Vegas PBS, the Las Vegas-based public television station now in its 40th year, hopes to convert its boxes of historical film and videotape to digital format and make it all available online. The nonprofit organization is seeking a federal grant and hopes to make some money by selling some of its treasure trove of images to private companies.
The Reno Aces rocked 51s starter David Purcey for four runs in each of the first two innings en route to a 9-5 Pacific Coast League home victory Saturday night.
Brock Lesnar solidified himself as the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s heavyweight champion Saturday night.
Marcus Banks, who has had a well-traveled NBA career since coming into the league in 2003, faces an uncertain future with the Toronto Raptors.
This really does make perfect sense, that the new, big (really big) thing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship is our very own version of Ivan Drago.
From the moment the Los Angeles Clippers won the NBA Draft Lottery in May, Blake Griffin has been preparing.
The card was supposed to be the opening act this weekend for the headline performer. But when an injury forced Floyd Mayweather Jr. to postpone his welterweight fight with Juan Manuel Marquez, it had the stage to itself.
With a nod to this week’s All-Star Game, Hollywood.com’s Tom Leupp ranks the star power of America’s top sports:
A monster challenge faced Frank Mir in the Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight title fight Saturday. Mir was a big underdog to Brock Lesnar, and the betting line turned out to be right.
It was beginning to look like the worst was over for U.S. Sen. John Ensign. But a rash of new revelations last week complicated the political picture for the Nevada Republican, who last month disclosed an extramarital affair with a former staffer.
CityCenter Chief Executive Officer Bobby Baldwin, who won the World Series of Poker in 1978, is poised for his best showing in the game’s signature tournament in 15 years.
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted last week to require the government to speed work on security fences being built along the U.S. border with Mexico.
If he wasn’t down to his last $600, if he hadn’t lost his $1.2 million-dollar house on a golf course, if his Corvette hadn’t been repossessed, if he hadn’t been convicted of a felony, if he hadn’t lost his medical license, if he wasn’t going through a divorce, if he didn’t have to go to prison, then, Stephen Seldon said, his life would be more enjoyable.
Joseph “Pat” Lamoureux couldn’t erase from his mind the sight of the young Iraqi girl walking up to his heavy equipment transport truck and blowing herself up.
WASHINGTON — After nearly eight years of war, soldiers are not the only ones experiencing mental anguish. Their children are, too.
In the latest twist in a widening scandal, a lawyer for U.S. Sen. John Ensign revealed Thursday that Ensign’s parents paid his mistress and her family $96,000 after learning of the affair.
In February 2007, at the tail end of a chaotic NBA All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas, a shooting outside the Minxx Gentlemen’s Club and Lounge paralyzed a bouncer and injured two others. As the accused Minxx shooter awaits trial, the Review-Journal, in a three-part series, revisits the crime and explores the ups and downs of the police investigation that followed the shooting.
At the conclusion of this series, look for videos and an interactive timeline of events leading to the arrest in the Minxx shooting at reviewjournal.com.
A Michael Jackson benefit concert is being held Aug. 29 at the Palms, on what would have been Jackson’s 51st birthday.
MEXICAN NATIONALS WHO RECENTLY WERE ARRESTED for holding illegal immigrants hostage until they could pay their inflated smuggling fee made threatening phone calls to the captives’ relatives.
The North Las Vegas Police Chief’s Advisory Council meets at 5 p.m. in the Police Department Training Auditorium, 1301 E. Lake Mead Blvd
A 4-year-old boy drowned in an apartment complex pool Saturday afternoon.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
Fiery wrong-way crash kills 2 on 215 Beltway in northwest Las Vegas
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school
Mystery deepens: Monolith outside Vegas may have been in desert for years
Woman arrested after police say she climbed on Reno craps table, threw chips at people