Maurice Jones scored 28 points to guide Southern California to a 63-60 victory over South Carolina on Saturday in the third-place game of the Las Vegas Invitational at Orleans Arena.
PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — Ryan Boatwright was playing in his first game for No. 4 Connecticut. Shabazz Napier was coming off a terrible performance against Central Florida.
RENO — Federal regulators have cited an Elko County gold mine for alleged safety violations.
SALT LAKE CITY — The U.S. Forest Service is trying to save one of the world’s largest and oldest organisms: a 106-acre aspen thicket threatened by pests, wildlife and climate change on a central Utah mountain slope.
Some call him a woman hater. Others call him a pest. An agitator. A nutcase. These things happen to Steve Horner because he’s a man who loudly protests something few others care about — “ladies’ night” promotions at bars and clubs.
Vistana homeowners are mounting a letter-writing campaign in federal court seeking restitution for the millions of dollars they say they lost in a massive scheme to take over homeowners associations around the Las Vegas Valley.
Vernon Newson called himself the “The Money Man,” but he specialized in suckering those seeking his tax advice into making some bad decisions.
A Las Vegas police officer fatally shot a fleeing suspect in the back after a foot chase Monday night near Sahara Avenue and Lamb Boulevard.
Here’s something that’s sure to spark a big fight between creationists and the Darwin-loving set: After this picture of a fossilized dinosaur track at Red Rock Canyon appeared in Monday’s newspaper, a woman called to tell us that she could clearly see the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus in the ripples surrounding the footprint.
Makeup that Kristen Hertzenberg applies before another appearance as Christine Daae in “Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular” first covers the inch-long scar across her neck.
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They serve and protect. And sometimes they shoot and kill. Las Vegas Valley police have been involved in 378 shootings since 1990, 142 of them fatal. One agency alone, the Metropolitan Police Department, was responsible for 310 shootings and 115 deaths.
Frequently asked questions about the use of deadly force by law enforcement agencies
A Review-Journal examination of all police shootings in Clark County since 1990 found that cops who use their guns sometimes show a pattern of questionable behavior beforehand or land in serious trouble after.
Police shootings make headlines. Far more common incidents when an officer would be justified in using deadly force, but elects not to, seldom get much attention.
In June 1996, Andre Rowe sat in a packed hearing room listening to testimony about the night his father was killed by Las Vegas police officer George “Gregg” Pease, who was in the position of having to explain his third fatal shooting in five years.
In the wake of two controversial officer-involved shooting deaths in the summer of 2010, the Review-Journal set out to analyze two decades of shootings by officers from the Las Vegas Valley’s five major law enforcement agencies
The homicide investigation and coroner’s inquest that followed her son’s 1999 shooting death left Connie Perrin angry and dissatisfied, so she sought emotional and financial redress in federal court.