While putting together his personal highlight reel Sunday night, Kobe Bryant created his usual array of incredible plays en route to scoring 38 points for the Los Angeles Lakers.
RENO — Reno officials say fencing from a delayed remodeling project at Virginia Lake is expected to come down in the next few days.
ELKO — The U.S. Forest Service has extended the public comment period for a study on a management plan for national forest roads in northeastern Nevada.
SAN FRANCISCO — During the week, Roberto Heckscher was a socially awkward accountant who drove a Saturn and kept an office above a flower shop in a quiet neighborhood. On the weekends, he transformed into a high-rolling casino “whale” in Las Vegas who enjoyed VIP treatment worthy of a sheik.
WASHINGTON — A team of U.S. geologists and Pentagon officials has discovered vast mineral wealth in Afghanistan, conceivably enough to turn the scarred and impoverished country into one of the world’s most lucrative mining centers, The New York Times reports.
RICHMOND, Va. — Jimmy Dean, a country music legend for his smash hit about a workingman hero, “Big Bad John,” and an entrepreneur known for his sausage brand, died on Sunday. He was 81.
With the NBA’s annual owners’ meeting here in four weeks, representatives of the proposed Silver State Arena are moving with urgency on several fronts.
JOHANNESBURG — The constant drone of cheap and tuneless plastic horns is killing the atmosphere at the World Cup.
BROOKLYN, Mich. — Denny Hamlin, his No. 11 Toyota becoming a distant spec on the horizon to the rest of the field Sunday, heard the caution call come over the radio and tried not to roll his eyes.
CURTIS TERRY, Years: 2004 to 2008, Career highlights: 6-foot-5-inch point guard played 133 games (60 starts) and scored 893 points for a 6.7 average.
You have to wake up pretty early in the morning to be on the campaign trail before Rory Reid, the Democratic nominee for governor of Nevada.
The historic Caughlin Ranch House in Reno, where Brian Sandoval celebrated his win over Gov. Jim Gibbons in the Republican gubernatorial primary, was a far cry from the hard, dusty patch of land in Searchlight where two months ago both candidates sought votes among hard-line Tea Party conservatives.
When political bigwigs come to Las Vegas, photographers are treated like kings because it’s all about the pictures. Reporters and columnists are serfs and lackeys, seldom given the chance to ask questions but permitted to listen to the speech … from the back.
Sarah Palin just helped an HIV charity raise about $175,000. To be precise, at Sunday’s successful Ribbon of Life fundraising show, a prominent sketch portrayed Palin as a stupid tool.
NEW YORK — “Red,” the anguished two-man drama about painter Mark Rothko and the timeless tug of war between art and commerce, was a big winner Sunday at the 2010 Tony Awards, receiving the best play prize and five other honors.
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