SOCCER: Reyes leads Clark girls by Desert Shields

Ariana Reyes scored three goals, including the game-winner with five minutes remaining, to help Clark’s girls soccer team rally for a 4-3 win over host Cheyenne on Friday.

VOLLEYBALL: Falcons sweep Rancho

Kiley McCall had 24 assists and three aces, and Alyssa McCoy added 11 kills and three blocks on Friday to help Foothill’s girls volleyball team to a 25-15, 25-9, 28-26 sweep of visiting Rancho.

Things going to get worse for Texas against Oklahoma

Lopsided losses to quality opposition are becoming the norm rather than the exception for the Texas football program, and the heat is on coach Charlie Strong.

UNLV’s Rice shores up another strong recruiting class

Dave Rice has been talking about a faster-paced style of play, and in the meantime, the UNLV basketball coach is not slowing down on the recruiting trail.

Depleted Cowboys can still cover against Patriots

It had the potential to be one of the great games of the NFL season. Tom Brady and the undefeated New England Patriots, renegades on a mission, riding into Dallas to trade shots with Tony Romo.

EDITORIAL: Keep agendas out of food pyramid

Every five years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services update the nation’s dietary recommendations. They work together to create school and military menus, as well as tweak the widely used “food pyramid.”

Mets, Cardinals win openers; Rangers, Royals also victorious

LOS ANGELES — Daniel Murphy homered and Jacob deGrom struck out a career-high 13, sparking the New York Mets to a 3-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game One of their National League Division Series on Friday.

Weekend weather in Las Vegas to stay warm

If you enjoyed Friday’s weather in the Las Vegas Valley, you’re in luck, because things are not supposed to change much the rest of the weekend.

 
Rubio supports storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday that Yucca Mountain should be the place to store the nation’s high-level nuclear waste in the absence of a better alternative.

Woman accused in DUI death was released by police after earlier crash

A Las Vegas woman accused of driving while intoxicated in a fatal crash Wednesday was behind the wheel in another collision two days before, a mile up Maryland Parkway from where 78-year-old Richard Glen Bryan was run down and dragged to his death.

Despite gaffe, Mickelson talks smack after President’s Cup match

Phil Mickelson committed a rules violation at the President’s Cup — where he used two different brands of golf balls in Friday’s round — that cost his team two holes in a match it halved with Jason Day and Adam Scott. But the gaffe didn’t stop Mickelson from talking smack in his postmatch news conference.

For poet, Great Basin an acquired taste

The Great Basin was an acquired taste for Gary Snyder. Raised on a family dairy farm in the lush Pacific Northwest, Snyder’s early sensibility was informed by spruce forests and wilderness and the snow-capped majesty of the great Cascades.

Grand jury indicts teen in police shooting

A 17-year-old accused of shooting at two Las Vegas police officers last month has been indicted on attempted murder charges, prosecutors said Friday.

‘Vegas! The Show’ delivers Vegas nostalgia without the bad times — PHOTOS

“Vegas! The Show” reminds us of a place that used to be about big names, with larger-than-life personalities. But it leaves out the part about the big names wanting too much money, or trying to hang on too long as times changed and their stars faded.

7 places in Nevada that ended up with weird names

This week an almost morbid Instagram account made the rounds highlighting, well, as the name says, sad topographies. Las Vegas has a few of its own oddly named spots.

Snyder pitching UNLV stadium as part of tourism package

UNLV stadium pointman Don Snyder says he’s hitching his stadium aspirations to a new gubernatorial tourism infrastructure committee, which he hopes can suggest packaging the stadium, the LVCVA’s convention center improvements and Southern Nevada transportation updates under a single funding umbrella.

 
Hawks player found not guilty of resisting arrest in NYC case

Atlanta Hawks player Thabo Sefolosha was acquitted by a jury on Friday of all charges related to an April confrontation with New York City police outside a nightclub that left him with a broken leg.

 
Baylor University rescinds honorary degree awarded to Cosby

AUSTIN, Texas — Baylor University, the world’s largest Baptist university, has decided to rescind the honorary degree it awarded to comedian Bill Cosby in 2003, saying on Friday “acts of interpersonal and sexual violence” run counter to the school’s values.

 
Two missing boys found safe in Kentucky gorge

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Two young cousins who went missing during a family camping trip in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky were found hungry but unharmed on Friday afternoon after about 20 hours, authorities said.

Zedd plays not-so-secret Las Vegas show for re:Invent conference

Amazon Web Services kicked off its annual re:Invent conference earlier this week here in Las Vegas, and last night, organizers threw a huge party for attendees in the shadow of the High Roller.

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