ATLANTA — The idea was to not miss left. If he did, Tim Henderson would be forced to retrieve the basketball by running down the long ravine that bordered the driveway of his family home, the one sitting on 10 acres of rural Louisville land, the one with a backdrop of nothing but open space and woods, the one where a Final Four hero was born from thousands of jump shots launched into another bright orange sunset.
This is what one coach in tonight’s national championship of college basketball was asked about Sunday:
What was considered a crapshoot a few weeks ago is now a game in Rick Pitino’s control. He has been rolling such a hot pair of dice, the odds are in his favor.
Paula Birch has a message for high school students and, particularly, young immigrants: The military has much to offer, including hope. She is living proof.
A few legislators got taken on April Fools’ Day by whoppers told by David Byerman, secretary of the Senate.
A fledgling intelligence squadron at Nellis Air Force Base put all its pieces together for the first time in a recent Red Flag air combat exercise. But now it may experience a setback.
The city of Las Vegas, the epicenter for squatters, was the first to pass a bill making lenders responsible for vacant homes in limbo because the foreclosure process hasn’t been finalized.
UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center needs renovations, and university officials are moving to get funding approved to bring it up to code, officials said Friday.
Max McAndrew sits under the watchful eye of Johnny Cash and his middle finger amid a wall full of vinyl records inside the green room at Vinyl, the Hard Rock Hotel’s 650-person music venue.
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In the early 1990s, women became aware that they could identify and secure “options.” That same spirit has moved into the retirement camp, where men are designing theirs by using no-nonsense job-hunting tactics.
In a city where business plans are synonymous with rapid growth, Chris Denzel is content to take one step at a time.
The 6,000 “zombie foreclosures” are just a subset of the estimated 40,481 vacant single-family homes in the Las Vegas Valley, said Marcus Conklin, associate director of the Lied Institute for Real Estate Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The company behind a controversial proposal to use eminent domain to seize mortgages has set its sights on North Las Vegas, where a majority of homeowners are eligible to reduce their loan payments through the program.
Interested in money? Well, there’s a conference for that.
Fueled by increases in consumer demand and competitive market prices, overdrafts in the United States made a strong comeback last year, a study by Moebs Services, a Lake Bluff, Ill., economic research firm, shows.
If Carlos Batiste has gauged the market correctly, many people would like to pick up a bag of jerk chicken-flavored popcorn on their way through McCarran International Airport.
Blake Shelton played “Boys ‘Round Here” with Luke Bryan, his co-host of the 48th annual Academy of Country Music Awards, as well as Sheryl Crow, the Pistol Annies and Brad Paisley, who ripped a mean guitar solo while walking through the crowd toward the stage at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday.
Robbing the Kraft Nabisco Championship of another exciting finish, Inbee Park doubled her lead to six strokes over playing partner Lizette Salas on the par-4 opening hole and ran away with her second major title.
The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning for Southern Nevada from 3 a.m. Monday to 11 p.m. Monday. A strong Pacific storm is expected to bring very gusty winds to the area through Monday evening. Also, there is a 30 percent chance of scattered showers.
