As long as there is boxing and judges are used to determine the outcome of fights, controversy will be just one head-scratching scorecard away.
McKenzie Fujan scored eight of her game-high 17 points in a game-breaking 12-0 run midway through the second half to help carry Creighton (6-6) to a 66-56 victory over UNLV (3-9) on Saturday night at Cox Pavilion.
Fresno State quarterback Derek Carr looked in pain as he sat down at the post-game news conference Saturday.
Three months after taking the job of managing Project Neon, the massive job of reconstructing the highways and streets south of Las Vegas’ infamous Spaghetti Bowl, Cole Mortensen received an invitation to try something new in Nevada.
Students one nudge away from dropping out will go to teacher Rodney Ball’s class but skip all others.
Hundreds of parents lined up in the cold to pick up bags of toys for their children at the Cashman Field Center Saturday morning.
An intriguing email crossed my desk this past week from the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance.
Las Vegas police are looking for a victim who was shot at a barbershop inside the Edmond Town Center shopping complex Saturday night.
One resident suffered heat stroke and blistering on his thighs after Nevada State Veterans Home staff left him in the summer sun.
Congress last week completed action on a two-year budget blueprint aimed at averting another government shutdown and blunting the sharp impact of a second round of sequestration cuts.
Jessica Hargrove needed persistence to get the Clark County Department of Family Services to act on concerns about her 17-month-old son in foster care.
A Lake Tahoe couple filed a police report saying they received numerous death threats and harassing messages after reporting problems with a black bear that was captured and euthanized by Nevada wildlife officials.
Need a body part? How does a $2 arm or $5 leg sound? Alison Wainwright is here to help.
The Junior League of Las Vegas Sustainers had its annual Holiday Coffee and charitable program for children at Jeri and Rick Crawford’s lovely home on Dec. 14.
A suburban Denver high school student who was shot in the head by a classmate died Saturday afternoon, hospital officials said in a statement.
If you don’t like the postage stamp-sized lots that were popular in Las Vegas during the housing boom, take heart.
If you’re counting on some level of certainty for your 2014 federal tax bill, it’s not the most wonderful time of year. As in years past, dozens of “temporary” provisions are due to expire Dec. 31.
The parents of a young girl with leukemia are suing Renown Regional Medical Center and its former pediatric oncologist, claiming they misrepresented the Reno hospital’s ability to care for their child and violated the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
Comprehensive immigration reform is not a complicated issue, and in fact, it’s not a controversial one. It is an issue that the vast majority of Nevadans support, that many are willing to fight for, and that a bipartisan coalition of leaders have taken action to vote for, with one glaring exception: Rep. Joe Heck.
One blessing of the holiday season is upon us: The prospect that members of Congress will actually stay away from Washington for a few weeks, leaving what’s left of our liberties and livelihoods alone until the new year.
Some Nevadans in the news have been naughty this year. Some have been nice. And some, to no one’s surprise, have been downright stupid.
My mom decided it was time to give me the ol’ sex talk when I came home asking my older sister to interpret terms I’d never before heard. Terms tossed around by neighborhood junior high girls wearing excessive eyeliner. Terms that cocked a fourth-grader’s head and had her wondering what a cherry, much less a “popped cherry,” had to do with anything.
