If you’ve never seen Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s 1936 “You Can’t Take It With You,” then my guess is there are plenty of belly-laughs in store for you in the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Visual and Performing Arts’ production.
Lorena Villamar was down to her last chance to win a Northeast League softball title.
The 51s allowed two runs in the sixth inning and four more in the seventh, losing to the Sacramento River Cats 7-4 Monday night in a Pacific Coast League game in Sacramento, Calif.
Maybe Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton are simply too nice to trash-talk each other. Or maybe the fighters can’t get a word in edgewise amid their trainers’ verbal feud.
During the regular season, the Wranglers had one of the worst power plays in the league, converting a paltry 12.4 percent (44-for-356) of their chances.
Here comes the call from death again, being its ironic self. A fight had just broken out during the Wranglers playoff game Monday evening at the Orleans Arena when the news of Glen Gondrezick’s passing arrived.
A late bloomer in high school, DeShawn Mitchell was viewed as a potential recruiting steal when he signed with UNLV.
When a biochemist intent on suicide injected himself with the deadly poison ricin in 2003, Las Vegas authorities were unprepared and ill-equipped to handle it.
MEXICO CITY — A strong earthquake struck central Mexico on Monday, swaying tall buildings in the capital and rattling nerves in a city already tense from a swine flu outbreak suspected of killing as many as 152 people nationwide
CARSON CITY — About 340 lawyers have volunteered to serve as mediators to work with lenders to keep Nevadans from losing their homes to foreclosure, Nevada Chief Justice Jim Hardesty said Monday.
In his Sunday column, editor Thomas Mitchell mistakenly stated that the 14th Amendment granted suffrage to free slaves. The 14th granted civil rights, while the 15th granted the right to vote.
Efforts to restore populations of endangered humpback chub in the Colorado River Basin appear to be working at one location in the Grand Canyon, a federal biologist said Monday.
Glen Gondrezick, whose hustle earned him recognition as one of the greatest players in UNLV basketball history, died Monday of apparent complications from a heart transplant he received in September.
Mexico appears to be ground zero for the swine flu outbreak, but the biggest fallout for Las Vegas could come from a response that shuts down travel.
CARSON CITY — Changes to speed up workplace safety training for new employees, in efforts to reduce on-the-job deaths and injuries, prompted questions Monday in a Nevada Assembly committee hearing.
The first woman to be charged with child pornography in Nevada’s federal justice system pleaded guilty Monday to receiving pornographic videos and images on her computer.
MEXICO CITY — The swine flu outbreak entered a dangerous new phase Monday as the death toll climbed in Mexico and the number of cases there and in the United States nearly doubled. The World Health Organization raised its alert level but stopped short of declaring a global emergency.
A draft of a proposed UNLV policy aimed at preventing bias and hate crimes was declared dead Monday by the university system chancellor after a public outcry.
Mel B on Monday added her voice to other celebrities’ who are calling for the end of a regime that forces Ugandan children into a life of kidnapping and murder.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid on Monday came out against a proposed gravel quarry that is being battled by residents in the southern end of the Las Vegas Valley.
Plans for a high-speed train that would travel from Nevada to California reached a major milestone last month with the approval of a draft environmental impact study. Now investors want to hear Las Vegas residents’ opinions about the privately funded project.
In another state, legislation such as Senate Bill 292 wouldn’t be controversial. It would be old news.
A Las Vegas justice of the peace on Monday set bail at $250,000 for the man charged in the death of a popular UNLV student and ordered the suspect to surrender his passport and wear an alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet.
Passengers arriving from Mexico City at McCarran International Airport on Monday night described one of the world’s largest cities as a panic-stricken metropolis brought to a standstill by the swine flu outbreak.
In Detroit, Dennis Rodman made a name for himself as a fierce defender. Post-NBA, the eccentric Rodman made headlines for antics such as sporting a wedding dress and for a publicized fling with Madonna.
CARSON CITY — The state has stockpiled medication for treating swine flu should an outbreak occur in Nevada, the governor and state health officials said Monday.