Raychel Stanley scored 20 points Saturday to help Bishop Gorman’s girls basketball team to a 68-53 win over Horizon Christian (Calif.) in the SoCal Holiday Prep Classic in San Diego.
UNLV coach Dave Rice admitted he was concerned about a possible letdown Saturday night against Southern Utah. Not only had the Rebels split a pair of consecutive games against ranked teams, a loss to Utah followed by the win over Arizona, but there are two big games on the horizon.
Canyon Springs’ girls basketball team would have done just about anything to shave the last three minutes off of its second game Saturday.
With eight minutes to play Saturday, Las Vegas High’s boys basketball team was cruising to an easy win to capture its pool in the Las Vegas Prep Championship.
The Durango girls basketball team hasn’t done much since its last game on Dec. 16, and the rustiness showed in the first half Saturday.
You don’t get more local than Little League. Mountain Ridge united the community as few teams have, a group of 14 players who became the first team in Nevada history to make the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. Columnist Ed Graney has their story at the top of his 2014 list.
Max Hisatake and Jake Epstein each scored 19 points Saturday to lead The Meadows’ boys basketball team to a 74-63 victory over Chadwick School (Calif.) in the Vegas Invitational at Mountain View.
Darrian Traylor led four scorers in double figures with 16 points Saturday as Centennial’s boys basketball team topped Northwood (Calif.) 67-51 in the Estancia/Tustin Classic in Tustin, Calif.
The frontcourt — Chris Wood, specifically — set the bar high for the Rebels on Saturday night. The Rebels dominated Southern Utah, 79-45, earning above-average grades across the board. UNLV avoided a letdown after Tuesday’s big win over Arizona.
One way to wake up a bored crowd is with a windmill dunk, and Chris Wood threw down a thunderous one. A lightning-strike streak of 3-pointers also can do the trick, and Rashad Vaughn made three during a two-minute stretch in the second half. And the Rebels rolled over Southern Utah, 79-45.
An AirAsia flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday, Indonesian media said, citing a Transport Ministry official. The airline, described as a budget carrier, confirmed that flight QZ 8501 had lost contact with 162 aboard.
When the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association voted 6-3 to fly south to Florida, it started the gears turning on one of the biggest sports stories of the year. Columnist Ron Kantowski looks at half of the year’s biggest sports stories.
Chris Wood and Rashad Vaughn each scored 22 points as UNLV rolled to a 79-45 victory over Southern Utah at the Thomas & Mack Center.
A coyote hunting contest on Saturday drew howls of protest from animal welfare advocates. Activists branded the contest as unethical and say they’ll push for legislation to ban similar events in Nevada in the future.
A packed train in Sri Lanka that was swept off the tracks by waves as big as elephants. A boat patrolling off Thailand’s shore hurled more than a mile inland. Streets in Indonesia turned into roaring rivers that carried people to their deaths.
A Las Vegas Walgreens was packed with customers early Saturday afternoon, one day after a store employee was shot and killed by an armed robber.
New Year’s Eve prediction for Las Vegas: It definitely will be cold and it probably will snow.
A 24-year-old police officer and a suspect died after a shootout Saturday afternoon. Officer Tyler Stewart, 24, died at Flagstaff Medical Center after he was shot by a suspect in a domestic-violence case, police said.
Sony’s PlayStation network was offline Friday and gamers were still reporting problems on Saturday. Microsoft’s Xbox Live service, which also went down Thursday, was back online Friday although the company reported reported problems with some functions in the afternoon.
One woman was shot and another woman was arrested in a domestic dispute in the northwest valley on Saturday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
Chicago Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro was questioned by Dominican Republic authorities in connection with a Saturday morning nightclub shooting.
The average checking account comes with about 30 fees, according to WalletHub, and not all of them are as easy to predict as overdraft or monthly service charges. Here are some of the sneakier fees that come attached to your standard bank account — and how you can make sure they don’t deplete your savings.
The Rebels host Southern Utah tonight at the Thomas & Mack. Tip is at 7:00 p.m.
Las Vegas police are seeking the public’s help Saturday in identifying a man in connection with a robbery in the central valley.
The man who tried to kill former Pope John Paul II 33 years ago showed up at the Vatican on Saturday to put white roses on his tomb and said he wanted to meet Pope Francis.
Tax-filing time is around the corner, and this season will be the first in which the Affordable Care Act figures heavily. To that end, the Internal Revenue Service has a new, 21-page publication on what taxpayers need to know as they get ready to file this spring.
The presents are unwrapped. The children’s shrieks of delight are just a memory. Now it’s time for another Yuletide tradition: cleaning up the needles that are falling off your Christmas tree.
MOGADISHU — A leader of Somali Islamist group al Shabaab, who has a $3 million U.S. bounty on his head, has surrendered, a Somali government official and local media said on Saturday, although the militants said he had long left their organization.
Gordon, who led the NFL in yards receiving last season, served a 10-game suspension for repeated drug violations earlier this year.
A shooting rampage that left two Las Vegas police officers, a good Samaritan and the two attackers dead, a standoff between the feds and a Southern Nevada rancher, the legalization of gay marriage in the Silver State, and a political storm that left Republicans in charge of the Legislature and all state offices topped the news in 2014.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
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Las Vegas teen killed in minibike crash had 10 times legal limit for pot, report says
Mom killed in fatal crash near 215 Beltway identified
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school