SAN FRANCISCO — UNR rode Colin Kaepernick and a high-powered offense to its most successful season since joining the top division of college football.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Consider this: You are a star junior college football recruit about to make one of the most important decisions of your life, one that will shape your future and potentially determine whether you enjoy a professional career defined by fame and fortune.
An average of five Clark County firefighters each year wind up with chronic ailments such as heart failure and back injuries that end their careers.
Oregon boy meets Auburn girl. In Las Vegas. And here you thought Appalachian State over Michigan was a major upset. They fall in love, get married, raise a family, write books, design jewelry, live happily ever after.
An unexpected thing happened at the porn awards this weekend. All these women porn stars kept telling me about their deep love for sci-fi TV and video games. Raven Alexis, a stunning Las Vegan, stood before me in a custom latex red gown (tasteful), propped up on crutches (she fractured her hip, whoops!) and told me computers have become her “second passion.”
To the editor: My solution to immigration: Let birthright citizenship apply only to immigrants with valid immigration visas. As I said before: Let them all in with proper documentation. We are all human beings and we all deserve a better life than what we have. So closing the border is not the answer.
A phenomenal comeback came to an abrupt and ironic end Sunday. Michael Vick, the quarterback who experienced a magical season of redemption in Philadelphia, was thrown to the ‘dogs.
The 76th session of the Nevada Legislature starts in 28 days, but many are still trying to unravel a legislative mess from the special session that ended 10 months ago.
The long-failing North Las Vegas Housing Authority is ready for its tombstone. The public housing agency, infamous in recent years for its poor management and misuse of federal funds meant to help the city’s neediest residents, is officially no more. In December it folded into the much larger Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority, a year later than officials originally hoped.
Bald eagles are back soaring in record numbers at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, four years after the once-imperiled, iconic bird of prey was taken off the nation’s list of endangered species. During their annual winter survey Thursday, wildlife biologists from the National Park Service, UNLV’s Public Lands Institute and other state and federal agencies counted 176 bald eagles along the shorelines of lakes Mead and Mohave.
It’s deja vu all over again, as Shooting Stars, and your humble correspondent, return to the pages of the Review-Journal following more than two years of online-only duty, keeping tabs on movie and TV production in and around Neon Nirvana.