The Las Vegas franchise in the fledgling United Football League doesn’t have a nickname, nor has it sold a ticket. But it appears to have a starting quarterback.
Gary Bettman has a job, so it’s not as if the NHL commissioner was running for some political office when speaking hypothetically this week.
Coronado graduate Michaelanne Laurent was named the Gatorade Nevada Girls Track Athlete of the Year.
Reprising his “hot stick” celebration, Alex Ovechkin turned the NHL’s Hart Memorial Trophy into the “Hot Trophy” on Thursday at the NHL Awards show inside the Pearl Theater at the Palms.
Chuck Trickle expects to be around Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s Bullring for many more years, but Saturday is the last time he expects to be driving a race car at the track.
The one sure thing in horse racing is there are no sure things. This was proven again by Indian Blessing in the Desert Stormer Handicap at Hollywood Park on Sunday.
When a major league team loses its entire starting rotation to injury, that’s trouble.
Pamela Morales’ brother lost his right hand in an accident more than 20 years ago.
Comedian Joe Rogan provides color commentary for the UFC, so he has befriended many fighters. He says the best fighters are the nicest guys. And they attract groupies as much as rock stars do.
GREELEY, Colo. — A former Greeley man was arrested Thursday in Las Vegas on suspicion of murder in the death of his estranged wife in Greeley 14 years ago.
The Clark County School District bus driver arrested this week after a 5-year-old girl said he sexually abused her in her home was the subject of previous complaints from several students who alleged that he touched them, according to a police report.
Former Clark County Commissioner Dario Herrera was hammered with a 50-month prison sentence after a jury convicted him of charges related to accepting bribes from a Las Vegas strip club owner.
The outgoing leader of the state’s higher ed system: loud.
A story about new Las Vegas Councilman Stavros Anthony in Thursday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal contained an incorrect council vote tally on a proposal to include in the minutes the fact that the state Taxation Department had approved the city’s plan to seek $276 million to build a new city hall. The vote was 5-1, with Anthony opposed.
A 25-year-old reputed gang member was arrested in New Mexico on Tuesday and awaits extradition to Southern Nevada in connection with the slaying of a 21-year-old man beaten to death during a gang initiation known as “jumping in,” U.S. Marshals said.
Alex Ovechkin, the NHL’s most valuable player, doesn’t get stopped very often.
CARSON CITY — During the 2009 legislative session, Nevada lawmakers cracked down on gang members trying to recruit minors and required school districts to establish policies barring criminal gang activity on school grounds.
When hundreds of Nevada Army National Guard soldiers deploy to help fight the nation’s wars on terrorism, they are often sent for weeks at a time to Camp Roberts, Calif., to complete small arms training before they head overseas.
There’s no time like the present for embattled Sen. John Ensign to clear up the “extortion” leak associated with his strange and sudden adultery admission.
Sen. John Ensign helped his mistress’s husband get two jobs during the time the Republican senator acknowledges carrying on an extramarital affair, an Ensign spokesman said Thursday.
There apparently was so little opposition Thursday to a once-controversial UNLV hate crimes policy that the leader of the committee that ordered the policy to be written in the first place practically had to beg for naysayers.
Teachers would get their pay raises — but not cost-of-living raises — for the next fiscal year in a tentative deal reached between the Clark County School District and the teachers union Thursday.