The high school football season has followed a frighteningly familiar pattern for Mojave. Just like last season, the Rattlers opened Sunset League play with wins over Pahrump Valley and Sierra Vista before losing to Faith Lutheran.
The man killed by police on Thursday after he fatally shot nine people at a community college in southern Oregon was a nervy 26-year-old who lived close to the campus and described himself as shy, according to neighbors, media and online reports.
The gunman who opened fire at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College singled out Christians, according to the father of a wounded student.
Liberty’s running game was a question mark entering Thursday’s game against Green Valley. It’s not a question anymore.
Moapa Valley senior R.J. Hubert made an oral commitment to Utah on Thursday, Pirates football coach Brent Lewis said.
Rachel Klopfer had 14 kills and 13 digs Thursday as Green Valley’s volleyball team defeated visiting Centennial, 25-22, 27-29, 25-19, 25-16.
Roman Urias-Medina had two goals, and Canyon Springs’ boys soccer team remained unbeaten with a 3-1 victory over visiting Valley on Thursday.
The 2007 New England Patriots are the only NFL team ever to go 16-0 in the regular season. What are the odds that the 2015 Patriots or Green Bay Packers can repeat the feat?
A U.S. military transport plane crashed at an airfield in Afghanistan shortly after midnight on Friday, killing all 11 people on board, the U.S. military said, adding there were no reports of enemy fire at the time.
Being called a nice guy is sometimes a backhanded compliment, and by almost all accounts, Georgia football coach Mark Richt is a nice guy. He’s also cunning enough to survive in a cutthroat business. The problem is, he does not thrive in the biggest games. He wins a lot of games and has a pleasant personality, so he still has a job.
RICHMOND, Va — Virginia on Thursday put to death a convicted serial killer who claimed mental disability in the U.S. state’s first execution in almost three years.
The bid by Las Vegas to join the NHL might have been tripped up Thursday when the chairman of the league’s Board of Governors executive committee said the time might not be right for the 30-team league to expand.
As weekly bettors and watchers of college football, we can plainly see the Southeastern Conference is the best league top to bottom. However, that doesn’t mean we should ignore the Big Ten.
Another wave of Breeders’ Cup prep races will take place this weekend from Belmont Park and Keeneland.
Our handicappers choose their best bets for this weekend’s NFL and college football slate.
Hurricane Joaquin, once forecast to be a major threat to the East Coast, may still cause some havoc on the sports world this weekend.
With the NBA preseason tipping off today, all four North American major pro sports leagues will be in action this weekend. But football is still king, and there will be plenty to feast your eyes upon, with five matchups of top-25 college teams Saturday and an NFL Sunday quadruple-header starting at 6:30 a.m., when the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets square off in London.
The College of Southern Nevada’s culinary program teamed up with local nonprofit Chefs for Kids to deliver freshly cooked, healthy meals to local schoolchildren.
Mariachis, folkloric dancers and an Elvis impersonator kicked off the grand re-opening of Joe Kneip Park in North Las Vegas on Sept. 17.
Justin Tucker’s third field goal of the game, a 52-yarder with 5:08 remaining in overtime, gave the Baltimore Ravens their first win of the season, 23-20 over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday night.
Angelina Iniguez and Kayla Sanguinetti each had a goal and an assist in the second half to help Sierra Vista’s girls soccer team rally for a 2-1 win over host Pahrump Valley on Thursday.
Racquel Holder and Daria Shalina each went 3-0 in singles Thursday as Green Valley’s girls tennis team clinched the Southeast League crown with a 10-8 win over visiting Coronado.
Dozens of families in the St. Sharbel Maronite Catholic Church congregation have been busy in the kitchen cooking traditional Middle Eastern food and desserts in preparation of the church’s eighth annual Lebanese American Festival.
Victoria Estrada shot a 3-over-par 75 at Black Mountain on Thursday as Coronado’s girls golf team won a Southeast League match.
A program for older Las Vegans at Derfelt Senior Center in Lorenzi Park incorporated burlesque into exercise to put some fun back into working out.
The fatal shootings at an Oregon community college on Thursday were the latest of many deadly rampages in the United States. Below are some of the worst shooting incidents in recent years, ranked by the number of dead, including the shooter:
A 98-bed drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility is slated to open on 5.2 acres behind 730 and 750 E. Horizon Drive, raising concerns from some nearby residents and members of the adjacent Highland Hills Baptist Church.
NFL Hall of Famer Warren Sapp pleaded guilty Thursday to domestic violence in connection with a quarrel that began at M Resort.
President Barack Obama on Thursday angrily said America had made a “political choice” to allow mass shootings like the one in Oregon to occur and blasted the National Rifle Association lobby group for blocking reform of U.S. gun laws.
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