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Tre’Von Willis scored a season-high 22 points and Chace Stanback had 15 as UNLV rolled to an 83-49 victory over Texas Christian in a Mountain West Conference game at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The Seattle Seahawks, a 10-point home underdog, upset New Orleans, the defending Super Bowl champs, today in Seattle in the first NFL playoff game of the season
A gunman nearly unloaded a semiautomatic weapon at a busy supermarket Saturday during a public gathering for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, wounding the Democrat and killing Arizona’s chief federal judge and five others in an attempted assassination.
Dancer Deborah Flores-Narvaez’s body, dismembered and packed into at least two cement-filled tubs, was left by her killer in a downtown Las Vegas home. Flores-Narvaez’ 32-year-old former boyfriend was arrested on murder charges early Saturday morning, nearly a month after she disappeared on Dec. 12.
The wife of casino owner and Detroit businessman Don Barden has received a temporary restraining order protecting the couple’s assets while she seeks to have him declared incompetent in the management of their finances.
Coronado boys basketball coach Jeff Kaufman has seen Foothill jump out to huge leads early in games. Last season, the Falcons took a 20-point halftime lead against Coronado.
Add adult entertainment to the list of industries trying to figure how to rebound from recession. With the video makers already being stung by piracy and free websites, the economy dealt a further blow by forcing people to slash discretionary spending. The fallout was visible Friday on the shrunken exhibit floor of the annual Adult Entertainment Expo that had 171 booths, four more than last year yet well below the more than 200 typical at mid-decade.
LOS ANGELES — A coroner’s investigator testified Friday that she found 12 bottles of a powerful anesthetic that contributed to the death of Michael Jackson in the singer’s bedroom and closet after he died.
I suppose this is what it felt like to be a great actor in the 1930s not named Spencer Tracy. Or how it feels to be a track star running the same events as Usain Bolt. Or to land your first professional singing gig down the street from where Andrea Bocelli is holding a concert.
On a UNLV team with two seniors and three juniors in the starting lineup, sophomore Anthony Marshall has decided to be more assertive as a leader. Marshall said the 25th-ranked Rebels, who were humbled in an 89-77 home loss to No. 15 Brigham Young on Wednesday, need to rally emotionally and avoid allowing one poor game to send the team into a tailspin.