There might not be any bigger hermits in college athletics than head football coaches, secluded from society in dark film rooms and often absent from social events that don’t include glad-handing those boosters with deep pockets.
Baseball has a history of players sustaining unusual injuries.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, John Church (1-0); Aces, Charles Brewer (4-9)
The Southern Nevada Bulls of Arbor View High begin play in the Connie Mack West Regional baseball tournament at 2 p.m. today in Bellevue, Wash.
Coaches who take over football programs usually inherit messes left behind by previous staffs that failed to get the job done.
During the 2013 Legislature’s debate over a bill to require background checks for almost all private-party gun sales, there were plenty of what-ifs.
As much as the Obama administration would like to move past the IRS scandal, the ongoing work of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is making it impossible for the president to declare the story old news.
The free market dictates most of the business successes and failures we encounter on a daily basis. If you can find a niche, raise the capital and answer demand, you might succeed. If you can’t, you’ll fail.
Las Vegas police shot an underwear-clad, knife-wielding man who barricaded himself inside a south valley home Tuesday night.
A hiker in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area is in serious condition after falling 40 feet, according to the Las Vegas Fire Department.
TORONTO — Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp, who finished runner-up to Ryan Braun in voting for the 2011 National League Most Valuable Player award, thinks the suspended Milwaukee Brewers slugger should be stripped of the honor.
Two Nevada women received federal prison terms Tuesday for defrauding the Nevada Medicaid program out of roughly $1 million.
Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson appeared more relaxed at media days this week than in recent years and perhaps even more confident, too.
Boise State and San Diego State are back. San Jose State and Utah State, football teams coming off 11-win seasons, are in.
A boost in results from its social gaming products helped slot machine maker International Game Technology increase profits and revenues in the third quarter.
The Rev. Marion D. Bennett Sr., former Nevada assemblyman and defender of civil rights who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s and founded the first black Methodist church in Las Vegas, has died.
Stephen Zimmerman needed a good laugh, so a few months ago he went into his bedroom closet and grabbed his shoes.
Federal investigators have recovered the flight data and cockpit voice recorders of a plane whose front landing gear collapsed, sending it skidding along the tarmac at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport.
The new owners of the Las Vegas 51s baseball team are making the rounds to three main stakeholders in their bid to draw public financing for a new minor league ballpark in Summerlin, and they hope to have a game plan for their campaign in two to four weeks.
Carmine’s, founded in New York more than 20 years ago, opened an outlet at Caesars Palace this month. The 750-seat Southern Italian restaurant has the traditional decor of its sister restaurants in New York, Atlantic City, Washington, D.C., and the Bahamas, such as high ceilings, antique chandeliers and black-and-white photos of Southern Italian families to which Carmine’s culinary tradition traces its roots. Here’s a sample of the menu:
Troubled former Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson on Tuesday pleaded no contest to domestic violence charges stemming from an October allegation he beat and strangled his ex-girlfriend.
There were plenty who were disappointed recently when the U.S. Supreme Court decided California’s Proposition 8 gay-marriage case without really rendering an opinion.
Nathan Adelson Hospice knows the needs of the Hispanic community when it comes to end-of-life services.
David Spade is co-starring in “Grown Ups 2” — one of the most popular comedies of the summer, even though critics don’t like it.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s choice to be the No. 2 official at the Homeland Security Department is under investigation for his role in helping a company run by a brother of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Associated Press has learned.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
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