The players on Valley’s girls basketball team are barely tall enough to ride amusement park rides by themselves.
Often judged on their production as a group, UNLV post players Brice Massamba, Matt Shaw and Darris Santee are like three guys sharing a one-bedroom apartment.
When the Bill Russell who played baseball was growing up in Pittsburg, Kan., the kids in his neighborhood would choose up sides at a place called Deramus Park. It was a literal sandlot. You know the type: All dirt infield, patchwork grass in the outfield, chain-link fence that bends and bows in places. Windy as hell, too, said the former Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop.
Salvador Cabanas, the top player on Paraguay’s World Cup team, was shot in the head before dawn Monday in the bathroom of a bar in a well-off neighborhood in Mexico City.
There is no shortage of pro athletes who have tried to compete at the highest levels long after their bodies were able.
Tropicana illusionist Dirk Arthur, who works with big cats onstage, took a 10-week-old white Bengal tiger to a Hebrew academy on Monday to let 430 kids pet the cub’s tail for luck. Weird, right?
Henderson City Councilwoman Kathleen Boutin is calling on city officials to publicly address lingering questions about the appointment of Debra March to the council six months ago.
The “hedonistic” lifestyle of former Hard Rock Hotel CEO Walter Edward “Ed” Scheetz won’t be put on trial now that a settlement has been reached in a lawsuit alleging Scheetz was responsible for the August 2007 overdose death of 23-year-old Michelle Hatchel.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Dean Heller registered a complaint with the Treasury secretary on Monday over Chrysler’s decision to spend millions of dollars to air a commercial during the Super Bowl.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — Mohave County has declared a flood emergency and is seeking federal funds to repair damage caused by a series of storms that drenched northwest Arizona last week.
Tears begin to well up in his large, dark brown eyes as Rigaud “Rico” Dieudonne tells his story — of a man destroyed by grief.
A Political Eye item in Monday’s Review-Journal listing donors to Brian Sandoval’s gubernatorial campaign who are also Republicans who support U.S. Sen. Harry Reid contained an error. Anthony Marnell of M Resort is not a member of Republicans for Reid.
A Clark County School District committee formed to address low-performing schools has been operating outside the state’s open meeting law, a practice that is now the subject of a Review-Journal complaint to the Nevada attorney general.
A man is dead and his wife is in critical condition after an armed suspect entered their Las Vegas home and began shooting early Monday.
A district judge Monday approved a settlement of 18 medical malpractice lawsuits stemming from the Las Vegas hepatitis C outbreak.
A Clark County jury Monday convicted three men of second-degree murder and other felonies related to a shooting and attempted robbery at an illegal street race in 2007.
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman won’t be running for governor of Nevada. On Monday Goodman said he didn’t want to be away from his wife, Carolyn, who wouldn’t move to Carson City, a requirement for Nevada’s governor.
The circus wagon of Nevada politics lost a wheel Monday. The state sorely in need of a ringmaster learned it would have to make do without the gubernatorial candidacy of Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman.
A California man was arrested Friday after Las Vegas police said he sexually assaulted and strangled a woman in her northwest valley home.
A Chinook helicopter and two Black Hawk helicopters from the Nevada Army National Guard responded Monday to help emergency teams near Flagstaff, Ariz., where heavy rain and snow have caused flooding.
A 60-year-old man was found dead from a gunshot wound in a North Las Vegas home Friday afternoon.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons will deliver a special State of the State address Feb. 8 to discuss the economy and propose steps to cover an estimated $1 billion shortfall in the taxes that fund state government.
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