For Jesus Magdaleno, it would be quite a hat trick. For Michael Hunter, it would be a sweet daily double.
It was not the Super Bowl, not even close, but Nick Davila accomplished something Saturday night that only two players in NFL history have done. He won a championship as a left-handed quarterback.
The Northwest Girls Softball League held its fall draft the past few days, and more than 800 players were distributed among nearly 80 teams.
SONOMA, Calif. — Team Penske No. 3 driver Will Power broke two vertebrae in his lower back and sustained a concussion Saturday after crashing into Nelson Philippe of Conquest Racing during a practice session for the Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma.
BRISTOL, Tenn. — Kyle Busch finally was able to shake that anger.
The first-string defense is supposed to stop the second-string offense, and that was precisely what UNLV’s starters did Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
There aren’t many points in sports that we all can agree upon, but Leftovers believes it has found one: Enough about Shaquille O’Neal and his new reality-comedy show, “Shaq VS.”
Salt Lake batters roughed up 51s starter Fabio Castro, scoring eight runs on eight hits in the first inning, en route to an 8-3 Pacific Coast League victory Saturday night in Salt Lake City.
It’s the highest stakes ever for a Nevada election, and former boxer Sen. Harry Reid is on the ropes early. Either Republican Danny Tarkanian or Sue Lowden would knock out Reid in a general election, according to a recent poll of Nevada voters. The results suggest the Democratic Senate majority leader will have to punch hard and often in order to retain his position as the most accomplished politician in state history, in terms of job status. Nevadans favored Tarkanian over Reid 49 percent to 38 percent and Lowden over Reid 45 percent to 40 percent, according to the poll.
A new movie is creating buzz for its striking similarities to gruesome details emerging from the murder of Las Vegas model Jasmine Fiore.
Though a majority of Nevadans agree that changes to the nation’s health care system are needed, half oppose President Barack Obama’s proposal to reform that system, according to a poll commissioned by the Review-Journal.
Embattled Privé nightclub reopened late Friday night inside Planet Hollywood Resort without missing a beat: a body-shaking, floor-bumping beat.
He fashioned himself into a human “X,” arms outstretched at 45-degree angles, legs splayed so far apart that his feet practically occupied different time zones.
Like Punxsutawney Phil with really nice hair, U.S. Sen. John Ensign popped his head out of a burrow Wednesday and stepped directly into the searing media glare of the Fernley Chamber of Commerce.
A bias exists against police officers by the public, the heads of the local police departments acknowledged Saturday afternoon during an unusually frank panel discussion on minorities and their relationship with law enforcement.
Just east of the Fremont Street Experience, ragged women in short skirts sashay along cracked sidewalks. Homeless people in search of shade crouch against a concrete wall protecting a low-rent RV park. Weeds grow in empty lots. Once-prosperous businesses are shuttered.
The man who was fired after he botched the county’s first investigation into unauthorized remodeling at the Rio hotel is back on the payroll.
Preparations for the water pipeline to eastern Nevada will continue, and so will opposition to the multibillion-dollar project.
MARGARET PENSE MADE THE 300-MILE TRIP to Las Vegas to speak out Thursday against a proposed water pipeline that may one day tap groundwater near her home in White Pine County’s Snake Valley.
As Marta Berrera received emergency dialysis treatment recently at University Medical Center, the 34-year-old illegal immigrant said she wouldn’t want to be sent home to Mexico for treatment.
When Gary Peck arrived on the scene 13 years ago as the executive director of the Nevada chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Review-Journal editorial page offered him some suggestions about issues his organization could address.
Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Bart Stupak, D-Mich., have sent letters to an estimated 52 insurance companies asking them to provide detailed information on their company-funded executive conferences and retreats, as well as executive and board member pay for those making more than $500,000 a year, Fox News reports.