On the first day of the Sunrise Region wrestling tournament Friday at Las Vegas High, the host Wildcats put 11 wrestlers into the semifinal round.
The pairings and even the dates and times of the Sunset Region boys basketball playoffs might be determined in court instead of on one.
Strange things seem to be happening to Nonito Donaire, through no fault of his own.
The Penn State football program is nearly as well known for Joe Paterno‘s trademark glasses as it is for producing quality linebackers.
In a Sunset Region that Spring Valley, Shadow Ridge and Bishop Gorman have often dominated, there hasn’t been much room for wrestling teams such as Arbor View’s.
Because rugby players don’t wear pads, there’s a perception they’re tougher than their American football counterparts. But U.S. Sevens rugby player Leonard Peters begs to differ, and he should know: He played college football for Hawaii and in the NFL for the New York Jets and Chicago Bears.
• A headline in Friday’s Review-Journal misidentified state Sen. Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas. Horsford serves as Senate majority leader.
A second man has been arrested in the slaying of a man and the attempted slaying of his wife last month, police said Friday.
OK, who’s the “skunk” who ruined Lola Pokomy‘s long-awaited Super Bowl celebration?
North Las Vegas City Councilman William Robinson called out the city’s labor unions Thursday night, saying they must agree to cost-saving concessions to decrease the number of impending layoffs.
George Ralphs isn’t thrilled about the prospect of paying to jog in Red Rock Canyon. Three times a week for 20 years he and a couple of buddies have run free of charge on trails that wind through the canyon’s sandstone cliffs, even when motorists had to pay $5 a carload to drive the 13-mile scenic loop.
An 18-year-old has been indicted on one count of driving under the influence causing death.
A nurse with the guts to blow the whistle on a well-connected doctor was acquitted Thursday on an absurd charge that never should have been filed. Jurors took about an hour to toss this silly case.
The yellow school bus is going green. On Tuesday after the Presidents Day holiday, a hybrid bus will begin transporting some students in the Clark County School District.
It’s one of the clearest proposals yet to raise money for Nevada’s dirt-poor state government, but so far the initiative to raise taxes on the booming mining industry isn’t getting much traction with the state’s political establishment.
A woman who died earlier this week in a two-vehicle collision in the south valley was identified Friday by the Clark County coroner’s office as Hollice Hoffman, 56, of Rawlins, Wyo.
About 400 to 500 students walked out of Desert Oasis High School from 8:05 to 8:35 a.m. Thursday to protest possible state budget cuts.
The young woman pushed the baby stroller down San Pedro Avenue every day, Teresa Garner remembers. Garner never knew her neighbor’s name, and never had any contact with her aside from a wave or a nod, she said, but always recognized the stroller as it leisurely passed her home.
At Bellagio and other Strip resorts, preparation for the potentially lucrative two-week Chinese New Year celebration is a yearlong event.
TRENTON, N.J. — People in at least three states who buy their own health insurance are getting hit with premium increases of 15 percent or more — and people in other states could see the same thing.
CARSON CITY — State government caught a budget break Friday when it was disclosed that the budget shortfall will be $10 million less than earlier estimates.
With an audience of businesspeople in front of him at Thursday night’s Nevada Business Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Paul Jarley made the case for his own brand of higher-education entrepreneurship.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will visit recession-damaged Las Vegas next week, a little over two weeks after his awkward remark about the city fired up the mayor and even his Nevada allies in Congress. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president will arrive in Southern Nevada on Thursday night after a stop in Denver, and will hold several events on Friday alongside Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.
For months, Nevada politicians have said “everything is on the table” when it comes to solving the state’s budget crisis. Today, it was obvious Nevada citizens took the politicians at their word. … More than 600 residents crammed the Sawyer Building near downtown Las Vegas to make demands or suggestions and to plead their case to nearly two dozen legislators seeking input on how to close a budget shortfall estimated at $871 million.
