Minnesota football plays in the Big Ten Conference, whose 12 members are located primarily in the Midwest. The league reaches from Nebraska in the west to Pennsylvania in the east. Its headquarters are in Illinois.
Jennifer Baumgartner faces similar issues that most new small-business owners have to deal with, especially the need for financing.
During the 1990s, Florida was known for former coach Steve Spurrier’s dynamic offenses. His 12-year tenure netted six Southeastern Conference championships and one national title.
Nearly an inch of rain has fallen in the northwest Las Vegas Valley courtesy of the long reach of Tropical Storm Lorena near Baja, Calif., but heavier stuff is expected on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.
Matt and Kelly are back, along with Golden Nugget sports book director Tony Miller, to give you their top football picks for the weekend.
Rosh Hashanna has pushed the vast majority of the area’s high school football games to Saturday this week. Here’s a look at some of the top matchups and storylines for Week 2.
The “new normal” in Nevada isn’t limited to slower economic and population growth. Southern Nevada has more political power than ever before, and while Clark County lawmakers are far from a unified front in Carson City, baby steps are being taken to erase longstanding inequities in regional funding.
An Arizona woman who spent more than two decades on death row was released on bond Friday after a judge ruled there’s no direct evidence linking her to the death of her young son, other than a purported confession to a detective whose honesty has been questioned.
In 1975, Rick Pitino was a year out of college, working as a graduate assistant coach, making $13,000 a year and sharing a Honolulu apartment with five other guys. But part of that life was crossing paths with well-known, established college basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian.
A new campaign to encourage Nevada college students to take a full course load each semester to help them earn degrees more quickly was adopted Thursday by the Board of Regents.
Three bail bondsmen were indicted on charges they robbed and extorted a female client they claimed owed them money, state prosecutors said.
Swiss airline Edelweiss has announced that it will launch twice weekly flights to Las Vegas starting in May.
U.S. births may be leveling off after dropping for four years in a row, suggesting that the economy and other factors aren’t stopping couples from having more children.
A woman ousted from her job as Carson City Animal Services manager amid public outrage over a dog’s euthanasia is suing the city.
Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez pleaded not guilty to a first-degree murder charge Friday following his indictment in the killing of a friend authorities say was shot five times in an industrial park.
About 50 members of the Nevada National Guard and others from the community participated in a memorial run Friday to honor the victims of a mass shooting at the Carson City IHOP restaurant on the second anniversary of the incident that took the lives of three guardsmen and another woman.
Boston dropped its bid to be considered a host community for a $1.2 billion gambling resort project proposed for the banks of the Mystic River, the state’s gambling commission announced Friday.
The Dallas Zoo will raise a pair of cheetah cubs with a Labrador retriever puppy, believing the dog will be a calming influence on the big cats as they grow to adulthood.
Week 1 picks from Chuck Edel and Ken Thomson of Pregame.com and Erin Rynning and Ted Sevransky of Sportsmemo.com.
William Rinne, a former Southern Nevada resident who started as a fisheries biologist for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and rose to serve as acting commissioner for the agency, has died in Massachusetts at age 68.
Virgin Galactic says it successfully conducted a second rocket-powered, supersonic test flight of the passenger spaceship it is developing.
In the 1939 movie version of “The Wizard of Oz,” the Cowardly Lion wistfully sings, “If I only had the nerve.”
A driver has confessed in a video posted online that he’s to blame for a wrong-way car crash stemming from a night of heavy drinking that killed another man and says he’s willing to take “full responsibility.”
We planted three creepers this spring, and all but one is thriving. The leaves are being stripped. I’ve checked at different times of day for bugs, but all I can see are a few ants. Any suggestions?
The big news at North Las Vegas’ Parks and Recreation department these days hasn’t yet gone public.
A summer that began with a string of hits whimpered to its conclusion after a run of underachievers. But with the arrival of autumn, grown-ups are finally welcomed back to the multiplexes.