Romel Beck keeps coming back to Las Vegas, and he keeps doing good things on the basketball court while he’s here.
Brock Lesnar was every bit the company man late Saturday when he arrived at the UFC 100 news conference about an hour after his main-event victory over Frank Mir. … The change in behavior apparently was the result of a lecture delivered by Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White in the bathroom of Lesnar’s locker room.
Omri Casspi recalls watching NBA games on television as a kid. He loved basketball, and he dreamed about one day playing in the NBA.
The 51s gave up a first-inning grand slam to Reno’s Rusty Ryal, then rebounded behind Randy Ruiz to do almost all the rest of the scoring in a 10-5 victory over the host Aces on Sunday in Pacific Coast League action.
The World Series of Poker’s most successful player has been eliminated from the 2009 main event. But defending champion Peter Eastgate and several other notable names were still alive during play Sunday.
Planet Hollywood is the first Las Vegas resort to admit it should have taken responsibility for problems in a nightclub it didn’t own, but leased out. It’s not going to be the last.
Vegas PBS, the Las Vegas-based public television station now in its 40th year, hopes to convert its boxes of historical film and videotape to digital format and make it all available online. The nonprofit organization is seeking a federal grant and hopes to make some money by selling some of its treasure trove of images to private companies.
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RENO — The Nevada attorney general’s office says loan modification scams are topping all cases of housing fraud in Nevada.
Like her father, John McCain, who’s no stranger around Las Vegas craps tables, Meghan McCain has developed a special affinity for Sin City as well.
A developer now has preliminary approval to build a huge video screen and a new casino at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue, a development backers hope will be an eye-catching attraction at the entrance to the city of Las Vegas.
RENO — State education officials expect to see more veterans attend colleges and universities in Nevada in the coming years thanks to the new GI Bill that goes into effect Aug. 1.
Frank Mir says Brock Lesnar embarrassed his sport — and embarrassed Mir’s children — by going on a tirade of spit and trash-talking after beating Mir at Saturday’s UFC 100.
The superintendent of the Esmeralda County School District drives a school bus when necessary.
The Spring Valley Town Advisory Board has changed its 6:30 p.m. Tuesday meeting location to the Clark County Government Center Commission Chambers, 500 Grand Central Parkway.
Sen. John Ensign’s sex scandal has created a potential opportunity for Rep. Shelley Berkley, as Berkley has not been shy about acknowledging.
In a message accompanying his fiscal year 2010 budget, Barack Obama said: “For the better part of three decades, a disproportionate share of the nation’s wealth has been accumulated by the very wealthy. Yet, instead of using the tax code to lessen these increasing wage disparities, changes in the tax code over the past eight years exacerbated them.”
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