MESQUITE — Brad Weiss didn’t see anything too spectacular about his interception return for a touchdown Thursday night.
A slumping economy is not affecting this weekend’s ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
UNLV was in a similar spot in mid-September, a 23-point underdog trying to stand in the way of what then-No. 15 Arizona State considered its game of the year.
The biggest question to come from Breeders’ Cup weekend was did Zenyatta do enough to beat out Curlin as Horse of the Year? The undefeated filly was the shortest-priced winner of a Breeders’ Cup stakes at 1-2 odds in the Ladies Classic.
Following the leadership of junior quarterback Tim Tebow, Florida has been showing opponents no mercy in recent weeks.
With a win and some help on Thursday night, Bonanza had an outside chance to win the Southwest League title.
You missed last night’s Halloween-themed contest, where women at Hawaiian Tropic Zone tried to win a free “Boooob Job.” The winner: whoever collected the most candy from tourists. Sweet.
Criss Angel is holding a rare media event today, hours before the opening night of his magic show collaboration with Cirque du Soleil, and there’s at least one question he doesn’t have to worry about.
Las Vegas police are advising parents to check the Internet for sexual predators in their neighborhoods before children go trick-or-treating.
A telephone conference call Thursday involving parties with a stake in the fate of the state’s only kidney transplant program “went as well as could possibly be expected,” Congresswoman Shelley Berkley said.
Three members of a violent street gang who fought security officers and rival gangsters to defend their drug-dealing turf pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges that include use of firearms and distributing controlled substances.
The director of “Criss Angel Believe” has an honest if unconventional way of talking up a $100 million attraction.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Pardons Board is considering a plan to free up prison space by releasing first-time inmates who have two years or less left on sentences imposed for nonviolent crimes.
Nevada Day and Halloween fall on the same day. Talk about a freaky Friday.
The Tamares Group, which owns three downtown casinos, is in talks with the city of Las Vegas to open a contemporary arts museum in the East Fremont district, Mayor Oscar Goodman said Thursday.
CARSON CITY — Las Vegas attorney Kris Pickering has pulled slightly ahead of her judicial rival in one Supreme Court race, while incumbent Chief Justice Mark Gibbons has opened up a wide lead over his opponent in the other high court contest in the November election, a Review-Journal poll shows.
The mother of a 6-year-old boy who was abducted earlier this month went to police after she got a warning note in July but was told there was no imminent threat and she should buy a shotgun, her lawyer said Thursday.
The death of a 30-year-old Henderson man was the result of a self-inflicted gunshot and not shots fired by police officers during an August domestic disturbance call, a coroner’s inquest jury ruled Thursday.
A headline in Thursday’s Business section was incorrect. MGM Mirage reported a 67 percent drop in profit for the third quarter.
WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy switched operators of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project, awarding a $2.5 billion management contract Thursday to a team headed by a unit of URS Corp., a major construction and engineering design firm.
Today is the last day to cast your vote early, and turnout records have already been shattered as Election Day nears.
On the eve of Election Day, Republican nominee John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, plan to make their final stops of the presidential campaign in Nevada, campaign officials announced Thursday.
A 33-year-old man was charged Thursday in the slaying of a 29-year-old North Las Vegas woman whose body was found in a ravine Sept 6.
CARSON CITY — Voters in Clark and Washoe counties are supporting an advisory question that would raise the room tax to generate money for public education, a Review-Journal poll shows.
The Nevada attorney general’s office will appeal a federal judge’s decision that bars the state from applying a new sex offender law retroactively.
Two political rivals are assaulting each other’s character in a brutal advertising blitz that’s intensifying as their race enters its final stretch.