When did New Mexico become the conference’s Oakland Raiders, and what in the name of Al Davis is going on in Albuquerque?
On its face, Mike Sanford limiting media access to his UNLV football team this week means as much as one raindrop in a monsoon. Absolutely nothing.
The Los Angeles Angels paid tribute to pitcher Nick Adenhart on Monday night by gathering near a picture of their fallen teammate on the outfield wall at Angel Stadium after clinching the American League West Division championship.
Even in retirement, Jerry Tarkanian was always on the run, traveling across the country and speaking to various groups. For the past few months, though, it has been a challenge for him to walk.
An officer fatally shot a male juvenile who had an arm wrapped around a woman’s throat while wielding a knife Tuesday at an east valley apartment, Las Vegas police said. … Capt. Randy Montandon said police arrived at the Sunridge Apartment Homes, 4855 Vegas Valley Drive, near Nellis Boulevard, about 5:13 p.m. in response to a call about a “subject with a knife.” … One officer fired his weapon and struck the suspect, Montandon said. The officer fired because there was an “immediate threat” to the woman.
Editor’s note: Former UNLV wide receiver Casey Flair will write a weekly journal for the Las Vegas Review-Journal from training camp with the Locomotives of the United Football League. His journal will appear on Wednesdays:
Ken Burns has a good memory. But if you had asked him, he would have told you he had never set foot in a national park before he began researching his latest documentary film series.
Clark County commissioners will consider next week whether to appeal a judge’s ruling that nullified their June vote to reduce most prosecutors’ pay raises.
Trial or no trial? That remains the question in the case against ACORN, the grass-roots community organizing group.
A plan to put up a fast-food restaurant next door to the Craig Road Pet Cemetery has people crying foul. The eatery would bring noise and traffic too close to the cemetery, they say, and bring commercial development into an area zoned for residences.
Officials say a weekend benefit concert raised nearly $8 million to support tennis star Andre Agassi’s public charter school in Las Vegas.
Some big rig drivers won’t have any trouble spotting “smokies” on Las Vegas roadways over the next few months. The troopers will be sitting in their cabs.
MONTPELIER, Vt. — A smooth-talking, globe-trotting serial swindler who is wanted in Las Vegas on a burglary charge has been arrested after crossing illegally from Canada to Vermont, federal authorities said.
Five retired Las Vegas firefighters are suing the city of Las Vegas and the public retirement system, alleging that officials broke a contract when their retirement pay was cut.
The Henderson police officer at the center of one of the Las Vegas Valley’s most controversial shootings in recent memory resigned from the department Tuesday for undisclosed reasons.
Several signs that apparently refer to KTNV-TV, Channel 13 anchor Nina Radetich were posted on valley overpasses Tuesday morning.
I’ve fielded this question at least a dozen times since I’ve taken over this job: When will the onramps and offramps on U.S. Highway 95 at Martin Luther King Boulevard open?
“Provider One” and “Mike” — whoever they are — ought to know that Judge Kent Dawson said in federal court Tuesday that a grand jury investigation of them continues. The two — or possibly one person using two pseudonyms — used those names when they posted comments on the Las Vegas Review-Journal Web site about the jury and a prosecutor in a federal tax evasion trial then in progress.
After a five-week stalemate over $1.5 million in child welfare funds, the state Department of Health and Human Services has reversed course and agreed to release the money to the Clark County district attorney’s office.
Neither feel-good indoctrination nor government compulsion can spare the effort of “going green” from cold economic realities. Take recycling. No one dares question why we recycle glass when it’s not cost effective or especially good for the environment.
President Obama plans to join the first lady in Copenhagen, Denmark, this week, lobbying members of the International Olympic Committee in support of Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Summer Games.
There’s a new chef in town. Outlaws Backyard BBQ, 9500 S. Eastern Ave., in Henderson, which closed its swinging doors in March, has reopened under new ownership. And there’s one law it promises not to violate: making food from scratch. It holds true from the barbecue sauce slathering a third of its new menu to the freshly broiled and sliced club-sandwich meat.
Even the most ambitious cooks turn to convenience foods once in a while — especially for dishes that require more than the average amount of labor, and I think spinach souffle fits in that category. And readers know where to get a frozen version for Bob Kostelecky, who’s looking for one.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
Fiery wrong-way crash kills 2, shuts down 215 in northwest Las Vegas
Woman arrested after police say she climbed on Reno craps table, threw chips at people
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school
Asian grocery store looks to add new location near Summerlin