Steven Jackson hadn’t played football for a full year and was essentially retired from the NFL when the running back received what he called an early Christmas gift. It was a December phone call from Patriots coach Bill Belichick, who asked the Las Vegas native if he was ready to return to action for New England.
The second half at Utah State on Tuesday was about to begin when UNLV associate head coach Stacey Augmon gave Stephen Zimmerman Jr. a pep talk.
Part of the Strip was closed Friday night as police investigated an officer-involved shooting that occurred on the sidewalk in front of the Bellagio fountains after a man was reportedly waving a gun and pointing it at people.
There are charts and graphs and even a horizontal axis for those math wizards in the group to check. Lots and lots of data. Lots and lots of information. Lots and lots of statistical overload.
Up to 85 million people are in the path of a storm that’s expected to rock much of the East Coast of the United States.
Shane Barnes had 15 points Friday night to lead Eldorado’s boys basketball team to a 55-51 home win over Rancho.
Haley Tyrell had 14 points, six assists, four rebounds and three steals Friday to help Coronado’s girls basketball team to a 52-44 win over visiting Foothill.
Alyssa Scott had 22 points in her second game after becoming eligible this week, and Spring Valley rolled to a 70-45 victory over host Faith Lutheran in a rematch of last season’s Division I-A state final.
Brandee Ford caught a 14-yard touchdown pass from Kalei Watkins in the final minute Friday to lift Sierra Vista’s flag football team to a 37-33 road win over Spring Valley in a Division I-A Sunset League game.
Former Sands China executive Steven Jacobs claims Las Vegas Sands Corp. is trying to “derail” his rights “through improper and unlawful maneuvering,” which includes the company’s most recent attempt to remove the judge assigned to his wrongful termination case.
A Las Vegas area man charged in major telemarketing and tax fraud schemes was indicted again this week in an alleged scam involving timeshare properties and at least 15 victims, according to the Nevada attorney general’s office.
Winter storm Jonas, wreaking havoc on the East Coast, has led to airline flight cancellations around the nation, including McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.
The state’s higher education board on Friday pushed a series of proposals to merge services at Nevada’s colleges and universities, putting the agency at odds with lawmakers who want to split the system instead.
A man was hospitalized in critical condition Friday evening after his car crashed into another on the southbound off-ramp of U.S. Highway 95 to Jones Boulevard.
Nevada — despite earning national attention for a dizzying list of education reforms that Gov. Brian Sandoval enacted last year— attracted only three candidates to fill a job that oversees public schools across the Silver State.
You’ve agreed to host a party and have had a good time, but now the hour is getting late. The house has gone from a crowded cacophony of conversation and music to a roomful of stragglers whispering in hushed tones.
After a man was gunned down in a northeast valley apartment complex Thursday night, his 7-year-old daughter walked out of her mother’s apartment, saw his bloody body and called for help, a neighbor said Friday.
Arizona associate head coach Joe Pasternack has emerged as a significant candidate for the UNLV basketball job, a source said Friday.
Ronda Rousey, the former Ultimate Fighting Championship women’s bantamweight champion, is hosting “Saturday Night Live” on Saturday in New York.
Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske can’t wait to get an up-close look at the place where Southern Nevada’s economic diversification efforts will kick into high gear.
The U.S. economy experienced a landmark moment this month when the nation began exporting crude oil for the first time in four decades.
A local company has partnered with a national developer to build a big, speculative industrial project in southwest Las Vegas.
Wynn Resorts Chairman Steve Wynn spent more than $31.8 million this week to acquire additional shares of his casino company’s stock, according to a securities filing Friday.
The words once uttered by Stevie Ray Vaughn written above the entrance of the Hard Rock Cafe had little to do with rock ‘n’ roll and a lot to do with sex on Friday when day three of the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo took over the Strip hotel-casino.
The always-popular Alfa Romeo is red-hot in popularity at Findlay Fiat Alfa Romeo in the Valley Automall in both 2015 and 2016 models.
Nissan turned a lot of heads at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit when it introduced the Titan Warrior Concept.
The 2016 Ford Transit is undoubtedly one of Ford’s most multifaceted vehicles now available at Friendly Ford at 660 N. Decatur Blvd.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has developed a two-pronged approach that has the 500X and the Jeep division’s recently released 2015 Renegade sharing platforms and drivetrains.
The plight of the liberal arts major is one the recessionary years highlighted well. But Leslie Rankin has known about it for nearly three decades. When she graduated from college in the early ’80s with a fine arts degree, she was eager to find a career that actually used her artistic skills.
Somewhere between where the hardwood ends and the cement edging begins lies the transterior.
