There are no easy answers. No uncomplicated solution gift-wrapped with a bow.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas Christian junior Zvonko Buljan is new to the Mountain West Conference, so he took advantage of an opportunity to introduce himself Saturday.
RUSTON, La. — Luke Babbitt hit a game-winning 3-pointer as time expired to lift UNR to a 67-64 win over Louisiana Tech on Saturday.
Apparently, Roy Englebrecht isn’t afraid of a challenge.
Utah’s appearance — and victory — in the Sugar Bowl did more than simply increase the Mountain West Conference’s credibility. It might have saved some jobs at UNLV.
Findlay Prep coach Michael Peck does his best to quell talk of an undefeated season.
Apparently Tim Tebow, Florida quarterback and well-known missionary, ditches the turn-the-other-cheek policy once the game begins.
SAN DIEGO — Ryan Amoroso had 17 points, and Lorrenzo Wade and D.J. Gay scored 11 apiece as San Diego State beat Utah 72-63 Saturday for its fifth consecutive victory.
A sniper had killed one U.S. soldier and shot at two others, so Enrique Pineda knew the enemy was out there, eager for blood.
ALONG THE ROAD TO RED ROCK CANYON on Tuesday, serious cyclists Mark Dallas and Bob McCall paused to comment on plans by public land managers to build a safer trail for bicyclists off the beaten path of state Route 159.
WASHINGTON — In one of the first actions by the new Congress that convened last week, the House passed bills aimed at combating wage discrimination against women.
For former Army medic Ivy Lara, the whistle of a mortar shell is all she remembers.
Trapped, no time for cover. The explosion leveled the sergeant’s quarters and hurled her through the air.
A man plowed a car through several steel pylons and into a pedestrian on Fremont Street Saturday morning.
At the time, it looked like a tragic case of self-defense. In May, Thomas Randolph said he shot and killed an armed intruder in his Las Vegas home, but not before the man gunned down Randolph’s wife.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Commission on Ethics has appealed a judge’s ruling limiting its authority to discipline state lawmakers.
A lone fighter hammered away at a heavy bag while hip-hop floated and feinted on the cool air inside Barry’s Boxing gym.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A 7-year-old foster child who was kidnapped while waiting for his school bus was found safe at a Las Vegas home on Saturday morning after police and FBI agents tracked a van 100 miles through the desert.
A 70-year-old man is confirmed dead and authorities have found a second body after a possible Friday boating accident on Lake Mohave.
Dorothy Phillips is as anxious as anyone would be at the thought of surgery. It’s just plain scary.
Evidence presented at a British coroner’s inquest, which found in April that a tourist from Bristol, England was “unlawfully killed” as a result of a gallbladder operation at University Medical Center in Las Vegas, is at the heart of a complaint under review by the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners.
Mayor Oscar Goodman‘s latest defense of the mob museum is certain to create some powder burns in the arts community.
WASHINGTON — After receiving more than 5,000 requests for passes to the presidential inauguration later this month, Sen. Harry Reid on Friday called on chance to help distribute some tickets. Reid pulled six numbered slips from a cowboy hat, the first batch of what was to be a lottery for 1,000 tickets to President-elect Barack Obama’s swearing-in. “There is no other way to do this fairly,” Reid said.
For the past two weeks I have basked in the numbers shining forth from the gallon and dollar counters at my local gasoline pump.
CARSON CITY — Janice and Rafael Salazar live in a 600-square-foot mobile home in an old trailer park on the north end of Reno.
SPARKS — For 10 years, Nonie Galloway helped pay the bills as a hostess-cashier at the Silver Club in Sparks.
Better treatment for veterans is not a hard sell. But most progress must be made at the federal level, where it is hard to agree on an agenda, let alone accomplish one.