In a season when UNLV was at least expected to hover in the neighborhood of the top in what has proven to be a second-rate Mountain West, things have sunk this low for the Rebels when talking positives: At least that 3-point streak remains intact.
Two undersized guards. Two loose balls. One season extended.
Chaparral girls coach Christopher McFarland had a gut feeling Marcia Hawkins would be key in his team’s first-round playoff game, as she was the only player on the team with any playoff experience.
Cimarron-Memorial girls basketball coach Tim Resch paced the sideline and muttered to himself late in the fourth quarter Wednesday as his team teetered on the brink of disaster.
Wade Leavitt’s baseline jumper with 0.9 seconds left gave Pahranagat Valley’s boys basketball team a 62-60 win over visiting Word of Life in the Division IV Southern League tournament on Wednesday.
The son of a woman killed in what police are calling a road rage shooting, who went out looking for a car that had nearly hit hers Feb. 12, had an earlier brush with road rage himself. Brandon Meyers, the 22-year-old son of Tammy Meyers identified by family on Tuesday, made public posts on social media with expletive-laden remarks about an incident last summer.
Henderson calendar highlights this week include Green Valley High School performances of “The Little Mermaid.”
Lance Armstrong has pleaded guilty to careless driving for side-swiping two parked cars in the Colorado ski resort of Aspen late last year in an incident for which his girlfriend initially took the blame, authorities said on Wednesday.
When an animal in the wild gets hungry, there aren’t a lot of options. It’s not like they can go to the grocery store, right? No, they have to catch their supper, and while nature’s given some of them speed and claws to do that efficiently, potential meals have a few tricks on their side, too.
A 2006 graduate of Cimarron-Memorial High School, Mackenzie Mack had a stellar junior golf career with experience on several national and international tours.
The deaths of two patients at a Los Angeles hospital are linked to the deadly bacteria CRE and more than 100 other patients may have been exposed to the drug-resistant superbug, a spokeswoman for the UCLA Health System said Wednesday.
While he continued to deny his guilt, Robert Jackson, convicted of shooting four people on the Las Vegas Strip, including a tourist who was celebrating her bachelorette party, asked a judge Wednesday for a sentence of two to seven-and-a-half years behind bars.
Alana Cesarz scored 27 points to power UNLV to a 74-60 win over Boise State in a Mountain West women’s basketball game Wednesday in Boise, Idaho.
Someone is trying to scam people out of thousands of dollars by using District Judge Jennifer Togliatti’s name in phony court papers.
The students and staff of Tarkanian Middle School honored the late and great Jerry Tarkanian during a basketball game against Faiss Middle School.
In a galaxy far, far away … in the Western Caribbean, actually, Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Boba Fett and stormtroopers party with Disney Cruisers around the pool deck. Disney Cruise Line announced last week it will introduce Star Wars Day at Sea in 2016.
The NFL reportedly fired an employee for selling footballs involved in the controversy of underinflated balls in the AFC Championship Game.
Ultimate Fighting Championship executives laid out plans Wednesday to deal with a recent wave of positive drug tests in the organization. The UFC will advocate athletic commissions to increase penalties, expand funding for out-of-competition testing and implement random testing for all 585 athletes on the company’s roster.
School teachers and administrators today are learning that they must always assume they are on hidden camera. The latest to make the rude discovery is a principal in Haverstraw, New York.
Vaping is hazardous and should be treated like smoking cigarettes, the Southern Nevada Health District said Wednesday in backing a proposal to tax electronic cigarettes and their components as if they were tobacco.
A sweeping gun bill was introduced in the Nevada Senate on Wednesday, seeking a wide range of legal changes from justifiable homicide to precluding people convicted of domestic violence from having firearms.
We skiers and snowboarders dwelling in Southern Nevada mostly haunt our beloved and handy Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort. But sometimes we want a change of slopes and scenery for just a few days. One of the best getaways for that purpose is the Arizona Snowbowl near Flagstaff. It’s not only close enough for easy access but also has the advantage of excellent nearby nightlife.
Nevada’s race books found themselves with fewer thoroughbred racing tracks to offer bettors Wednesday when negotiations broke down between the Nevada Pari-Mutuel Association and Monarch Content Management, which owns and operates several racetracks, including Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif., and Gulfstream in Hallandale Beach, Fla.
Under Armour announced Wednesday it will launch a “lifestyle apparel” line bearing Muhammad Ali’s likeness and motivational phrases next month.
Plans to spend public money on a proposed Las Vegas soccer stadium might have flat-lined, but city leaders aren’t quite ready to sign the death certificate.
A Las Vegas man and his mother have been indicted by a federal grand jury in what prosecutors say was the arson of a North Las Vegas convenience store that left a man dead.
Niko, a champion Great Dane co-owned by North Las Vegas resident owner Tuesday James, former assistant to Ward 6 Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Ross, won Best of Breed Feb. 17 at the Westminster American Kennel Club Dog Show in New York City.
The man who was shot and killed in his southwest valley garage Monday morning has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office Wednesday morning.