Many students use high school to explore interests that might eventually lead to a career.
PHOENIX — Bruce Snyder, whose 20-year career as a college football coach included an unbeaten regular season at Arizona State, has died after a 10-month fight against cancer.
UNLV has sent many golfers on to the PGA Tour, but none has won a major tournament.
At 4-1 in the Northeast League, Las Vegas High’s softball team fully expects to reach the Class 4A Sunrise Region playoffs.
When he talks about the United States, Sergio L. Perez often uses the word “prosperity.”
I’m a bum, a mope, a know-nothing jerk.
CARSON CITY — The sale of novelty lighters would be outlawed in Nevada under a bill approved 28-12 Monday in the state Assembly.
LOS ANGELES — Marilyn Chambers, the pretty Ivory Snow soap girl who helped bring hard-core adult films into the mainstream consciousness when she starred in the explicit 1972 movie “Behind the Green Door,” has died at 56.
Nevada’s lieutenant governor asked a judge on Monday to disqualify the state attorney general, who’s prosecuting him on charges of mishandling a big college savings program, and to dismiss the charges.
Penn & Teller are agents for charity this week. On Wednesday morning, the Rio headliners will donate suits to Goodwill in a publicity push to help needy job seekers.
Durango High School students gave a spring performance of Shakespeare’s comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” but they’re expecting next year to be a tragedy.
CARSON CITY — Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio on Monday pitched the need for a state-financed tax study, noting that one hasn’t been performed in 20 years.
A panicked husband called 911 in 2006 to report that his wife had drowned in a bathtub.
A Saville Middle School counselor was arrested this weekend on a charge of lewdness with a minor involving explicit text messages to a 13-year-old female student, an arrest report obtained Monday said.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Senate’s top Democrat told lawmakers Monday that a new program for low-risk parole violators and drug and alcohol offenders would reduce the state’s prison population and save millions of dollars in taxpayer money.
Jane Ann Morrison’s column in Monday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal contained an error. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld U.S. District Judge James Mahan’s dismissal of a securities case against Daniel Chapman, Sean Flanagan and Herbert Jacobi. The case is closed, not unresolved as stated in the column.
Another below-average year on the Colorado River will soon shrink Lake Mead to a level not seen since President Lyndon Johnson unveiled his “Great Society” and the Beatles bared their “Rubber Soul.”
The state Supreme Court dealt a blow to anti-smoking forces Monday when it declined to stop lawmakers from weakening Nevada’s smoking ban.
The Nevada Legislature has cleared the first of several nonbinding deadlines, a Friday milestone intended to purge the Capitol of hundreds of bills that lacked support in their committees of origin.
