At least five Palo Verde football players could end up with Football Bowl Subdivision programs next year.
Working for a billionaire owner and helping to develop some of the NBA’s best young talent, Bill Bayno seemingly had it made as an assistant coach for the Portland Trail Blazers.
UNLV coach Mike Sanford was talking this week about the ways Phillip Payne could get better as a wide receiver, then Sanford started feeling guilty.
• LAKE MEAD — Fishing is fair along the beaches north of Hemenway and near the fishing pier. Anglers are seeing lots of small striper boils in the area and catching some fish. Most are small.
Despite all his success, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno is not guaranteed a job next year. Paterno’s contract expires after this season, and no one is addressing his future.
• ARBOR VIEW — Football player Gabe Toney rushed for 196 yards on 18 carries and had 11 tackles in a 28-7 victory over Centennial. Girls cross country runner Kourtney Willey placed second in the sophomore race at the Bud O’Dea Freshman-Sophomore Championships with a time of 17 minutes, 8 seconds for the 2.5-mile race.
Davis Love III was scheduled to tee off at TPC Summerlin at 11:50 a.m. Wednesday. He was playing in a group behind Olympic swimmer/Playboy cover girl Amanda Beard.
A car accident took away most of Tameka Demps’ golf season. The Silverado junior more than made up for it Wednesday.
Shadow Ridge cross country coach Patrick Fitzgerald knew little about Michelle Schenck when she moved from Clovis, N.M., to Las Vegas last fall.
After dodging a cancer scare last month, George McNeill figured nothing he encountered on the golf course could shake him.
Whether it’s the result of global warming or growth and the accompanying “heat island effect,” Nevada’s largest cities are heating up faster than most others in the nation based on a study of weather data released Wednesday by an environmental group.
WASHINGTON — Gov. Jim Gibbons met Wednesday with Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to discuss alternative energy, which he described as critical to Nevada’s future.
State Senate and Clark County Commission candidates will debate today at the studio of Vegas PBS, also known as KLVX-TV, Channel 10.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday that Congress has acted to help Wall Street but must do more to provide assistance to the middle class.
Rep. Jon Porter accused his challenger, state Sen. Dina Titus, of changing political positions, while Titus said Porter is “part of the problem” that has led to the nation’s troubles in a televised debate Wednesday.
A training weapon fell Wednesday morning from a Nellis Air Force Base aircraft and a piece of it struck a truck traveling south on Las Vegas Boulevard.
It was a deja vu moment: There was former cocktail waitress Chrissy Mazzeo in an attorney’s office accusing Gov. Jim Gibbons of assaulting her in a parking garage. Her attorney claimed some of Nevada’s most powerful men had orchestrated a cover-up. She was mobbed by local media who shouted over each other to get questions answered. It could have been 2006 all over again. But this time, Mazzeo was on the offensive.
Las Vegas police were still searching Wednesday evening for a 6-year-old boy kidnapped at gunpoint from his northeast valley home in the morning.
The economic downturn is forcing Harrah’s Entertainment to cut costs and lay off workers, but the company’s chief financial officer Wednesday dismissed as “absurd” any speculation that the company is in greater financial peril than its Strip competitors because of its heavy debt load and falling revenues.
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman got out of his chair and danced Wednesday as the City Council finished approving permits for three new tenants in Neonopolis, a shopping mall at the Fremont Street Experience that’s had trouble retaining businesses.
CARSON CITY — A former Supreme Court justice whose name surfaced in a recent investigation of prominent campaign manager Gary Gray said Wednesday that any suggestion that he made deals with attorneys in exchange for campaign contributions was “absolutely false.”
Echoing charges made by Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primaries, the Republican governor of Hawaii told potential voters in Henderson on Wednesday that the brief legislative record of Barack Obama proves he is not a leader.
It is the cynic who sees no point in presidential debates, these pseudo standoffs in which the candidates attack one another.
If you were born in another country and are arrested by Las Vegas police, your name will be checked against a federal database.
An article in the Business section of Wednesday’s Review-Journal contained an error. The Nevada Treasurer’s Office no longer offers allodial titles.
As a teenager, Neal E. Boyd would shut his bedroom door, turn on a Three Tenors or Bon Jovi CD, use a flashlight as his spotlight and sing his heart out. His dream of performing in front of cheering crowds recently came true when he won the national television contest “America’s Got Talent.”