Many young basketball players spend countless hours shooting jumpers as they try to improve their game.
Gabriel Campillo has not had any problems venturing into enemy territory, which in boxing can prove hazardous to one’s record, not to mention one’s health.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dairese Gary scored a career-high 25 points, including nine in the final 1:30, and No. 23 New Mexico beat No. 12 Brigham Young 76-72 on Wednesday to snap the Cougars’ 15-game winning streak.
Del Sol senior Evan Weinstock had more to consider with recruiting than most high school football standouts.
ARBOR VIEW — Girls soccer player Tori Rodriguez scored two goals in a 7-0 win over Mojave. Boys basketball player Darington Banks averaged 22 points, six rebounds, six assists and four steals in two games.
Two leading candidates for governor are trading shots over how best to solve the state’s budget crisis.
Dr. Armen Nikogosian has a hard time believing Fulgencio Garcia can do what he does. Though the internist’s 41-year-old patient suffers from an acute leukemia that Nikogosian describes as “an excruciating ache inside all his bones,” Garcia continues to work full time as a delivery man for a seafood company that caters to casinos. Garcia’s family and friends will hold a bone marrow donor drive Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at American Heritage Academy, 6126 S. Sandhill Road, near Tropicana Avenue.
Police credit a 37-year-old man with intervening in a neighbor’s desperate situation and saving the life of a 6-year-old boy Wednesday afternoon.
The trial for ACORN, a national grass-roots community organizing group, has been postponed to July, a District Court judge ruled Wednesday.
An investigation of a recent escape has triggered the surprise closure of a state prison camp in central Nevada.
What began as an investigative article in a Northern Nevada high school newspaper has turned into a First Amendment issue for one young reporter.
In a blunt private comment, Rep. Dina Titus declared out loud what Democrats fear most: that incumbents from President Barack Obama to Sen. Harry Reid to Titus herself are “f—ed” and risk losing re-election unless they learn from the GOP Senate upset in Massachusetts.
Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh said he’ll leave politics out of the equation as a Miss America judge this week.
The trial of six men charged in connection with the slaying of a Las Vegas police officer at his North Las Vegas home in November will be delayed.
A Clark County School District committee meeting on increasing parental involvement began Wednesday with an explanation on why the event was not subject to Nevada’s Open Meeting Law.
A panel weighing the Energy Department’s license application for building a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain wonders what will happen to 80 million pages of supporting documents if funding to keep track of them is slashed after September.
After 10 days on the job, Nevada’s first licensed male prostitute finally attracted his first customer, a self-employed woman in her mid-40s to early 50s who “seemed like she knew what she wanted.”
WASHINGTON — Needing to show that he can connect to the concerns of Americans worried about their jobs, their homes and their health care, President Barack Obama delivered an effective State of the Union speech, Nevada Democrats in Congress said after the address Wednesday night. But in a reaction suggesting that Obama was not entirely successful in closing the partisan divide that has put Congress at loggerheads for the past few years, some Republicans said they were still skeptical.
At long last, I have something in common with the under-30 crowd besides an affinity for pizza. I, too, am now getting my news from Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”
• Because of incorrect information provided to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the player who hit the game-winning shot in the Coronado-Basic girls basketball game Tuesday was misidentified in Wednesday’s Sports section. Coronado’s Nicole Ruffino made a basket with 12 seconds left to give the Cougars a 51-49 victory.
Gov. Jim Gibbons on Wednesday backed off his long-shot plan to have Nevada withdraw from Medicaid, a federal program that provides low-cost health care to the poor.
Nearly two tons of locally donated goods for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti are expected to reach their destination soon.
Two brothers on Wednesday were convicted by a Clark County jury in the slaying of their brother-in-law a year ago.
Rick Tabish, who gained notoriety as a suspect in the 1998 death of former Las Vegas casino executive Ted Binion, could be released from prison as early as April 2.
After weeks of writing about shows and theater closings, it’s refreshing to have a column’s worth of, well, if not new construction, at least some encouraging activity to refurbish ballrooms, old lounges and showrooms.
The Las Vegas Natural History Museum has a message to everyone unimpressed by its collection to date: Tut-tut.