The work ethic that John Johnson developed growing up working in his dad’s automotive mechanic shop still serves him well.
Southern Nevada high school football fans weren’t the only ones paying attention to Bishop Gorman’s undefeated run to the Class 4A state championship.
Promoters of the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight abruptly canceled a trip to Dallas on Wednesday, dealing a possibly fatal blow to the chances of Jerry Jones landing the bout for Cowboys Stadium.
SALT LAKE CITY — Carlon Brown scored 10 of his 12 points in the second half, leading Utah on a late 9-0 run that clinched the Utes’ 68-52 victory over Michigan on Wednesday.
Final exams required most of UNLV sophomore Oscar Bellfield’s attention this week. When his mind shifts to basketball, all of his thoughts revolve around Kansas State.
• ARBOR VIEW — Girls basketball player Erika Lang totaled 24 points and 18 rebounds in victories over Virgin Valley and Del Sol. Boys basketball player Darington Banks had 25 points, eight assists and four rebounds in a 77-55 win over Del Sol.
From NFL diva to fashionista, Terrell Owens might be too sexy for his shirt, too sexy that it hurts, too sexy for Milan … just like the Right Said Fred song.
Nevadans will have a chance to vote in 2012 on whether the state should tax and regulate marijuana, according to a pro-pot group.
While Clark County and Southern Nevada cities look to Washington, D.C., for advice in estimating jobs to be created or saved through the Reinvestment and Recovery Act, the Congressional Budget Office last month stated it wasn’t using such estimates to measure the stimulus’ impact on employment and the nation’s economy.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons plans to issue an emergency regulation enacting the federal Real ID Act even as the federal government contemplates delaying the controversial measure.
The Nevada State Board of Nursing has opened a probe into the treatment of a pregnant Las Vegas woman who said she was ignored as she moaned and pleaded for help while waiting for six hours in University Medical Center’s emergency room. … Meanwhile, two other people in the waiting room on the night 25-year-old Roshunda Abney sought help backed up what she and her fiancé told the Review-Journal: When others in the waiting room asked a nursing assistant to aid Abney, they were told to mind their own business or they wouldn’t get a chance to see a physician.
An argument that started Friday over a breach of bathroom courtesy ended with one man dead, another injured and a third arrested for murder, according to Las Vegas police.
Allegations of willful destruction of evidence and lying to police were among the arguments heard Wednesday by a Nevada Supreme Court panel.
Tiger Woods is the first person in history, according to ESPN’s Rick Reilly, “to run his car into a hydrant and set himself on fire.”
A story and photo on Wednesday’s Page 5B incorrectly identified a candidate for Nevada state Senate in District 12. Army Pfc. Steve Sanson Jr. is running as a Republican for the state Senate seat. His father, Marine Corps veteran and activist Steve Sanson Sr., is running for the position of Clark County public administrator.
A driver accused of being drunk struck and killed a pedestrian Wednesday evening on Desert Inn Road near Las Vegas Boulevard.
The allegations that an attorney exposed himself in September to two girls near a southwest valley park are not true, his lawyer contended Tuesday.
At a time when Las Vegas’ unemployment rate is among the country’s worst, Clark County and its cities expect to create only a handful of jobs by year’s end, even though they say the federal government has awarded them between $50 million and $60 million in grants from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009.
RENO — A $7.96 million grant to the University of Nevada, Reno journalism school will provide students with the technology to compete in ever-evolving media formats for decades to come, school officials said.
People whose confidential records at University Medical Center might have been leaked to outsiders have been offered the free use of a credit monitoring service so they can determine whether their personal information has been compromised, the hospital’s CEO told a state legislative committee on Wednesday.
While I’m holding firm that Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto didn’t indict Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki because she’s a Democrat and he’s a Republican, she must accept blame for a case that’s gone out the door because a judge said the indictment was poorly written.
A broad interpretation of what it means to preserve an education job has allowed Nevada and other states to publicize sizeable overall employment gains from the first allocation of federal stimulus funds.
A federal judge imposed hefty sentences Wednesday on two reputed members of the Aryan Warriors prison gang who have records of violence.
The National Finals Rodeo isn’t a beauty pageant. Contestants aren’t smiling for cameras; they do whatever it takes to win a lot of money and gold buckles representing world championships.
