In the Green Valley High School performance of the musical “Rent,” the exotic dancer Mimi flirts with a rock guitarist by asking him if she has the best ass “below 14th Street,” referring to the gritty neighborhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. … This was the PG-13 version of the Broadway hit. Judging by the hoots and hollers from the audience Friday night, “Rent” was plenty edgy.
Kentrell Washington is far from being the most experienced player on Western’s boys basketball roster.
The UNLV women’s basketball team surrendered most of a 21-point second-half lead before holding on for a 60-58 victory over Northern Arizona on Tuesday night at Cox Pavilion.
MARLBORO, N.J. — Tammy and Ted Plevretes don’t need more research to link football concussions to devastating brain damage.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Darington Hobson had 23 points and 12 rebounds, helping No. 19 New Mexico to a 90-75 victory over No. 20 Texas Tech on Tuesday night.
LUBBOCK, Texas — The lawyer for Mike Leach said the suspended Texas Tech football coach did nothing wrong in how he treated a player with a “mild” concussion, and Leach wants a court’s help to allow him to coach in the Alamo Bowl on Jan. 2.
Clark County’s chief building official wants all companies that inspect construction work to be accredited through a national group, a move that one consultant says would be costly and pointless.
With Tiger Woods rumored to be in an Arizona rehabilitation center, reportedly for a sex addiction, we went back through the Vegas Confidential archives.
As we mentioned before, it’s been a bit of a struggle to get some road construction-related answers from our friends at Clark County. A boatload of questions was shipped over to our Clark County types and, looky here, we got a boatload of answers in return.
RENO — State transportation officials say inspections are continuing but they don’t believe there’s anything to a former construction worker’s claims that substandard concrete was used in the construction of a new highway bridge south of Reno.
Come on, people! Let’s get debaucherous. Shed the ennui that’s been causing that slight slump in your shoulders ever since the economy crashed in your favorite Sin City lo so many months ago.
For more than a decade, Designated Drivers Inc. has provided free rides to those too inebriated to drive.
CARSON CITY — When it comes to the U.S. census, every person counts, even illegal residents. In fact, each of them is worth $917 a year to Nevada in additional federal funds.
The city of Las Vegas is asking for wage cuts to meet a projected budget deficit, but the city’s largest employee union doesn’t plan to make it easy.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had announced his sympathy for jihadi terrorism. Yet so crippled by political correctness is today’s America that no one blew the whistle. Instead, he was sent to Fort Hood, where he opened fire on Nov. 5, killing 13 and wounding 31.