Linebackers Kyle Anderson of Silverado High School and Perry Cooper of The Woodlands (Texas) High School committed to UNLV’s football team on Sunday.
Given how well his team played in the fall, UNLV men’s golf coach Dwaine Knight is cautiously optimistic his young team will carry over its strong play into the spring.
Throw out the two games the Indianapolis Colts tanked, a self-sabotage scenario which threatened the integrity of the NFL, and Peyton Manning is 16-0 as a starting quarterback this season. Manning has won every game the Colts didn’t try to lose. In reality, he has a perfect record.
When Competitor Group took over this city’s marathon and rebranded it the Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon, the goal was to attract 25,000 runners for the first running.
CARSON CITY — If Gov. Jim Gibbons and legislators decide to lay off thousands of state employees to save money, the state still will be on the hook for paying their unemployment benefits, which would cost more than $1 million a month for every 1,000 workers affected.
Rural Nevada physician Robin Titus says she is dropping her campaign to challenge U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., but says reports she will support fellow Republican Sue Lowden are false.
Brett Sperry, understandably, has plenty of nice things to say about the city of Las Vegas. His recently completed Brett Wesley Contemporary Gallery in the Arts District had the support of Mayor Oscar Goodman and Mayor Pro Tem Gary Reese and even garnered a Mayor’s Urban Design Award earlier this month. He is looking to build another building in the same neighborhood.
A waiter presented us with fruit plates at our hidden table in the Four Seasons’ Verandah. I looked over at Donald Trump, and he told me about the nasty thing he witnessed the night before.
One man was killed and another was injured Sunday during an early morning shooting in North Las Vegas.
Getting to space is about to be outsourced, and two Nevada companies are among those being mentioned as possible players in the effort.
CARSON CITY — Massive layoffs of state employees could induce many long-term workers to retire and potentially hurt the assets of the Public Employees Retirement System, its top official said Friday.
Nevada ranked fourth in the nation in 2007 for the number of black people who were killed in slayings per capita, according to a recent study by an anti-gun violence group.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will propose eliminating funding for the Yucca Mountain Project in a new budget he will submit to Congress today , said Nevada lawmakers who were notified over the weekend.
Bette Midler got a celebrity-assisted send-off at Caesars Palace on Sunday, a rousing finale to her two-year run of “The Showgirl Must Go On.”
In law, victory is a matter of interpretation. Personal injury attorney Glen Lerner agreed Wednesday to a public reprimand and a $5,000 fine from the State Bar of Nevada. Yet when I bumped into Lerner and his attorney, Dominic Gentile, at the Reno airport, Gentile happily declared, “We won.”
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — A recent NASA study showed Lake Tahoe’s water is warming twice as quickly as regional air temperature, lending weight to predictions of warming lake temperatures made by UC Davis researchers in 2008.
Samantha Burton, a 26-year-old unmarried Florida mother of two, was 25 weeks pregnant last March when she displayed signs of premature labor. At the urging of her obstetrician, she sought care at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital.
With the stimulus boondoggle, the health care fiasco, failed bailouts, Haiti, underwear bombers, people sneaking into White House events and the other nonsense the two parties force citizens to endure, how can anyone have confidence in anything associated with Washington?
Local power utility NV Energy filed its latest integrated resource plan with the state Public Utilities Commission Monday.