The bad news for UNLV is it won’t be able to face New Mexico again until next season.
WASHINGTON — The Senate last week declined to move forward on a $726 billion defense authorization bill that would have included debates on gays in the military and on immigration.
Erik Scott’s drug use and behavior took center stage this week, as a coroner’s inquest got under way into the July 10 police shooting that left the 38-year-old dead outside a Costco store in Summerlin.
Toni Westbrook-VanCleave was only 6, but she still recalls Marilyn Monroe strapping on a toy gun belt and playing cowboys and Indians with her brother while filming “The Misfits.”
On the day of Hoover Dam’s dedication, 75 years ago this week, President Franklin D. Roosevelt heralded it as a “great feat of mankind” destined to reshape “the geography of a whole region.” Nowhere was that transformation more dramatic than in Southern Nevada.
Austin Dillon started today by setting an NASCAR Camping World Truck Series rookie record by earning his fifth pole of the year and ended the night by winning the Smith’s 350k at Las Vegas Motor Speedway before an estimated crowd of 40,000.
The Rebels were down early 7-0 but scored 45 unanswered points in a Mountain West Conference game at Sam Boyd Stadium. UNLV improves to 1-3 (1-1 MWC) while New Mexico falls to 0-4 (0-2)
Coming into Dover this week as the second race in NASCAR’s Chase for the Championship, the story lines all centered on last week’s winner Clint Bowyer, and his team, being fined and having 150 points deducted for their car not making postrace specifications. Everyone had differing opinions on the matter, but most agreed that the penalty was harsh. The 150 points lost immediately dropped Bowyer from a contender to last in the Chase.
Wendy Wolkenstein never saw a gun in Erik Scott’s hand. That didn’t mean she saw no threat. As she left the Summerlin Costco store, she found herself near Scott as a Las Vegas police officer held him at gunpoint and shouted at him to get on the ground.
