Centennial boys tennis coach Mike Livreri scrambled his lineup for Tuesday’s Sunset Region quarterfinal against Bonanza.
Editor’s note: Former UNLV wide receiver Casey Flair writes a weekly journal for the Las Vegas Review-Journal from training camp with the Locomotives of the United Football League:
Brigham Young coach Bronco Mendenhall can’t control perception, but he knows the implications are real.
Los Angeles should be thankful the Rams left for St. Louis 15 years ago. And it has nothing to do with their NFL-worst 14-game losing streak and 5-31 record since 2007.
J.P. Losman waited and waited for the telephone to ring.
Predictions in October mean nothing in March, so UNLV basketball coach Lon Kruger expressed no qualms with the poll results unveiled Tuesday.
I have met UNLV president Neal Smatresk once. I have spoken to him twice. I know he ran track and swam in high school. I know he has a daughter who played soccer and a son who played baseball. I know his wife enjoys watching volleyball.
Jerry Bussell, Nevada’s controversial former homeland security director and an advocate of UNLV’s Educational Outreach Division in its 2006 fight with another branch of the university, has taken a one-year position with the division he favored that will pay him $120,000.
• A story in Monday’s Review-Journal about the health care bill before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee contained an error. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., placed in the bill a clause that Nevada and three other states would not pay any increased costs for Medicaid if the bill wins approval. The insertion was not in the form of an amendment.
A Clark County jury on Monday cleared an electrical company of any wrongdoing in the August 2003 death of a Kentucky tourist on the Strip.
CARSON CITY — Nevada businesses suffering from tough economic times got good news from the state Employment Security Council on Tuesday. They probably won’t face an increase in the unemployment tax next year.
The man who was crushed after his sport utility vehicle rolled over him on Thursday has been identified as 63-year-old James Byron Meier of Las Vegas.
Reversing a position it has taken publicly for weeks, the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners determined Tuesday that state law allows medical assistants to administer everything from flu shots to Botox.
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Clark County will quit picking up and caring for unwanted pet tortoises at the end of the year.
A Clark County coroner’s inquest jury will meet Nov. 6 on the officer-involved shooting of a teenager who was killed by Las Vegas police last month as he held a knife near his mother’s throat.
The Nevada Board of Medical Examiners on Tuesday revoked the license of a doctor who faces conspiracy, money laundering, administering narcotic drugs and other charges in Arizona.
Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins shouldn’t be barred from voting on a contested highway contract, a lawsuit filed Monday states.
To heck with Carson City. The real prize is in Washington, D.C.
Ted Kennedy liked John Kennedy‘s chances so much in the 1960 presidential race that he couldn’t resist betting on his brother, a big underdog.
Sometimes when new laws are passed, there’s a big to-do. By the time they’re enacted, everyone has forgotten about them and wonders, for instance, why the heck they need their birth certificate to renew their driver’s license. The Department of Motor Vehicle’s Real I.D. Act will get rolling in January. Check out www.dmvnv.com to get all the details about the act and its regulations.
Plans to close an aging physical therapy clinic to save a financially strapped hospital about $1.4 million rankled one Clark County commissioner who said the decision was being made hastily.
Harold Hyman, a flamboyant journalist molded in the golden age of newspapers, died Friday in El Jen Convalescent and Retirement Center in Las Vegas after an illness of several months. He was 77.
The Nevada Supreme Court came prepared Tuesday to consider setting limits on the number of cases assigned to overburdened public defenders.
Budget cuts planned for three dozen Clark County departments and the University Medical Center stop short of full-time employee layoffs and miss the 5 percent target set by officials in July.
RENO — Friends say a Reno soldier was among eight killed during a weekend firefight against insurgents in Afghanistan.
Congress set out to modernize the mission of the Nevada Test Site and eventually change the name it’s had for the past 57 years with Senate passage Tuesday of the defense authorization bill.