Usually, fighters will segregate themselves from their opponents while they train to do battle. So it was somewhat strange to be at Barry’s Boxing on Wednesday and see Kell Brook inside the ring hitting the mitts while no less than 30 feet away stood Shawn Porter, shadow-boxing in front of a mirror.
UNLV has plenty of competition taking place throughout its lineup. This is a closer look at the various battles.
He was doing fine, talking about his victory over the NCAA, how thousands of future student-athletes will benefit from a judge’s decision Friday and how he was OK with not making a dime off a landmark case that made American sports history.
In late May 2013, news spread like wildfire through the Legislative Building that one-time power broker Harvey Whittemore had been convicted of making illegal campaign contributions to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Somebody pass out the helmets. A dispute over who created one of the most famous and effective presidential campaign advertisements in recent history is getting nasty.
The Clark County School District’s growing enrollment and pursuit of smaller class sizes has led to a familiar problem — a shortage of licensed educators.
What’s the first order of business in improving Nevada’s health care system?
If you want government to live up to the ideals under which this country was formed, you’re going to be called names.
Jose Verdugo kept finding himself in clutch situations Saturday night.
Jose Verdugo kept finding himself in clutch situations Saturday night.
On April 28, three youth escaped from Red Rock Academy, a state juvenile correction facility in Clark County. The facility, which opened in December, was placed on a corrective action plan. Security flaws were addressed and staff members involved in the incident were disciplined.
He went from cool to hot in less time than it just took to read about him doing so. Justin Timberlake started the song in command of his passions, his voice a dog on a leash.
Mountain Ridge Little League beat the representatives from Northern California 11-2 to win the West Regional championship.
He had seen a transplant brochure from University Medical Center and it said that people who wanted to donate a kidney had to be age 55 or younger. Here he was at age 66 and in perfect health being told he couldn’t donate a kidney to the love of his life, his dear Mindy, even if his blood type was compatible.
One of Nevada’s seven most-wanted cheats was recently taken into custody at the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, Pa. But six remain. Here are their stories. Bright red letters spelling “CAPTURED” now cross out Chahine’s mug shot on the most-wanted list of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, which alerted other states about Chahine’s past. Now six photos remain — criminals still at-large and responsible for thousands in casino theft.
A Las Vegas family that faced more than $1 million in unpaid medical bills due to a state insurance exchange mix-up is finally covered.
Healthcare.gov is supposed to fix Nevada’s Obamacare sign-up woes. But with consumer faith in exchanges badly shaken, not to mention lingering technical concerns with the incomplete federal site, observers say the Silver State is all but sure to face headwinds when enrollment begins again on Nov. 15.
New VA Secretary Robert McDonald laid out his plans Saturday for fixing the scandal-rocked Department of Veterans Affairs, telling the National Disabled American Veterans convention in Las Vegas “it’s an opportunity we can’t miss nor underestimate.”
A green birthday cake decorated with trees and candles in the shape of the number 70 commemorated Smokey Bear’s birthday at Mount Charleston on Saturday.
A suicidal gunman climbed through the window of a friend’s house at the Elko Indian Colony and asked her to videotape him killing himself before he eventually fatally shot another friend who lived in the home, federal prosecutors say.
A man is dead after a two-vehicle crash in the southeast valley early Saturday morning.
Authorities say a 17-year-old has been arrested in the death and sexual assault of a 6-year-old girl whose body was found near the mobile home park she vanished from last weekend.
For years, Oscar-winning screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin resisted the idea of a stage musical based on his 1990 Hollywood hit “Ghost” — until he teamed up with a Tony-winning director and Grammy-winning songwriters.
Minneapolis police were investigating a shooting inside a downtown nightclub that injured 9 people early Saturday, including a Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle.
Enchanted fairy-tale creatures wave their freak flags at Spring Mountain Ranch during Super Summer Theatre’s “Shrek the Musical” in an exuberant presentation by Feral Tale Theatricals.
Each week Neon spotlights a different cuisine in the Dining Guide, with Italian restaurants this week.
For the first time, U.S. public schools are projected this fall to have more minority students than non-Hispanic whites, a shift largely fueled by growth in the number of Hispanic children.
