Derrick Legardy probably wouldn’t have spent much time on the floor in the second half Tuesday if not for a shoulder injury to starting guard Greg Banks.
Head-to-head. The debate seems much clearer today, which isn’t good news for Baylor’s football team.
Deja Siaki’s 3-pointer with 2.5 seconds left in the game Tuesday lifted Silverado’s girls basketball team to a 45-44 win over visiting Cimarron-Memorial.
Anthony Merchant made 7 of 8 free throws in the fourth quarter and finished with 15 points Tuesday to help host Del Sol’s boys basketball team to a 73-69 win over Eldorado.
Jadyn McArthur completed 34 of 42 passes for 392 yards and six touchdowns Tuesday as Foothill’s flag football team rolled past visiting Las Vegas, 38-0.
An audit of the state Department of Transportation found that weak controls over procurement of supplies resulted in a case where a stockroom employee made $250,000 in fraudulent purchases over a four-year period.
Don’t leave home without an umbrella and a coat on Tuesday because rain is likely coming to the valley, according to the National Weather Service.
A federal appeals court has overturned a ruling that allowed the new owner of the Crazy Horse Too to use the strip club’s name.
The NBA season finally has begun for reigning MVP Kevin Durant — seven weeks late — but the league’s top scorer last season made no excuses for the New Orleans Pelicans’ 112-104 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder Tuesday night at the Smoothie King Center.
Jared Leto, Will Smith, Tom Hardy, Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney and Cara Delevingne will make up the all-star cast of Warner Bros.’ supervillain tentpole “Suicide Squad,” it was announced on Tuesday.
UNLV fans who haven’t paid much attention to Arizona State this season will have to be thrilled when they see the Sun Devils take the court and Jahii Carson is nowhere to be seen. The cupboard is not bare for Herb Sendek’s team, though.
CARSON CITY — Las Vegas Assemblyman John Hambrick has been picked as speaker designate by the 25-member GOP caucus.
Whatever the coach wants, Patrick McCaw says he’s willing to do it. All players say it, and some actually mean it. McCaw means it, because he was raised as the son of a coach.
Following more than three hours of public testimony Tuesday, Clark County commissioners put off for 24 hours a vote on a Clark County regulation governing the operation of slot machines so various amendments introduced just before the hearing could be incorporated into a final version.
Space tourists may soon be plunking down six figures and buying passage to a low-earth orbit – but they should know there are likely to be health risks, experts say.
HENDERSON (AP) — Police say nobody was injured after a man drove through the front of a post office in Henderson. City spokeswoman Kathleen Richards says the crash happened at about 1 p.m. Tuesday on St. Rose Parkway near Eastern Avenue.
A man and woman, both in their 80s, were hospitalized after they were struck by a car in a Tuesday evening hit-and-run crash in the west valley, according to Las Vegas police.
The woman who said through a lawyer that she believes she was the driver in a hit-and-run crash that killed a Las Vegas man who was pushing his grandchild in a stroller has surrendered to police, according to an attorney.
In a move criticized by former federal prosecutors, defense lawyers in the homeowners association fraud case are looking into whether the Las Vegas Review-Journal improperly obtained now-secret government reports on failed plea negotiations with the lead defendant.
A man known as the “pantyhose prankster” behind thousands of random, lurid phone calls on the East Coast died Nov. 25 after police said he was stabbed in a scuffle over a change jar on the Strip.
Bobby Keys, whose swampy saxophone was as key a component of the peak-period Rolling Stones as Clarence Clemons’ sax was for the E Street Band, has died at age 70, in Middle Tennessee. Multiple news reports cited cirrhosis as the cause of death.
UNLV English professor Mustapha Marrouchi was fired last month after a university review found he plagiarized the works of 18 people.
Rain hit the Las Vegas Valley on Tuesday, leaving roads slick and the air cool.
UNLV wide receiver Devonte Boyd was named freshman of the year in Mountain West on Tuesday. Brett Boyko was named all-conference second team.
The VA’s Southern Nevada Healthcare System passed an unannounced review of its scheduling practices for timely care with flying colors, VA officials said Tuesday.
The Legacy Tip-Off Classic shrunk in size this season. But what the boys basketball tournament lacks in quantity, it more than makes up for in quality.
A Texas man is behind bars and lucky to be alive after he broke into a home and was confronted by the gun-wielding homeowner.
Florida has targeted Colorado State’s Jim McElwain to fill its coaching vacancy.
Republicans were scheduled to meet in Las Vegas on Tuesday night to select the new speaker, majority leader and committee chairs for the 2015 Legislature.
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