WASHINGTON — The Ultimate Fighting Championship has come to Washington to engage in the city’s ultimate sport: lobbying.
UNLV men’s basketball assistant coach Lew Hill remained in a local hospital Wednesday and was undergoing tests for an undisclosed health complication.
CLEMSON, S.C. — Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski called a timeout in the final minute, gathered his beaten Blue Devils around him and let them listen as the Littlejohn Coliseum crowd celebrated a Clemson victory like few others.
• LAKE MEAD — Water levels have risen enough that boaters are launching at the Overton boat launch.
Calling it the best of his five UNLV recruiting classes, coach Mike Sanford officially unveiled his 22 newest players Wednesday.
A couple of weeks ago, I was visiting with a friend about tag applications and discussing whether we each would put in for nonresident deer tags in Utah again this year. During our conversation, he told me about a rumor he heard that caught me by surprise on one hand and sounded feasible on the other.
With its athletic guards, led by senior Kylel Coleman, Bishop Gorman was clearly at its best pushing the tempo Wednesday night.
The Flying Tomato is headed to the Big Apple, and New York might never be the same.
About a half hour before he signed his national letter of intent Wednesday morning, Silverado defensive end Keenan Graham was asked by a school receptionist what program he chose.
• ARBOR VIEW — Wrestler Robbie Ireland went 7-0 in league matches and 38-7 for the regular season. Girls soccer player Ashlea Andrade had a total of two goals and two assists in three games.
Derek Eamon rushed for 1,760 yards and 24 touchdowns as a senior, but it was his final six games in particular that brought the Del Sol running back recruiting interest.
Three crosses proposed for a church would’ve stretched heavenward too much for some residents’ liking.
CARSON CITY — Democratic legislative leaders said Wednesday they must spend at least $500 million more on education than Gov. Jim Gibbons proposes in his budget before the state can qualify for federal economic stimulus grants.
RENO — Gov. Jim Gibbons wants a federal judge to strike references to his divorce in a lawsuit filed by a former state worker seeking reinstatement to her job, saying the “scandalous” references are irrelevant and were included solely to harass and embarrass him.
Martha Watson is not a braggart. She certainly has earned bragging rights, but that’s not her style.
At first blush, Eric Washington’s criminal case looks like a run-of-the-mill example of burglary.
LOGANDALE — Ila Winsor remembers 60 years ago when local Latter-day Saints made bricks by hand for the town’s first Mormon chapel. But from her hilltop home on Wednesday, she witnessed a scene she hoped would never happen. The chapel, regarded as the “centerpiece of life” for many of its 1,400 members, was destroyed by an early morning blaze that broke out in a back room and spread to the nearby sanctuary.
Chapel fire video and slide show
Robert Blue’s three children spent most of Wednesday morning in a courthouse conference room, waiting to be called as witnesses in their father’s child abuse case.
Middle and high school students made gains over last year on districtwide math tests, but failure rates still remain high, Clark County School District officials said Wednesday.
School district’s mathematical assessments goals
The problem of “sexting” has exploded in the Clark County School District in the past few years, said Edward Goldman, associate superintendent for educational services.
A significant Las Vegas casino owner is bracing for an explosive story linking him to an out-of-wedlock child.
Former Nevada nuclear agency chief Bob Loux is proposing to settle his case with the State Ethics Commission by admitting he violated Nevada law when he gave himself an unauthorized pay raise last year.
CARSON CITY — A legislative proposal enabling authorities to prosecute people who view child pornography prompted concerns Wednesday that it could be used against people who unintentionally go to an Internet porn page.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety on Wednesday released the names of the seven people who died in Friday’s tour bus crash south of Hoover Dam.
One three-word phrase was conspicuously absent from Wednesday’s discussion of a planned new casino in downtown Las Vegas: “new city hall.”
WASHINGTON — While the recession has dug its claws deep into almost every corner of the nation, the message to the casino industry in the short four-line section of the draft House economic recovery bill seemed clear: No stimulus money for you.
The name of the restaurant featured in the Appetizers column in Wednesday’s Taste section was incorrect. It is Pips Cucina & Wine Bar.