Penn State football coach Joe Paterno is in the final years of a great career. It might be his last year. But he’s also overseeing one of his best teams.
PROVO, Utah — Call it revisionist history or simple semantics, but UNLV football coach Mike Sanford seems to have changed his mind about whether his team quit against Brigham Young here two years ago.
The father of kidnapped 6-year-old Cole Puffinburger said the boy’s mother should have known the child could be in danger before he was taken by men with possible drug ties, according to a court motion seeking full custody of Cole.
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is scheduled to campaign at Las Vegas’ Bonanza High School this afternoon.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. tried to soothe the investment community Friday by announcing plans for a capital raising program that could include another cash infusion into the company by chairman and majority stockholder Sheldon Adelson.
The husband of embattled District Judge Elizabeth Halverson Friday pleaded guilty to beating the suspended judge and will likely spend 3 to 10 years in prison.
The barest of sets. A tiny auditorium. Three one-acts by student playwrights. Somehow, these ingredients are transformed by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas into a major (but minimalist) evening of theater.
A hearty “thank you” must go out to the single individual who has done the most to improve the Nevada judiciary: Elizabeth Halverson.
The man who authorities say is a serial killer and rapist was sentenced Friday to spend the rest of his life behind bars without the possibility of parole.
Turnout for the Nov. 4 election continues to be heavy during the early voting period, especially among Democrats, with more than 136,000 votes tallied in Clark County over the first six days.
Four months after becoming the state’s only kidney transplant program, University Medical Center has been stripped of that privilege, leaving in doubt where more than 200 Nevadans awaiting kidney transplants might go for their procedures.
Olive Crest Family Services has organized a workshop for people who have lost or are on the way to losing their homes to foreclosure.
RENO — A jury has recommended the maximum penalty for a man convicted of murdering a university professor after hearing him described as a brilliant, calculating, cold-blooded killer who should spend his life in prison with no chance for parole.
Four of five members of the Mongols outlaw motorcycle club accused of conspiring to sell illegal drugs were released from custody Friday, three days after they were snared in a nationwide sting.
It was a Sarah Palin bizarre-o world Thursday night. Strippers wore hair buns, eyeglasses and not much else to take their shot in a Palin lookalike contest at Club Paradise. Palins to the left. Palins to the right. Here a Palin, there a Palin, everywhere a Palin-Palin.
Seven-year-old Moses Ismerio-Goddard sat on his school bus for four hours Tuesday after his ride home was delayed by a police-ordered lockdown at a school he doesn’t even attend.
Helen Garriott was a world away from her son as he spent the past two weeks on the international space station, but she was with him all the way.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — No further challenge will be made over a contract for widening a 15-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 93 leading to the new bridge spanning the Colorado River at Hoover Dam, providing a new traffic link between Arizona and Nevada.
Aside from cooler weather and early voting, the end of October also was supposed to bring a little relief to northwest valley commuters. It was about two months ago to the day that the Clark County Commission reversed its earlier, inane decision to leave the completed Lake Mead Boulevard interchange at the Las Vegas Beltway closed through 2010. After being called out on a politically expedient promise to a handful of noisy, Sun City Summerlin NIMBYs, the full commission voted in August to open the $12.4 million interchange as soon as possible. Officials thought it would take about two months, tops.
Western Alliance Bancorporation, the $5.2 billion asset Las Vegas-based holding company for Bank of Nevada, reported Friday that it lost $94.7 million in the third quarter because of charge-offs for security investments and goodwill in the acquisition of First Independent Bank.
Trade show and convention contractor GES Exposition Services posted record revenue of $203 million in the third quarter, but company officials warned fourth-quarter earnings are unlikely to meet expectations.
A state task force approved 962 applications for utility rebates on solar, wind and water power projects at residences, businesses, farms, schools and public buildings around the state, NV Energy announced Friday.
A construction-defect lawsuit involving 34,000 Clark County homeowners could be nearing a partial settlement.