates are one victory from erasing their biggest question mark.
Bishop Gorman’s only real moments of concern Thursday came nearly three minutes into the third quarter.
Bishop Gorman boys basketball coach Grant Rice wouldn’t use Thursday’s game against Hug as an offensive template.
One name jumped off the page when I got my ballot for this year’s horse racing Hall of Fame inductions at Saratoga: Bob Baffert.
Many professional athletes long have claimed they loved their respective sports so much that they would’ve played for nothing.
As his players stormed the field to celebrate amongst a mosh pit of fans, Shadow Ridge girls soccer coach Harvey Robicheau watched speechlessly from the sideline.
Starting safety Daryl Forte and two other UNLV football players have been dismissed from the team.
If you’ve got the big Saturday night ticket, you will see Siegfried & Roy perform for the first time since Roy was mauled by a tiger onstage at The Mirage in 2003.
A year after 15-year-old Christopher Privett was killed in a drive-by shooting near Palo Verde High School, officials praised a safety plan for reducing school violence.
Overheard Thursday at UNLV’s spring career fair, where representatives from 121 companies and hundreds of job seekers mingled.
LOS ANGELES — A jury awarded nearly $7 million to a 56-year-old woman who said she was unknowingly infected with herpes by the 77-year-old founder of a hair care company.
NASCAR champion Tony Stewart was among a handful of drivers who devoted part of Thursday to meeting fans, helping others and promoting this weekend’s racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Many of the day’s public appearances were charitable events.
Higher education Chancellor Jim Rogers won’t be testifying today at an important legislative hearing on budget cuts.
If Dale Earnhardt didn’t win the race, it was rare that anyone beat him out of town.
Nevada’s congressional delegation praised President Barack Obama for making it clear in his budget outline Thursday that the Energy Department’s 20-year, $9 billion effort to study Yucca Mountain and seek a license for a nuclear waste repository there is on its last legs.
CARSON CITY — A Las Vegas assemblyman suggested Thursday that the Legislature float a bond to cover a budget shortfall of nearly $2 billion.
Memo from Frank Cullotta to his critics: Get stuffed.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers advanced a bill Thursday that might make it tougher for convicted sexual offenders to be released from lifetime supervision but would reduce the amount of time offenders have to wait for a hearing on their release.
The budget will be leaner, but the parks will be cleaner, at least when it comes to litter along roads and on public lands in Southern Nevada. That’s one of the aspects of the governor’s proposal for funding Nevada’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for the next two years. A joint Senate-Assembly budget subcommittee is scheduled to review the department’s funding issues today.
CARSON CITY — In testimony Thursday to Nevada lawmakers, state officials listed tough choices they face as a result of Gov. Jim Gibbons’ proposed cuts to mental health services.
A married couple who police say dedicated the past five years to duping valley senior citizens and Asian women out of more than $150,000 have been arrested in what’s known as a “pigeon drop” scam.
ELKO — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a Carlin man convicted in 1994 for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl should be granted a new trial because of questions involving DNA evidence and how it was presented.
One person was killed after he lost control of his car and crashed into a home near the intersection of Sandhill Road and Wyoming Avenue early Thursday.
• Nevada lawmakers rather than the state Ethics Commission would handle any complaints against an Assembly or Senate member alleging an improper vote, under terms of a bill approved Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
An attorney representing Chester Stiles in his sexual assault trial asked that a juror be removed after a woman thought to be the juror’s daughter posted negative comments about the trial on a Florida-based Web site.