Caesars Entertainment Corp. Chairman Gary Loveman tops the list of the four 2013 inductees into the Gaming Hall of Fame, but his acceptance speech isn’t going to be about his career.
The 2013 waterfowl season got off to a good start with local hunters bagging limits of resident birds and some early migrants, but the action slowed quickly as those birds moved out and balmy temperatures lingered over Southern Nevada. This has waterfowl hunters hoping that a weather front will come in from the northwest and begin pushing a few ducks and geese our way.
A proposal to raise money for Washoe County school repairs went down in defeat without a vote after a majority of county commissioners said they couldn’t support it.
The tide of health-insurance cancellations washing across the nation has reached some Nevadans.
■ LAKE MEAD — Cooler nights have dropped the water temperature around the lake, and with that fishing for smallmouth and largemouth bass has slowed. Some anglers still are having success by trolling with divers in water no deeper than 20 feet or casting squarebills and Texas-rigged worms. Striped bass seem to be holding in deeper water. Those who are catching fish are reeling in ones mostly in the 2- to 3-pound range.
In the second game of a third season under its current coaching staff, with what has been lauded as the best basketball team Dave Rice has featured at UNLV, this is today’s reality: The Rebels on Tuesday night were dominated by UC Santa Barbara out of the Big West Conference.
My competitive side clearly has gotten the better of me. But I can’t help it. I’m desperate.
Guys helped each other out during the flatbed trailer era of auto racing. It wasn’t so cutthroat then, and you could walk around the pits with a pack of Marlboros rolled up in the sleeve of your T-shirt, and nobody said anything. This is why I think Tom Pfundstein could have raced in those days.
Michael Blasko and Cole Krzmarzick kicked around the idea of attending the same college, but the seniors on the Bishop Gorman baseball team weren’t serious about it initially. Then they heard the recruiting pitch from first-year UNR coach Jay Johnson.
Chael Sonnen made only one request of his bosses at UFC as they tried to find him an opponent for the organization’s 20th anniversary card. Sonnen said he would be willing to fight anyone but Rashad Evans.
Follow the link for some of the top performances for the week of Nov. 4-9.
Social media allows people to connect to each other. Now they can connect to animals as well.
Follow the link for the latest football coaches poll.
Stop us if you’ve heard this before. Nevada ranked among the nation’s top states for foreclosures, according to a report Wednesday.
Follow the link for the area’s latest offensive leaders.
Immigration reform might be all but dead in Congress for this year but it is very much alive in the politics of Southern Nevada — and now it’s getting personal, too.
North Las Vegas officials might have to limit hours at Craig Ranch Regional Park’s skate park in the wake of graffiti cleanup crews’ first visit to the sprawling 170-acre park last week.
Under increasing pressure over its threshold for violence in PG-13 films, the Motion Picture Association of America defended its often-criticized rating system on Wednesday.
RENO — Nevada has failed to send almost 2,000 guardianship cases involving people with mental illnesses to be entered into a database of residents not allowed to have firearms, a state official said.
CARSON CITY— Nevada’s public employee retirement plan saw its overall long-term liability grow to $12.9 billion in Fiscal Year 2013 from $11.2 billion the year before, a new report shows.
CARSON CITY — An American Civil Liberties Union study released Wednesday found 3,278 inmates in the U.S. serving sentences of life in prison without parole for nonviolent crimes.
Dwayne Morgan, a 6-foot-7-inch forward from Baltimore, signed a national letter of intent with UNLV on the opening day of the early signing period.
Mike Tyson fought Spike Lee and lost. “Spike Lee took it and made me all by myself. Put me onstage pretty much emotionally naked, just baring my soul to people,” Tyson recalls. “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth” makes its televised debut at 8 p.m. Saturday on HBO.
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada delivered a pitch on Wednesday for Congress to peel back some of the secrecy surrounding the government’s collection of data on Americans, but intelligence officials said some of his plan might be unworkable.
District Judge Allan Earl will not seek re-election next year, the 13-year jurist announced Wednesday.
Four Marines were killed Wednesday in an accident at Camp Pendleton in Southern California, base officials said.
Nevadans are seeing big relief at the gasoline pumps, with prices falling an average 15 cents over the past month. AAA Nevada says the average statewide cost for a gallon of regular unleaded is $3.35.
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