Patrick McCaw scored 20 points, Ike Nwamu and Ben Carter finished with 16 apiece and UNLV upset No. 13 Indiana 72-69 in the Maui Invitational fifth-place game Wednesday.
On Tuesday, when police announced the arrest of a substitute school bus driver on charges of sexually assaulting a student, he was already out of custody.
So, what do you get the man who has everything for his birthday? How about a nice belt? But not just any belt. We’re talking a championship belt, like the ones Floyd Mayweather Jr. used to collect.
Ann McGee, the founder of Miracle Flights for Kids in 1985, has departed with an annual retirement of $344,000, or 75 percent of her most recent salary of $430,000.
At the intersection of the energy industry and environmentalism, of ranching and recreation, of economic development and preservation, is U.S. public land policy. No wonder the issue creates such sharp partisan divisions.
After reading yet another of the Review-Journal’s interminable editorials opposing Obamacare, I was confused about the logic that was expressed in the latest diatribe (“Unaffordable care,” Monday Review-Journal).
This Thanksgiving, too many people are eager to talk up America’s shortcomings, real or perceived. In many instances, “perceived” is winning the day.
Those who’ve never wowed their loved ones with tales of turkey physical therapy at Thanksgiving, take a page from 17-year-old Rhys Bertschy.
The holiday shopping season is in full swing. As you’re buying holiday gifts and checking off your shopping list, you should also keep in mind retailers’ return policies. There’s a good chance that something from your holiday shopping trips will get returned, since two-thirds (68.6 percent) of consumers indicated last year that they returned gifts most or some of the time
As a second-grader, Bobbie Grayson battled and beat leukemia. This week, the 16-year-old high school junior was struck by a drunk driver and killed while she walked in North Las Vegas, police said.
As tensions around the world mount, the prospect for keeping it safe from nuclear warfare means making sure no more nuclear bombs will ever be tested.
UNLV forward Ben Carter is the lunch pail and hard hat kid. He’s that guy. He’s the one who doesn’t question orders, a coach’s son who not only can play, but more importantly, knows how to play. There is a big difference.
Striper action remains good. Live shad has been the best bait in deep waters. Now that the water is cooling, especially this weekend, artificial bait is less effective.
When San Diego State won the recruiting battle for Winston Shepard in 2012, it was thought to be a short-term prize.
Spend most of the year driving the usually ice-free, almost always snow-free roads of Southern Nevada and being forced to drive on snow- and ice-covered roads outside of town can be scarier than participating in a bumper car free-for-all at the carnival.
In the three NFL games on Thanksgiving Day, the Philadelphia Eagles are the most popular choice among contestants in the Review-Journal NFL Challenge, which is published Sundays.
On Thanksgiving, it’s fitting that NFL Most Valuable Player candidate Cam Newton and the unbeaten Carolina Panthers (10-0) will treat their backers to another ride on the gravy train.
Nevada’s attorney general said he plans to sign a letter supporting a bill backed by billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson that would ban Internet gaming nationwide and end the state’s online poker business.
UNLV, who had led by as many as 15 points in the first half, found itself struggling for offense in the second half of Wednesday’s Maui Invitational matchup against 13th-ranked Indiana.
Ever since he was a kid growing up in Las Vegas, Travis Puccio has had a passion to serve in the Army.
An 18-year-old man who was hospitalized Saturday after a crash involving a tractor-trailer has died, according to Henderson police.
UNLV’s upset of 13th-ranked Indiana in the Maui Invitational’s loser’s bracket was as much a mistake-filled near-meltdown as it was an impressive victory.
A Las Vegas man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of threatening President Barack Obama and other government officials.
There were times two seasons ago when Spring Valley girls basketball coach Billy Hemberger wondered if all the work he was putting in was worth it.
Greg Floyd, who sat out last season after transferring from Clark, is a big reason the Jaguars are shaping up to be the team to beat in Division I-A this year.
The winds that rattled the Las Vegas Valley early this week moved out Wednesday, and a freeze warning for parts of the valley is in place for Thanksgiving night.
Tony Sanchez, the former Bishop Gorman and current UNLV football coach, has it right. Nothing says America more than football on Thanksgiving.
The managing general partner of a Summerlin shopping center objected to Smart & Final taking over a lease to replace Haggen, according to bankruptcy court documents.
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