Rising UFC star Yair Rodriguez shines bright in destruction of BJ Penn

Rising featherweight star Yair Rodriguez believes more than 250 people made the nearly 13-hour drive from his hometown of Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico to watch him fight UFC legend BJ Penn on Sunday night. They were rewarded with another outstanding performance.

Sandoval will determine fate of ESAs

Contrary to what you might have heard, Education Savings Accounts are not dead. They’re very much alive. And they’ll be back again this summer — if Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval wants it so.

Outdoor retail expo in Utah puts its best foot forward

Footwear’s position as the second largest segment in lucrative outdoor retail industry is on full display at a trade expo in Salt Lake City with a wide array of colors, prints and designs of sandals, shoes and boots that companies promote as being lighter and more versatile.

LETTERS: Donald Trump getting what he deserves

Our soon-to-be president must remember the old cliches that you reap what you sow and what goes around comes around.

LETTERS: Obamacare repeal must not occur without a GOP alternative

I hope Sen. Dean Heller joins other responsible Republican senators who caution that precipitous repeal of the Affordable Care Act without legislating an immediate replacement will have a devastating impact on our health-care system and thousands of Nevada citizens.

COMMENTARY: White-knuckled fear of sugar isn’t the sweetest solution to our overconsumption

if we’ve learned nothing else from the past hundred or so years of health research, isn’t it that we’d be wise to never pinpoint foods as either saintly silver bullets for optimal health or demons that must be banished lest we die from their mere presence in our supermarkets?

Steelers edge Chiefs, move on to AFC title game

Who needs to reach the end zone when you have Le’Veon Bell chewing up yards and the clock, and Chris Boswell setting an NFL playoff record with six field goals?

Democrats rally nationwide to save, expand Obamacare

Democrats and labor organizers spent Sunday at dozens of rallies across the country, pledging to fight in Congress against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and any attempt to change Medicare or Medicaid.

Rebound of bald eagles comes at a price for some areas in US

The resurgence of the bald eagle is one of America’s greatest conservation success stories. They have come back so strong that in some areas, they are interfering with efforts to preserve more jeopardized species, wildlife biologists say.

Crosby kicks Packers to NFC title game in thriller over Cowboys

Aaron Rodgers threw a 36-yard pass to a toe-dragging Jared Cook on the sideline, and Mason Crosby kicked a 51-yard field goal as time expired, sending the Packers to the NFC championship game with their eighth straight win.

 
Former pro wrestler Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka dies at 73

Former pro wrestler Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka, who earlier this month was found not competent to stand trial in the 1983 death of his girlfriend, has died at his son-in-law’s home in Florida. He was 73.