Clark High School small forward Diontae Jones made an oral commitment Thursday to play at Wyoming.
WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Jacob deGrom (4-2); RedHawks, Asher Wojciechowski (7-5)
Men’s golfer Kevin Penner and women’s tennis player Aleksandra Josifoska have been named UNLV’s Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year, the school announced Thursday.
Kevin Brockley, a Saratoga Race Course patron, won a contest at the New York track for a free $15,000 win bet in Saturday’s Whitney Handicap. He placed the wager on race favorite Fort Larned.
Dan Skelly pitched eight innings and drove in the go-ahead run with a bases-loaded walk in the fourth inning Thursday to help Liberty to an 11-5 win over Albuquerque (N.M.) in the first round of the American Legion Western Regional in Surprise, Ariz.
In 1979, The Who released its rockumentary film, “The Kids are Alright.” At the time, the United States was mired in a lousy economy, so perhaps the kids — and the adults, for that matter — weren’t really alright.
UNLV might be better for it this season, but at the time, offensive left tackle Brett Boyko’s knee injury was a painful experience in nearly every way for the Rebels.
All 10,000 bus drivers, janitors, cooks and other Clark County School District support staff will receive a
2 percent cost of living raise this school year, according to the 2013-15 contract negotiated by district officials and the Education Support Employees Association, which represents the workers.
The United States has been “going green” for years now, and Clean Energy Summit 6.0’s message is this: Keep going.
Nevada’s chief justice ordered a statewide review to determine whether courts are reporting names of mentally ill people to a gun ownership blacklist, and the state attorney general said Thursday her office will reach out to courts to ensure compliance with the reporting laws as a matter of public safety.
About 200 district schools are fully staffed and 100 others have just one or two openings as the start of the school year approaches.
A second suspect has been arrested in the Jan. 26 parking lot shooting that injured one man in Henderson.
Troy Walker was literally a second off of bowling a perfect 300, if it weren’t for a pesky technical error.
A search for a man suspected of abducting a 16-year-old girl after abandoning her mother and possibly her younger brother in his burning house expanded on Thursday to four western states, Mexico and Canada, with dozens of tips pouring in from Oregon and Washington.
Brigham Young University football coach Bronco Mendenhall announced Thursday that BYU football jerseys would feature either “Tradition,” “Spirit” or “Honor” in the place of the players’ names.
The joke is on anyone who thinks The Monkees don’t have staying power, 47 years after a TV show created them in 1966.
The FBI said Wednesday it is reopening its investigation into the 1964 kidnapping of a newborn boy from a Chicago hospital, after recent DNA testing revealed that a boy found in New Jersey more than a year later and returned to the elated parents wasn’t actually their son.
Tribal members and environmentalists filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to force NV Energy to clean up the site of a coal-fired power plant the utility plans to shut down by 2017.
Adam Scott, a former UNLV standout, ran off five straight birdies early in his round at soft and vulnerable Oak Hill, and finished with a 15-foot par for a 5-under-par 65 that gave him a share of the lead Thursday with Jim Furyk in the PGA Championship.
Las Vegas police are looking for victims of a man facing charges of sexual assault while pretending to be a undercover officer.
Crews still battling the Carpenter 1 Fire extinguished two new columns inside the burn area Thursday.
Suspended Las Vegas police officer Solomon Coleman has 24 hours to turn himself in to jail for booking, a judge ordered Thursday.
A South Florida man who authorities say fatally shot his wife — and apparently then posted a photo of her body on Facebook — turned himself into police Thursday.
Clark County firefighters are battling a house fire near Blue Diamond Road and Buffalo Drive Thursday afternoon.
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller wants Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz to clear up discrepancies in his Senate hearing testimony when the energy chief said he thought he had a deal with Nevada to allow shipments of highly radioactive uranium waste from Tennessee to the Nevada National Security Site.
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