Eldorado boys basketball coach Michael Uzan considers Markeith Floyd his “pressure guy in pressure situations,” especially on defense.
With Hawaii officially having rubbed more salt in the gaping wound of what once was the Western Athletic Conference, the Mountain West got a little Mountain Westier on Friday.
WASHINGTON — The House voted last week for a bill that would offer a path to U.S. citizenship for adult children of illegal immigrants if they go to college or join the military.
You’ve heard that the full-body scanners at McCarran International Airport were pretty revealing. Believe it. A reporter departing for a family vacation was asked, when exiting a scanner, what was in the left-front pocket of her jeans. “Uh … nothing. Oh, wait. Some vitamins.” Vitamins? Yup; the scanner had picked up the little tablets, and after removing them from her pocket, the reporter was wanded (left leg only) and sent on her way.
Can a single street salvage a city that has struggled to shed a decades-old stigma in an endless effort to create a pedestrian-friendly downtown lined with hip boutiques and bars?
From 2006 to 2009 in Clark County, 95 babies less than 12 months old died because bedding or stuffed animals or some other object didn’t allow them to breathe. “We need to find a way to decrease these deaths,” said Dr. Andrew Eisen, chairman of the Clark County Child Death Review Team, which meets monthly to assess and analyze cases involving the death of any child under 18.
Kim Lewis-McClellan knew something was wrong with her 7-year-old son when he came to spend Christmas 2007 with her in Illinois. The boy, who had been living with his father in Las Vegas, complained of stomachaches and exhibited asthmatic symptoms.
Arts-smart and status for gratis. Becoming the first and gaining the second is the apparent windfall for Las Vegas, with local schoolchildren reaping the riches. That’s the goal, at least, of a new project involving the Clark County School District, the Smith Center for the Performing Arts and what is widely considered America’s cultural headquarters, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in an essentially cost-free collaboration.
Joe Rajchel interviewed students at Green Valley High School.
Some stories just can’t wait. Especially when it comes to something that works as billed. In this case, it’s the new 4G LTE wireless modem from Verizon Wireless.
John Unwin understood that there was some risk when he decided last year to leave Caesars Palace after five years to take control of a half-finished, multibillion-dollar resort project that many in Las Vegas thought would never be completed.
Jay Cutler has absorbed shots from critics and hard hits from defenses all season, but through it all the enigmatic quarterback has the Chicago Bears atop the NFC North.
Three reasons to like the Buccaneers (-1½) over the Redskins
It’s an easy part to overlook in basketball. The numbers are low. You have to calculate it off a score sheet. There isn’t much flavor to it. It’s the vanilla ice cream of stats.
In a tale of greed, lust and violence, Air Force Staff Sgt. Nathan Paet was killed in a plot involving his wife and three others, including her new boyfriend, police said.
Even before The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas opens Wednesday, gaming industry analysts are saying that to succeed financially the hotel-casino will have to offer something different than what is found at other properties along the Strip.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A snowstorm has pushed the New York Giants-Minnesota Vikings game to Monday night.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello confirmed the decision in an e-mail message Saturday night, with the Giants stuck in Kansas City because of the weather in Minnesota that brought 15 or more inches of snow.