In the wake of Mark McGwire’s confession that he used steroids, the family of Roger Maris wants the season home run record back.
Quarterbacks have plenty to think about, from reading defenses to avoiding blitzing linebackers.
Midway through his junior year, guard Tre’Von Willis has matured into UNLV’s team leader and most reliable scorer. All he talks about, though, is doing what’s necessary to be a winner.
Mark McGwire says he doesn’t know exactly what he took, that he can’t remember the names of the steroids he poured into his body over the course of a decade. He doesn’t believe they helped him become a home run king. He doesn’t view performance-enhancing drugs as a reason for his gargantuan blasts.
Among Southern Nevada high schools, Class 1A and 2A would be most affected by the realignment proposed for the next school year by the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association on Tuesday.
At 17 years old, Jason Zucker wasn’t expected to contend for a spot on the U.S. National Under-20 hockey team.
Brandyn Dombrowski wears his Las Vegas pride on his sleeve — and under it.
In an opinion amended Friday, a panel of judges for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that police agencies open themselves to liability if they don’t train officers to detect emotional distress in individuals and react appropriately.
Joe Basso thought it was a joke. The 1989 Chaparral High grad has been in Los Angeles trying to make it as an actor since the mid-1990s, and the voice on the other end of the phone wanted to put him on TV based solely on where and when he went to high school.
Vernon Fox admits there was a time he felt pretty cocky, and who could have blamed him?
Sen. Harry Reid’s Republican opponents used anti-spending and anti-government slogans to rally an eclectic crowd of “tea party” conservatives who vowed to vote him out in a race that shifted Tuesday to the ”lean take-over” column for the GOP, according to a respected political analyst. 
Video of Tea Party Express event
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons clarified Tuesday that he does not want to end the class-size reduction and full-day kindergarten programs in public schools, just the legal requirement for them.
Maj. Russell C. Goodman flew jets for the Thunderbirds over Nellis Air Force Base and bombers for the Navy over Vietnam. On Thursday, his flag-draped remains will be brought back to the base where he performed. He’ll be remembered by his family and the sailor who was with him when their jet went down under enemy fire south of Hanoi 43 years ago.
SEATTLE — Federal prosecutors have closed a two-year investigation into rape allegations against magician David Copperfield without filing charges.
Mayor Oscar Goodman channeled James Brown at the beginning of the Las Vegas State of the City speech Tuesday, crowing, “I feel good!” as he came on stage.
The Nevada gubernatorial race came into sharper focus Tuesday with two Republican candidates disclosing their fundraising totals.
Las Vegas police are searching for a suspect who they’ve dubbed the “Scarf-Face Robber” in more than a dozen robberies he has committed since late December.
WASHINGTON — School budget cuts are not all bad because they tend to focus educators on the most important parts of their mission, Clark County schools Superintendent Walt Rulffes said Tuesday as he was being considered for a national honor.
Let’s not break out the party hats and self-congratulatory statements just yet.
Every once in a while, urban myths involving driving or vehicles surface, such as this one: A woman calls an auto parts store in search of a 28-ounce water pump. When the befuddled parts handler asks the make of car, she replies, “Datsun 280Z.” Funny, but not all of them are; some instill fear in motorists.
The Obama administration had been enduring some mockery for using a nebulous and made-up phrase as it referred to jobs “saved or created” by its $787 billion borrow-and-spend stimulus program.
A federal judge has decided the Clark County Commission is so hopelessly corrupt and subservient to organized labor that it can’t be trusted to fairly and lawfully award a contract to improve part of the Las Vegas Beltway.
Move over, Margaritaville. There’s a new Strip eatery to waste away in that’s named after a tequila-related song and owned by the singer who popularized it.
It’s rare to come across a production you love of a script you detest.
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