Strikeforce put on one of its biggest cards to date on Showtime on Saturday night, but the young organization made just as much of a splash with a fight announcement during the broadcast.
A decision that would play a major role in the course of his life faced Ryan Thornton three years ago. He had two choices, and one was very tempting.
In a 2002 draft that featured future major league All-Stars Prince Fielder, Cole Hamels and Scott Kazmir, the Pittsburgh Pirates made 51s pitcher Bryan Bullington the No. 1 overall pick.
You might be proud of the patio cover you built or the plumbing you installed using a how-to handbook.
The Dawson Center was misidentified in a May 31 story about private schools and a Week in Review item. The Dawson Center is an educational outreach program. It is supported by the Alexander Dawson Foundation, the same foundation that also supports the Dawson schools in Las Vegas and Boulder, Colo.
Las Vegas police found two men dead of multiple gunshot wounds Monday in an apartment complex on Decatur Boulevard, near Flamingo Road.
“How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” the old joke begins.
In a decision that could affect Nevada’s judges, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that elected judges must step aside when huge campaign contributions from interested parties create the appearance of bias.
CARSON CITY — The state Supreme Court has begun developing rules to carry out the just-approved law that could save some Nevadans from losing their homes to foreclosure.
A native New Yorker arrested in connection with a threat on May 27 to kill President Barack Obama made a similar threat a week earlier when he visited his father’s former workplace, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
Brenda Miramontes was wide awake before dawn Monday thinking about her slain son. … A year ago Monday, 18-year-old David Miramontes died in a hail of gunfire at Bob Baskin Park during a drive-by shooting. He was sitting in a parked car when a bullet struck him in the head. … Brenda Miramontes thought about that at 3 a.m., the time her son was slain.
While judging the president’s speech in Cairo, Egypt, last week a “success” overall, Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., said Monday she strongly disagrees with two major points on Israel policy that President Barack Obama articulated in his major address to the Muslim world.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons signed into law Monday a bill that makes it a felony to intentionally view child pornography over the Internet.
The Review-Journal’s anonymous “grade the legislators” survey, conducted after each regular session of the Legislature, has all the suspense of a homecoming ballot. Like the ever-popular jocks and princesses, lawmakers who embrace process and bigger government get the crowns. Like the geeks and burnouts, no one who favors principle and smaller government will fare well … or even be asked to dance.
Donald McGhan, 75, the former chairman of a financial company that failed while owing $95 million to real estate investors, pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to four counts of wire fraud. His guilty plea agreement calls for a prison term of eight to 10 years.
Bob and Debbie Roberts walked the car lot Monday at United Jeep Chrysler dealership in Las Vegas looking for one of those great deals they saw advertised on television.
At 27 years old, Julie Taber was loving life. She was young, beautiful, a dance performer on the Strip, but what started off as flu-like symptoms and fatigue landed Taber in the hospital on a Valentine’s Day, and at that moment Taber’s life changed forever.
Green Valley High School’s graduating seniors adopted “Impossible is Nothing” as their class motto. The slogan could apply to LaQuan Phillips. Partially paralyzed during a football game Sept. 5, he walked across the stage Tuesday at the Thomas & Mack Center to receive his high school diploma.
