•The federal agency that operates Hoover Dam was misidentified in Jane Ann Morrison’s Monday column. It is the Bureau of Reclamation. Also, the column inaccurately stated that the dam is the largest concrete structure in the world.
It’s the first week of December, and that means it’s time to start getting worked up about the failings of the Bowl Championship Series.
UNLV football coach Mike Sanford met with athletic director Mike Hamrick for two hours Monday to discuss the state of the program, but there was no news of a contract extension.
Skiing in the Alps and traveling to Paris and Switzerland was an experience “second to none” for Wranglers center Chris Neiszner, who, after playing two years in Las Vegas, spent last season playing in France’s top professional league for Morzine-Avoriaz.
Fifteen minutes after Monday’s practice, UNLV senior Wink Adams still was shooting jumpers. He was making most of them, too. “Constantly shooting,” Adams said when asked how he plans to emerge from one of the worst slumps of his career.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — There was a time not long ago when people couldn’t turn inside the Wild Card Boxing Club and not see an image of Oscar De La Hoya.
When comedian Ron White performs Friday and Saturday at The Mirage, he’ll be showing up as a low-level criminal suspect.
In its biggest electric rate case since the aftermath of the energy crisis in 2001, NV Energy on Monday proposed a 17.5 percent increase in local residential rates, starting Sept. 1.
Like the blind wise men who finally get around to correctly identifying the elephant, the National Bureau of Economic Research declared Monday that the U.S. economy is in recession — and has been since last December.
Monday’s announcement that the economy has spent 2008 wallowing in recession didn’t surprise local researchers or business owners.
CARSON CITY — Nevada is now experiencing the worst of times as far as tax revenues go, concluded the state’s Economic Forum on Monday.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s picks got an approving reaction from Nevada’s three Democrats who will serve in the new Congress.
A federal court hearing has been postponed for up to 90 days for the grandfather of a 6-year-old Las Vegas boy who was abducted in October.
A husband and wife found dead in what is believed to be a murder-suicide in their Las Vegas home on Thanksgiving Day have been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office as Jacob Levin, 62, and Susan Levin, 59.
Assistant Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said Monday that his office has no plans to exhume the body of James “Buffalo Jim” Barrier for further testing.
