RENO — Luke Babbitt scored 29 points to spark UNR to a 79-68 victory over Louisiana Tech in the teams’ regular-season finale Saturday.
It took no time at all for Tre’Von Willis to forget what UNLV accomplished Saturday. By the time the final buzzer sounded, he was looking ahead.
SACATON, Ariz. — A bilingual 4th grader hurt in an Arizona bus accident that killed six people and injured more than a dozen others translated from an ambulance stretcher for busy rescue workers as they hurried to set up a triage center, authorities said Saturday.
The North Las Vegas Police Chief’s Advisory Council meets at 5 p.m. in the Police Department Training Auditorium, 1301 E. Lake Mead Blvd.
After a little more than a year in office, Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak has become a spirited voice on the county board and possibly its most vigilant member.
When Sue Lowden headed the Santa Fe hotel-casino, management forced a group of workers to shift to part-time status and sign away their health care coverage, said a judge who ruled the company violated fair labor practices.
CARSON CITY — Before the Legislature’s special session started 12 days ago, lawmakers expressed their outrage at a proposal to cut back on an item essential to the lives of those who are incontinent. Diapers.
It’s no secret Nevada owns one of the nation’s worst economies. The Silver State’s jobless rate hovers around 13 percent, and if you throw in discouraged workers who’ve quit seeking jobs and part-timers who want full-time work, unemployment actually runs close to 25 percent in the state, experts say.
Elvis may have left the building, but there’s a whole lotta talk about litigation going on.
LOS ANGELES — “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” was picked as last year’s worst picture at Saturday’s Razzies, and Sandra Bullock won worst actress for “All About Steve,” on the eve of her expected Academy Awards triumph for another film.
Vernon Teel and Drew Viney scored 18 points apiece to lead fifth-seeded Loyola Marymount to an 84-76 win over No. 4 San Francisco in the second round of the West Coast Conference tournament tonight at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm advisory from 10 p.m. tonight to 4 p.m. Sunday in the Spring Mountain and Red Rock Canyon areas.
