Offensive linemen are expected to play with pain, and UNLV junior center Robert Waterman certainly had his share last season.
A few years back, when every shoe company save for Red Wing and Birkenstock was putting on national AAU basketball tournaments in Las Vegas, I wrote about a team from Wahoo, Neb. — which just so happened was one of the “home offices” of the nightly Top 10 list on “Late Show with David Letterman.”
Charles Parnow hit a pair of two-run home runs to carry Petaluma (Calif.) to a 9-0 win over Liberty in the American Legion Western Regional championship game Monday at Surprise, Ariz.
No matter how much Nick Newell accomplishes as a fighter, he knows there always will be doubters.
Tim Hauck was playing in 1997 for the Seattle Seahawks when he was blindsided during a punt return by a Denver Bronco. Shortly into the second half, he asked a fellow safety what had been happening in the game. But even if Hauck’s short-term memory was gone, no way he was going to the bench.
If the recession that supposedly ended four years ago has proved anything, it’s that government still has no shortage of money to waste.
Renewable energy — especially solar and wind power — is still more expensive than its dirtier counterparts, such as coal. Switching to renewable power may be good for the environment and public health, but it’s also more expensive for the people who buy and use electricity.
Abuse, neglect and mistreatment of nursing home residents is widespread in Nevada, according to a report issued by a nursing home resident advocacy group.
An off-duty Las Vegas police detective is on paid administrative leave after he shot a man outside Excalibur hotel-casino on the Strip.
This past weekend, hundreds of women climbed, twirled and danced around two poles during the Pole Sports Organization 2013 US National Pole Championships at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino.
Joingo LLC, a San Jose, Calif.-based technology company with offices in Las Vegas and Incline Village, has developed a mobile application menu allowing casinos to customize smartphone apps, as well as target and interact with loyalty club members.
The Perseid meteor display occurs every August and typically is one of the most dependable displays of “shooting stars” of the year. The annual display, known as the Perseid shower because the meteors appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus in the northeastern sky, is a result of Earth’s orbit passing through debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle.
A new documentary exploring the impact of large-scale renewable energy projects on desert ecosystems and American Indian heritage will make its Nevada debut at the Clark County Library on Flamingo Road at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
According to a well-known blog, All Things D, Apple will hold a special event Sept. 10 to announce the next version of the iPhone and more details about iOS 7, the next version of the iPhone and iPad operating system.
Attorney General Eric Holder announced a major shift Monday in federal sentencing policies, targeting long mandatory terms that he said have flooded the nation’s prisons with low-level drug offenders and diverted crime-fighting dollars that could be far better spent.
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh was the first keynote speaker at SXSW V2V, a first-time South by Southwest conference that connects venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. The conference is being held at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas through Wednesday.
In Las Vegas to promote her new line of supplements, Martha Stewart spoke about health and aging to an audience of about 25 people, including a dean of pharmacy education, pharmacists, press and retail buyers at the Sands Expo on Monday morning.
A federal judge Monday threw out race discrimination claims by a former Savannah restaurant manager whose lawsuit against Paula Deen has already cost the celebrity cook a valuable chunk of her culinary empire.
A Canadian motorcyclist stops what he’s doing to help a woman whose wheelchair is stuck, restoring the Internet’s faith in humanity along the way.
Gov. Brian Sandoval said Monday he wants a study of road-funding options — including the potential of a “vehicle miles traveled” tax — completed in time for a policy debate in the 2015 Legislature.
Tim Haughinberry hopes to use the Gold Mine Tavern to transform the Water Street District into a destination.
“I’ll be the Tony Hsieh of Water Street,” Haughinberry said jokingly, referring to the Zappos CEO who has invested in downtown Las Vegas.
Two women were in critical condition Monday afternoon at University Medical Center after they were hit in a crosswalk by a car at Bonanza Road and Wardelle Street, near Mojave Road.
When Romotive moved from Las Vegas to San Francisco in March of this year, the company said it needed to be near strategic partners and top senior talent.
In efforts to begin drafting a plan that it hopes will transform the region, Southern Nevada Strong recently began discussing the role of education in community development.
Your grades were an embarrassment last year.
CARSON CITY — If Nevada’s 150th anniversary license plate isn’t on your must-have list, Department of Motor Vehicles officials hope two other new license plates might pique your interest.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas adjunct professor William Donati’s books have focused on controversies. His career was launched when he researched a theory that Errol Flynn was a Nazi spy while co-writing “My Days with Errol Flynn: The Autobiography of Stuntman Buster Wiles.” Donati concluded that Flynn was not a spy and that a prominent biographer had doctored documents to support the claim.
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