Having coached in bowls as well as the weekly pressure cooker that is the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs, UNLV coach Bobby Hauck has no doubt in his mind which system he prefers.
The folks at Southern Methodist University, where UNLV’s football team is practicing this week, sure know how to mess with visitors.
If you were at the South Point over the weekend and made a wrong turn at the Garden Buffet, you might have stumbled onto a basketball game that looked like 1964. Nearly all of the players had short hair, with the taller ones appearing to be 6 feet 3 inches. They did not dunk the basketball. They took care of it, though, and they ran plays. They set screens for each other, passed to each other, cheered for each other.
A bomb blast tore through a trolleybus in the city of Volgograd on Monday morning, killing at least 10 people a day after a suicide bombing that killed at 17 at the city’s main railway station.
Republic Services, which provides Clark County’s trash removal and recycling services, is designing a new facility to prepare for a widening trend in single-stream recycling, which allows the public to do recycling without sorting the materials.
There were a lot of adjectives used to describe the gruesome broken left leg suffered by Anderson Silva in the main event of UFC 168 on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden.
State officials say they will miss the Legislature’s April 1 deadline to begin accepting applications from medical marijuana providers and growers.
The notion that people who live in Nevada illegally don’t purchase auto insurance stops at the stairwell that leads to the second floor of Aztec Insurance just east of the Strip.
New Year’s is about fresh beginnings and new goals. I have a couple of goals for you this year. I challenge you to be able to do one unassisted pullup and/or one body-weight squat by next year.
Office workers in search of snacks will be counting calories along with their change under new labeling regulations for vending machines included in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law.
It didn’t always look pretty, and Republican partisans will be sure to howl, but on the whole U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada had a noteworthy year, according to pundits in their 2013 reviews.
Dust off those glitter pants and top hats, it’s almost New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas.
Blues guitarist Tommy Bankhead rubbed shoulders with some of the genre’s royalty, from Howlin’ Wolf and Elmore James to Albert King and Sonny Boy Williamson.
Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher was in critical condition after undergoing brain surgery following a skiing accident in the French Alps on Sunday, doctors said.
Covering the following highlights of 2013: overcrowding in schools, LAPD officer Christopher Dorner’s southwest house, Mother and two children dead in southwest home, Wet ‘n’ Wild opens, retired teacher Joy Bartlett continues teaching.
The Las Vegas Fire Department reached a historic milestone by having responded to 100,000 calls in one year by Dec. 28, according to a press release by the Department.
When you live in Las Vegas and think about health care, it’s often too easy at the end of the year to find something negative to focus on — a hepatitis outbreak caused by medical professionals not following basic precautions, a TB outbreak caused for the same reason.
The valley’s new Veterans Affairs Medical Center has been a model of consistency — it’s had problems from the very beginning. The facility’s cost ran way over an initial estimate of $286 million to about $1 billion. Since opening in 2012 (some three years late), there have been issues with quality of care, highlighted most recently by the case of Navy veteran Sandra Niccum.
Eric Goodman, a Las Vegas justice of the peace and son of Mayor Carolyn Goodman and Oscar Goodman, suffered a severe head injury at a Summerlin park nearly two weeks ago, but it’s unknown how he got his wounds, police told the Review-Journal Saturday.
We like our Supreme Court justices in Nevada. In fact, the 2013 Judicial Performance Evaluation poll of more than 300 lawyers in Clark County found that the majority believe each of the seven justices should remain on the bench.
The family of Jahi McMath declared brain dead after complications from tonsil surgery was running out of time Sunday to find a new facility to take her in and keep her on a ventilator.
Clark County lawyers think voters should give the boot to 12 of the 90 judges they rated in the 2013 Judicial Performance Evaluation, including five in Family Court.
Residents of this facility for people with Alzheimer’s disease toss around a yellow ball and laugh under a cascade with their caregivers, in a swimming pool ringed by palm trees and wind chimes. Susanna Kuratli, once a painter of delicate oils, swims a lap and smiles.
A December surge propelled health care sign-ups through the government’s rehabilitated website past the 1 million mark, the Obama administration said Sunday, reflecting new vigor for the problem-plagued federal insurance market.
Due to a last-minute comeback directed by quarterback Cam Newton, the Carolina Panthers are on the verge of something that seemed improbable in September.
Authorities say a man suspected of killing three people and setting fire to a home in southern Colorado has been captured in Oklahoma after a nationwide manhunt.