UNLV fans have a new hero. The team may have also found a new superstar and it’s not even the same player.
Wade Leavitt scored four touchdowns in the first 19 minutes of the game Friday to lead Pahranagat Valley’s football team to a 60-8 win over visiting Carlin in a Division IV state semifinal.
The score at halftime didn’t quite tell the story of how dominating Arbor View had been, but another stat did.
With a nine-point lead late in the fourth quarter and his offense pinned deep in its own territory, Basic football coach Jeff Cahill made a gutsy call to put the ball in the air.
Valley’s Marco Gonzales came up short on his first shot Friday when his ball dinged the crossbar just three minutes into the match. But that didn’t discourage the sophomore from firing in shots the rest of the game.
Michaela Morris sat out the last 10 minutes of regulation Friday and left the game twice late with cramp issues.
RENO — Compared to his team’s normal ‘A’ game, Coronado girls volleyball coach Matt Johnson gave the Cougars a ‘B’ for their state semifinal win over Carson.
UNLV has been pretty strictly a man-to-man team defensively under coach Dave Rice. Expect that to change after how effective the zone was for the Rebels during the second half of Friday night’s win over Morehead State.
Mixed martial artist War Machine, accused of brutally assaulting his former girlfriend, must stand trial on all charges, a judge ruled Friday.
Seven former foster children alleging abuse and neglect in the child welfare system may soon receive a settlement in excess of $2 million from Clark County. The settlement will go before the Clark County Commission for approval during its Tuesday meeting.
Julian Dragomir, Kevin Partida and Danny Musovski scored, and Ryan Harding made five saves as UNLV defeated Missouri-Kansas City 3-0 to reach the championship game of the Western Athletic Conference men’s soccer tournament in Seattle.
Since landing on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko some 311 million miles (500 million kilometers) away, the lander has performed a series of tests and sent reams of data, including photos, back to Earth.
An Idaho biology teacher is facing possible disciplinary action after killing and skinning a rabbit in class to show students where their food comes from.
Tom Hawley climbs aboard the KSNV-TV’s traffic helicopter well before sunrise to get the first look at what the day will bring. It’s something he’s done at Channel 3 for nearly 20 years, one of the longest tenured television news reporters in the Las Vegas market.
Seventeen dollars doesn’t sound like a lot until it adds up to a $5.4 million loss. To the Clark County School Board, it was cause for outrage Friday after hearing that the state will provide $17 less per student in funding than pledged this school year.
Unless you’ve been stuck in a mine shaft for the past few decades, chances are you’ve heard of Bob Marley and Usain Bolt. Beyond reggae and track icons, however, there are many fascinating things less widely known about Jamaica that make this island of just 3 million people stand out.
Following a week of interviews, campus tours, meetings and forums, all three finalists for UNLV president on Monday will have an opportunity to address the Nevada System of Higher Education presidential search committee at a public meeting at the Marietta Tiberti Grand Hall in the Richard Tam Alumni Center.
Gina Gavan, the woman tasked with brokering the economic development deals that could make or break cash-strapped North Las Vegas, started Monday .
Wyoming authorities on Thursday warned residents of a sprawling Indian reservation to be on the lookout for a dangerous predator suspected in the death of a 40-year-old woman who died after being attacked by at least one unidentified animal.
The 2014-15 contract for Clark County’s public school administrators will cost $5.29 million more than the previous year due largely to a 2.79 percent across-the-board pay increase for 1,300 staff.
An Arkansas teenager’s attempt to land a driver’s license landed him in jail after he was charged with driving to the test site without a license and smashing into a state trooper’s patrol car and a house when trying to flee.
The largest drive-through light show in the western United States was unveiled Thursday.
Fifty years ago, Bonanza Airlines Flight 114 from Phoenix was on approach to McCarran Field when it slammed into the top of the mountain and tumbled, scattering wreckage across the rocky plateau. The crash killed everyone on board — 29 people doomed by a faulty chart in a freak snow storm.
One man is in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle in the southeast valley Thursday night, according to Las Vegas police.
The last famous person who phoned me after showering was Bill Cosby, a few years ago. This time, it’s Iliza Shlesinger, but she’s not trying to be sexy with me. She’s having hair issues and needs to multitask.
Clark County commissioners are scheduled to reintroduce the oft-derided sales tax proposal on Tuesday.
North Las Vegas police are investigating the death of a 1-year-old boy who was hospitalized earlier this week and later died.
Imagine Dragons will perform a concert in their hometown of Vegas, to raise money for a kids cancer charity the band started.
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