The NCAA Tournament was reduced to 64 teams after two play-in games Tuesday and two Wednesday. The second round begins Thursday and continues Friday. Las Vegas sports books have posted prop bets for the tournament. Here’s a sampling from Westgate Las Vegas.
The Review-Journal’s Adam Hill, Kelly Stewart and Matt Youmans compete with handicappers Bruce Marshall and Ken Thomson in a contest covering NCAA Tournament games today and Friday.
The owner of an illegal marijuana dispensary was arrested Wednesday following a months-long investigation, Las Vegas police said.
Maya Cortes, a 4-year-old kidney cancer patient, learned she and her family are headed to Walt Disney World courtesy of Make-A-Wish of Southern Nevada at Maya’s very own “Cinderella” ball Wednesday at Aria on the Strip.
The longtime union representing more than 11,000 Clark County School District bus drivers, janitors, cooks and other support staff is in disarray after being challenged by another union, sources familiar with the situation told the Review-Journal.
Nevada officials on late Wednesday said they are considering reopening the juvenile correctional facility in Clark County that was closed by the state last week.
Jack Trent carded a 5-under-par 31 at TPC Las Vegas on Wednesday to lead Palo Verde’s boys golf team to a 186-211 win over Arbor View.
Jordan Sibert overcame early foul trouble to score 13 points – including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 34 seconds remaining – as the host Flyers downed the Broncos in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
The regular-season games have wrapped up, Selection Sunday is history and March Madness action begins with the First Four games tipping off Tuesday. Here’s how you can catch all the action.
Many of the treasures offered by the 1.6 million-acre Mojave National Preserve can be found only by traveling on remote gravel roads. One such destination is Fort Piute in the extreme eastern region of the park.
The Boston Marathon bombing trial jury on Wednesday saw two sides of defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, in pipe bombs he is charged with hurling at police four days after the attack and the sweatshirt stained with his own blood he was arrested in.
You can be anyone, anywhere — all you have to do is think it. And in the new book “The Imaginary” by A.F. Harrold, illustrated by Emily Gravett, even adults pretend, although that’s not always good.
Bishop Gorman”s big men Chase Jeter and Stephen Zimmerman were named co-players of the year to lead the Review-Journal”s all-state boys basketball team. Jeter averaged 16.8 points per game and 10.8 rebounds, and Zimmerman averaged 14.4 points and 10.1 rebounds.
Vince Neil, lead singer of the rock band Mötley Crüe, has gone to court to force an Oregon woman to relinquish control of his social media accounts.
Reno”s Mallory McGwire averaged 21.8 points, 14.3 rebounds and 6.9 blocked shots per game, and collected her second straight Review-Journal state player of the year award.
Follow the link for the 2015 Review-Journal all-state boys basketball team.
Follow the link for the 2015 Review-Journal all-state girls basketball team.
Lucky Jones tallied 21 points, seven rebounds and a career-high tying five steals as the Colonials overcame a double-digit, second-half deficit to defeat the Ospreys in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Dayton, Ohio.
March Madness gripped the White House and lots of other workplaces on Wednesday as President Barack Obama joined an estimated 60 million Americans scrambling to make their predictions for the annual tournament to crown a collegiate basketball champion.
A 2024 Olympic Games in Boston could be an economic boost for the city and eastern Massachusetts, bringing $5 billion in new spending to the region over about seven years, a University of Massachusetts analysis of the bid revealed on Wednesday.
Game experts and numerologists agree the way to win your office bracket pool is to pick … against Kentucky?
U.S. Senator Rand Paul will declare his candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination on April 7, MSNBC reported, citing multiple sources inside the Kentucky lawmaker’s camp.
About 120 veterans attended Wednesday’s town hall discussion at the North Las Vegas VA Medical Center with local VA officials. Their concerns, much like those raised in previous town halls, focused on delays in accessing health care services and in resolving disability claims.
Rob Brydon, Alexandra Roach and Sheridan Smith will join Nick Frost as some of the dwarfs in Universal’s “The Huntsman,” starring Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron.
Follow the link for the baseball coaches poll.
Clark County Commissioners have given their blessing to plans for the valley’s first Islamic cemetery, but many neighbors have yet to make their peace with the project.
