With offseason workouts and three weeks of basketball practice in the rearview mirror, UNLV junior Tre’Von Willis is looking forward to playing in a game. And he knows he’s not the only one.
Mike Swick will make his return from a head injury on Saturday night when he faces Dan Hardy on the UFC 105 card in Manchester, England.
Miguel Cotto walks into the Top Rank Gym near Interstate 15 and West Flamingo Road and it’s as though the outside world ceases to exist.
Three days later than most expected, Silverado’s girls volleyball team advanced to the Class 4A state tournament.
Andre Agassi kicked off the launch of “Open: An Autobiography” on Monday in his hometown. The tennis legend said he wasn’t sure what to expect but the turnout definitely surprised him.
Editor’s note: This is the latest installment of a feature in which the Las Vegas Review-Journal asks 20 questions of a UNLV football player. Today’s Q&A is with tight end Kyle Watkins, a sophomore from Cactus Shadows High School in Cave Creek, Ariz., and Scottsdale (Ariz.) Community College.
Remembering the high times at UNLV is much easier for Larry Johnson now. He turned 40 in March, and the passing of the years has put a hint of gray in his beard and any hard feelings in the past.
A 6-year-old North Las Vegas boy died Thursday from H1N1-related causes, the Clark County coroner’s office said.
Florence McClure, nicknamed “Hurricane Flo” by the politicians she hounded and the journalists who covered her, was not the type of mother who stayed home and baked cookies, daughter Carolyn McClure Dunne recalled Monday.
CARSON CITY — Jeff Evans walked into the Department of Motor Vehicles office Monday carrying the faded papers in which the Army notified his mother that his father had been killed in an airplane crash in Vietnam in 1970.
Las Vegas Municipal Court will be closed Wednesday through Friday so court employees and an outside consultant can install the first new computer-based case management system at the busy court in more than two decades. Jill Christensen, administrative secretary for the court, urges residents with pressing municipal court business to come in by 5 p.m. today.
ELKO — A report by the Nevada Division of Minerals said 1,054 new abandoned mine hazards were discovered statewide in 2008, while 586 known hazards were secured.
The Obama administration intends to stop the pursuit of a license for the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in December, according to internal budget documents from the Department of Energy.
An item in Monday’s Political Notebook should have stated that Las Vegas Review-Journal Publisher Sherman Frederick is moderating a Nov. 19 forum for U.S. Senate candidates sponsored by the Boulder City Republican Women.
John Cariani’s 2006 “Almost, Maine,” at the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Performing and Visual Arts, is about a series of encounters designed — over designed — to touch your heart.
On Saturday morning, two neighbor girls pounded on Ginger Paige’s front door, according to a Las Vegas police report.
Greg Dagani, a former member of the Nevada Board of Education who resigned in 2008 after making out with his wife during a public meeting, said Monday that he will run for the U.S. Senate in 2010.
Because of the disjointed way that the University Medical Center has grown since 1931, shuttles have sometimes had to be used to get staff and patients quickly from one side of the public hospital to another.
A 44-year-old man was killed and a 17-year-old was injured when a homemade bomb they were working on went off Saturday night in a desert area of the northeast valley.
Nevada Republicans say they want a revolution. A conservative revolution.
Maryland logger Darvin Moon and 21-year-old Michigan resident Joseph Cada squared off late Monday night for the championship of the World Series of Poker.
A group of wounded military personnel from Fort Irwin, Calif., will serve as honorary grand marshals for the annual Veterans Day parade on Wednesday.