Chace Stanback scored 11 points and Tre’Von Willis had eight to lift UNLV to a 41-34 halftime lead over Brigham Young in a semifinal game at the Thomas & Mack Center.

Sources tell CityLife Louis “Father Louie” Vitale, the pioneering, 77-year-old Franciscan prisoner of conscience serving six months in jail for trespassing onto a U.S. Army base in Georgia last November, has been moved to a medium-security prison in Atlanta.
Officials with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons were ultimately unavailable for comment, but friends and longtime colleagues [...]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s wife underwent surgery Friday to stabilize serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trailer rear-ended the minivan she and their daughter were riding in on an interstate highway.

When Ryan Selasky was a kid learning to skateboard, he was pretty much on his own. He learned through trial and error on sidewalks and parking lots.
Now 35, Selasky skates with his son, Kaden, at well-maintained skateparks across the valley. But quite possibly not for much longer.

A 15-year-old resident of Fresh Start Services on Apricot Lane contracted an antibiotic-resistant staph infection earlier this week, leading to the closure yesterday of the home for juvenile probationers. Catherine Tokarczyk, the mother of the infected boy, said her son developed a rash and a fever earlier this week, and was left untreated for three days.
Girma [...]

WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid’s wife and daughter were hospitalized in suburban Virginia this afternoon after they were involved in a serious auto accident.

A representative for Nevada Sen. Harry Reid said the senator’s wife, Landra suffered a broken neck, broken back and broken nose following an accident in Washington, D.C.

CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons on Thursday vetoed the bill that would have created a four-day work week for most state employees.

A majority of respondents to a FOX5 Web poll say they want to see the Clark County School District split up.

A series of e-mails disclosed Wednesday by The New York Times documents efforts by Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., to help a former staffer line up lobbying work in the aftermath of Ensign’s affair with the staffer’s wife.

The atmosphere last night at the wake for Yucca Mountain was as charged as a brick of enriched uranium. Ghostbar hosted a motley group of activists and politicians, who turned the U.S. Department of Energy’s decision to withdraw the nuke dump’s application into an excuse to backslap and imbibe. The cocktail of the night? The Yuccatini, a [...]

Nevada casinos had a revenue decrease in January, but it was small compared to previous months. The gaming industry is hoping this signals a turnaround in the near future.

Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman has asked the city attorney to look into whether it would be legal and financially feasible to fire all city employees and hire them back on shorter schedules. |

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles coroner’s office says “The Lost Boys” actor Corey Haim is dead at 38.

Actor Corey Haim, who died in California on Wednesday morning, made one of his final public appearances on the red carpet in Las Vegas earlier this year. |

A 26-year-old man’s shooting rampage Monday afternoon at a southeast valley apartment complex was sparked by an argument with his girlfriend, who told the man she was leaving him, a police report released Tuesday said.

A domestic dispute on Monday at a Las Vegas apartment complex led to a shooting spree that ended with one man dead and two others severely injured, according to a Metro police report.

The U.S. Census Bureau is taking some heat after sending millions of letters telling people their census forms are on the way. |

It was a put-down-your-wine-and-stand-up moment. Two-thirds of the way through the Academy Awards telecast March 7, the sound of local musician Mike Weller’s voice and guitar accompanied images of joggers running through the desert, during a McDonald’s commercial. The song, “We are Alive,” is by his band, Hungry Cloud. It had previously been featured on [...]