The coroner’s office hasn’t found a next of kin for the man who committed suicide 12 days ago in the parking lot at the iconic Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada sign.
ELY — Jordan Barrett didn’t expect to play this football season, and he certainly didn’t expect to play tight end. … UNLV signed the three-star recruit to be a linebacker. He was rated by three recruiting services as among the nation’s best at that position. … But the Rebels have a logjam at linebacker, and they could use some help at tight end, a position Barrett (6 feet 3 inches, 225 pounds) also played at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, Calif.
FARGO, N.D. — Bishop Gorman couldn’t finish two games Sunday, and that ended the Titans’ hopes of repeating as American Legion World Series champions.
Albuquerque outfielder Mitch Jones enjoyed playing for Las Vegas at Cashman Field, which was constructed in 1983. But he said the aging ballpark pales in comparison to his new home, state-of-the-art Isotopes Park, which was built in 2003.
Bryce Harper hasn’t been obsessing over whether he’ll be eligible for the 2010 draft.
Dr. Conrad Murray took his stripper girlfriend to meet Michael Jackson in Las Vegas two years ago.
What gilded lives luminaries lead, kissed by fate, enraptured by pedestrians in corridors that are cathedrals to celebrities.
Contractors last week started work on a small section of a Las Vegas pedestrian trail, one of four ongoing projects that, when finished, will mean the city’s overall trail network is about 25 percent complete.
A 39-year-old man died Sunday after being involved in an early morning dispute in the northwest valley, Las Vegas police said.
RENO — Even a longtime state historian who isn’t surprised by much finds it odd that U.S. District Judge Brian Sandoval is resigning from the bench, opening the possibility that he will return to Nevada politics.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority board on Thursday will vote on whether to continue preparations for a multibillion-dollar pipeline network to tap groundwater in rural valleys across eastern Nevada. Pipeline opponents, including some from Snake Valley, are expected to make a splash at the important meeting.
A Nevada earthquake monitoring station reported a moderate jolt early Sunday, but the U.S. Geological Survey and a Utah station say they have no record of such a temblor.
CARSON CITY — U.S. Sen. John Ensign, dogged by ethics questions and repercussions within his own party after divulging an affair with a staffer’s wife and his parents’ $96,000 payout to the woman’s family, hopes to find some refuge this week in Lake Tahoe.
RENO — Mountain bikers with a need for speed and thrills have made Lake Tahoe the latest front in a battle over the illegal construction of bike trails in national forests and other public lands.
Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., removed a big political hurdle between Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and a fifth consecutive term in the U.S. Senate. Himself.
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of schools are heeding the government’s call to set up flu-shot clinics this fall, preparing for what could be the most widespread school vaccinations since the days of polio.
A former Army doctor who served in Iraq, Dr. Jason Newsom returned home to Panama City, Fla., a few years ago and took a $140,000-a-year job running the Bay County Health Department.
