Big machine is weeks away from digging under Lake Mead

At a construction site 600 feet beneath the shores of Lake Mead, workers have finally begun assembling the giant digger that will be used to excavate a new water intake pipe beneath the bottom of the nation’s largest man-made reservoir.

Win puts Locos back on track

Quarterback Chase Clement passed for 254 yards and a touchdown and also ran for another score as the Locomotives won their 2011 United Football League home opener in front of an announced crowd of 6,500 at Sam Boyd Stadium.

UNR dominates UNLV 37-0 to capture Fremont Cannon

The Wolf Pack (2-3) ran past the Rebels (1-4) today to win the Battle for the Fremont Cannon in Reno. The Rebels travel to Wyoming next week in a Mountain West Conference game.

Two arrested in North Las Vegas gang shooting

Two men were arrested on murder charges Friday after a North Las Vegas gang shooting that left one man dead and a teenager injured.

In Brief

Former Memphis basketball coach John Calipari and former Tigers guard Derrick Rose agreed last year to pay $100,000 to avoid a lawsuit over the team’s season that ended in the 2008 Final Four with the wins later vacated by the NCAA.

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Spring Mountain rolls behind Williams, Powell

Eight-man football sometimes has a basketball feel in high-scoring games, especially when played on an 80-yard field.

Carson kicker adds to leggy legend

This is the home of a boy with a bionic leg, of a miniature Col. Steve Austin, able to crush pigskins with one mighty follow-through.

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