Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy has defeated Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, denying her a fourth term and extending the GOP’s domination of the 2014 midterm elections that put Republicans in charge of Capitol Hill for the final two years of President Barack Obama’s tenure.
Poor shooting again plagued the UNLV women’s basketball team Saturday as Utah dealt the Lady Rebels a 62-49 loss in Salt Lake City.
Tate Martell opened the season splitting time with Bishop Gorman’s second team. He finished the season with an incredible performance in leading the Gaels to their sixth consecutive state football championship before a crowd that included former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali.
The UNLV Athletic Department hopes to make its sports sponsors into sports marketing partners. Corporate sponsors such as Findlay Toyota or Boyd Gaming Corp. might play the roles of marketing partners to help promote the Rebel sports brand and sell tickets.
Mission accomplished! A group of rocket enthusiasts launched a porta-potty into the sky Saturday in southwestern Michigan. It made an arc and almost landed on a spectator’s pickup truck, 2,000 feet away.
A grassroots movement formed by activists around the world to end street harassment planted seeds in Las Vegas on Saturday at The Gay and Lesbian Community Center.
Blake Sims threw a pair of touchdown passes, T.J. Yeldon and Derrick Henry each had a couple of touchdown runs, and top-ranked Alabama pulled away in the fourth quarter to win its 24th Southeastern Conference championship with a 42-13 rout of No. 14 Missouri on Saturday.
If you were a youngster in the 1950s and 1960s, Rancho Circle was viewed as the neighborhood where money grew on trees. The place to go for the best Halloween treats. Now it is in comeback mode with a new generation.
Thousands of Santa Clauses took to the pavement on Saturday morning for the Great Santa Run hosted by Opportunity Village.
The decision of Assembly Republicans to pick a new speaker designate on Tuesday has muted criticism about the caucus leadership, and the focus now is back on policy, from taxes and education funding to economic diversification, an official with the NAACP said Friday.
