Students at a Catholic secondary school in Iowa say their new assembly dress code is pretty sexist.
Griffin Jax pitched eight strong innings, and Tyler Saleck went 5-for-5 with a home run, three doubles and five RBIs to power Air Force to a 12-1 win over UNLV in a Mountain West baseball game Friday in Colorado Springs, Colo.
President Obama, appearing on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Thursday, played along with the host in riffs on birthers, mean Tweets and Hillary Clinton’s email address.
Former UNLV guard Bryce Dejean-Jones left the program last year after he was threatened with gun violence by a teammate, according to a story in the Ames (Iowa) Tribune. Dejean-Jones, a senior who is finishing his career at Iowa State, reflected on a collegiate run that began at Southern California and included a three-year stint at UNLV.
Boise State defeats New Mexico 66-60 to win the Mountain West women’s basketball tournament at the Thomas & Mack Center, giving the Broncos the conference’s automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.
A Black Hawk helicopter that went down in waters off the Florida Panhandle three days ago — killing 11 service members — had aborted a training mission due to bad weather before it crashed, a military official said Friday.
Wynn Resorts Ltd. General Counsel Kim Sinatra will be the 2015 speaker for the annual Robert D. Faiss Lecture on Gaming Law and Policy at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law.
Being an elite athlete is a serious business with its years of non-stop training and tournaments, so it’s probably a relief for athletes to participate in events that don’t require the standard “giving 110 percent” in sports.
A man who beat his neighbor to death because the victim’s children were being too noisy has been indicted on a murder charge, prosecutors said Friday.
The second of two bills aimed at making college more affordable for Nevada students attracted strong support in a hearing Friday before the Senate Education Committee.
Clark County has reached a tentative deal to pay $85,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the father of a 7-year-old boy who died at the hands of his mother and stepfather.
Chameleons, if not known for their freaky eyes, are known for their ability to change colors.
A woman who was in struck by a car Wednesday morning in the southwest valley has died, according to Las Vegas police.
Matt Palance stood in his share of lines in the military, but nothing quite prepared him for the frustrating experience he received during recent trips to the Henderson Department of Motor Vehicles.
Morgan Kankoski won two individual events Wednesday to lift host Adelson School’s boys swimming team to a 96-66 win over Moapa Valley.
Game developer High 5 Games said slot machine giant International Game Technology violated numerous conditions of a licensing agreement and failed to pay the company royalties from gambling features used on 81 different game titles.
Comic books of the past few years have seen a lot of changes (a female Thor, anyone?) but not quite so many at one time.
The tech industry needs to change its culture that has not been inviting for women, some observers say, if it wants to fill a projected growth in jobs.
Transit police in Washington, D.C., fatally shot a man they encountered in a subway tunnel without authorization on Thursday, officials said.
The National Park Service is warning people to stay out of the water in parts of Lake Mead National Recreation Area now being colonized by a potentially toxic blue-green algae.
Police arrested nine teenagers from a Los Angeles high school on Friday in connection with sexual assaults and unlawful sex acts against two students, and investigators are seeking five more minors who also are suspects, a police official said.
A Turkish broadcaster on Friday released what it said was footage of an alleged spy working for a country in the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State helping three British school girls enter Syria via Turkey.
For the first time in years, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas will stage a fund-raising campaign for building needs.
Luxor and Excalibur President Renée West, the first woman ever named president of a Strip resort, will retire in April, MGM Resorts International said Friday.
Francis also said he “did not mind” being pope but would like to be able to go out in Rome unrecognized for a pizza.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. reached into the Bahamas for the person to oversee the company’s Strip resorts.
A world virtually free of tobacco and its devastating health consequences could be a reality within 30 years if governments showed political will and took stronger action against cigarette companies, health experts said on Friday.
Revel’s hard luck continues after a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge on Friday rejected its agreement for a sale to a Florida developer for $82 million, marking the third failed deal for the shuttered hotel in New Jersey’s struggling seaside resort of Atlantic City.