It took the very best Jimmer Fredette and Jackson Emery had to offer for Brigham Young to make it to today’s finals of the Las Vegas Classic.
They made a movie about wind in the early 1990s, about a couple of experienced sailors determined to win the America’s Cup yacht race.
Holding an opposing basketball player to 29 points in a game might not seem a great accomplishment.
The megafight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao could be in jeopardy after Pacquiao reportedly refused to have his blood drawn 30 days before their proposed March 13 welterweight title bout.
Three years makes perfect sense. It shouldn’t be any longer to start. Not in this economic climate. Not when your athletic department was just burned by a football coach who won 16 games over five seasons and is paying him $254,000 to coach a sixth year for a different program.
If a year ago, Brigham Young’s football team showed up disinterested, on Tuesday night, the Cougars were more than ready to play.
Everybody’s favorite celebrity-atheist-libertarian-ponytailed-rich guy is ready. He’s miked up. He’s facing the TV camera.
A Las Vegas teenager accused of shooting and killing his mother told police her death was an accident, an arrest report revealed Tuesday.
A pending labor peace ordinance for downtown Las Vegas probably won’t impede development, experts said.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — A distraught resident of the northwest Arizona community of Beaver Dam stabbed himself to death Monday in front of deputies who tried to help him, according to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office.
Las Vegas police on Tuesday arrested a 50-year-old man in connection with the discovery of a woman found dead in her apartment on Dec. 15.
A 69-year-old Las Vegas man is apologizing for defacing the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign, weeks before he faces a judge on a misdemeanor property damage charge.
When Raymonde Fiol was 6 years old, she was smuggled out of a Nazi internment camp “under the noses of the Germans.”
With all the cones and road work signs throughout the valley, it’s tough to believe there are still streets out there that are in awful shape. This week, quite a few residents share concerns about those roads and ask why they aren’t being repaired. Apparently, stimulus funds will save the day.
Bobby Hauck, who went a remarkable 80-17 in seven seasons at Montana and led the Grizzles to three Football Championship Subdivision national title appearances, was hired Tuesday to be UNLV’s next coach.
An elderly man died in an early morning apartment fire Tuesday, Clark County Fire Department officials said.
If it could be proved that the chief executive officer of a major American corporation — a pharmaceutical firm, say, or an insurance outfit — had delivered hundreds of millions of dollars to the governors of two of the 50 states in exchange for two U.S. senators from those states changing their votes and defeating the proposed federal takeover of America’s medical industry, it’s not too hard to imagine the results: the perpetrator led out of his office in handcuffs by the FBI, front-page indictments and trials, commentators reviling the worst case of public corruption to be seen at such a high level in generations.
Wine: Champagne Heidsieck & Co. Monopole Blue Top Brut
Joan Adams is looking for large and small — but not Minute — tapioca, and readers have several recommendations.
We think it’s safe to say that everyone on your Christmas list has enough gimcracks and geegaws. What they probably long for is a truly usable gift — one they won’t have to dust, but whose taste will linger as a reminder of your good taste (and theirs).
When hotelier Phil Ruffin bought Treasure Island in March, he was impressed enough with Social House to take over the reins from Pure Management Group, opening his own Pan-Asian restaurant in the same space. (Social House plans to reopen at Crystals at CityCenter.)
Abyssinia Restaurant and Market, restaurant, 4780 W. Tropicana Ave., received 28 demerits Dec. 9. Violations included food not cooled by approved methods. GRADE: C
Spurred by low prices and extension of the federal tax credit, existing-home sales in Las Vegas increased 50.8 percent to 3,952 in November, Las Vegas-based Sales- Traq reported Tuesday.
Substandard construction inside Harrah’s Las Vegas, including areas frequented by guests, has been repaired at several sites but still awaits the final inspection that will close the saga of covert remodeling by Harrah’s Entertainment, uncovered two years ago when a terminated hotel electrician took his suspicions to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gary Loveman wants to bring the Caesars Palace brand to Macau as the world’s biggest casino company seeks new markets for growth.