ARBOR VIEW — Girls basketball player Jena Valenzuela had 13 points and 10 rebounds against Liberty, then had 15 points in Arbor View’s first on-court varsity win over Clark. Valenzuela had 13 rebounds against Bonanza. Boys basketball player Maiscei Grier totaled 47 points in wins over Clark and Bonanza.
* LAKE MEAD — Striped bass are hitting live shad and rainbow trout imitations throughout the area stretching from Hemenway to Boulder Harbor. Anglers still are catching small stripers in the Vegas Bay area, though the action has tapered off. Fishing activity has picked up in the Overton arm, with striped bass taking bait. The Nevada Department of Wildlife is planting trout each Friday at Hemenway, Boulder Harbor and Crawdad Cove.
Jake Barnes left the starting box a hair too quickly Wednesday night, and it cost him and roping partner Clay O’Brien Cooper a five-second penalty.
Many girls soccer players aspire to make the varsity squad as a freshman. Not Erica Peeples.
Former UNLV basketball player Chris Richardson died in his sleep Wednesday morning in Sasebo, Japan, where he was touring with the Harlem Globetrotters.
Elijah Johnson didn’t take long Wednesday to quell concerns about knee injuries that kept him sidelined Tuesday.
Most high school kickers looking to play college football are fortunate to land full scholarship offers as seniors, if at all.
Anglers no longer have to wait for the striped bass action to heat up at Lake Mead and Lake Mohave. Although stripers had been biting, the storm that passed through during Thanksgiving week seemed to give action a little jump-start.
Sporting two layers of jackets and a ski hat under a baseball cap, Edward Janese arrived prepared for another cold morning as a crossing guard at Lamb Boulevard and Bonanza Road Wednesday morning.
He has served as Assembly speaker and the chief of police for Nevada’s second-largest city. Richard Perkins plans to draw on both jobs in his latest role: paid lobbyist for the city of Henderson.
RENO — A rape victim sobbed on the witness stand Wednesday as she identified the man alleged to be her attacker as the same Reno man accused of rape, murder and kidnapping in a series of assaults that terrorized a university campus a year ago.
Twenty kids from foreign places stood before the public Wednesday night and declared their loyalty to this country.
CARSON CITY — Union leaders said Wednesday that they will probably sue if Gov. Jim Gibbons follows through on his decision not to offer state employees and teachers any type of salary increases, including step increases, in the next two-year budget.
Future Hall of Fame pitcher Greg Maddux took the same approach to public speaking as he did with hitters: Make it short and sweet.
Electronic eavesdropping is a prosecutor’s best friend. Defendants can’t deny the stupid words out of their own mouths.
A panel of Nevada Supreme Court justices heard arguments Wednesday over whether the Clark County School District defamed the reputation of Virtual Education Software when school officials labeled its classes as too easy.
CARSON CITY — A longtime state employee was named by Gov. Jim Gibbons on Wednesday to lead the Department of Motor Vehicles.
You don’t need a crystal ball to predict the potential impacts of climate change on the Colorado River. According to UNLV researchers, what could happen to the river is happening already.
The Nevada State Health Division has fined Desert Springs Hospital and Medical Center $1.14 million for more than 200 violations in its mammography department, including failing to document whether its mammogram system was operating as it should before some patient exams in 2007, health officials announced Wednesday.
The Las Vegas Valley Water District has been fined $10,000 for violating county air quality regulations.
RENO — A man convicted of killing a University of Nevada, Reno professor was ordered to spend the rest of his life in prison by a judge who told him he would die behind bars.
The suspect held in a slaying Tuesday told police she killed her 72-year-old sister because the two were in poor health, burdened by bills and medical expenses, and wanted to die, according to her arrest report.
WASHINGTON — A last-minute illness forced Ariella Nounna-Holton of Las Vegas to cancel a coveted invitation to play her violin at the White House last December.
