Top-seeded UNR struggled offensively down the stretch and saw its NCAA Tournament hopes likely vanish as the Wolf Pack fell 78-73 to Louisiana Tech in the semifinals of the Western Athletic Conference tournament at the Orleans Arena.
A 30-year-old Las Vegas man was killed Friday when his Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle collided with a pickup truck shortly after 1:50 p.m. at Alexander and Bradley roads, Las Vegas police said.
Wendell McKines led five New Mexico State players in double figures with 22 points, and the Aggies built a 20-point lead before holding off numerous Hawaii rallies in the second half for a 92-81 win over the Rainbow Warriors in the Western Athletic Conference semifinals on Friday night at Orleans Arena.
Senior forward Drew Gordon had 19 points and 13 rebounds to lift second-seeded New Mexico to a 72-67 victory over UNLV in a Mountain West Conference tournament semifinal at the Thomas & Mack Center. The third-seeded Rebels will now wait until 3 p.m. Sunday to learn their postseason fate when the NCAA Tournament field is announced.
Mountain West Conference player of the year Jamaal Franklin scored 19 points and added six rebounds to help San Diego State advance to the championship game of the conference tournament with a 79-69 win over Colorado State in the first semifinal Friday evening.
Rapper Coolio has been arrested in Las Vegas on a warrant charging him with failure to appear in court on a traffic ticket almost two years ago.
Sharon Ochoa-Reyes, a Sunrise Children’s Hospital nurse fired in connection with a 2010 baby death in the neonatal intensive care unit, filed a lawsuit Friday against the hospital and four of its executives, charging that she was wrongfully terminated and defamed.
Kyle Busch went early and he went fast, breaking the Las Vegas Motor Speedway track record Friday. Fourteen other drivers followed to also break the previous mark, but only Kasey Kahne drove faster than the Las Vegan.
Ross Hack was on the verge of being released from an Arizona prison when a federal grand jury in Las Vegas indicted him last month in connection with the racially motivated shooting deaths of two men in 1998.
WASHINGTON — With the federal government embarking on a new “consent-based” search for someplace to dispose of nuclear waste, officials in Nye County sent a reminder this week that they still consent to burying it at Yucca Mountain.
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