UNLV roundup: Softball team splits two tournament games

UNLV split two games on the second day of its season-opening softball tournament Saturday, routing Cal State Northridge 10-1 before falling to Oregon State 3-1 at Eller Media Stadium.

Jon Jones fights off title challenge at UFC 247

Jon Jones faced his most serious challenge in years and ultimately held off Dominick Reyes at UFC 247 on Saturday night, retaining his UFC light heavyweight belt following a surprisingly strong opening by Reyes.

LETTER: Nancy Pelosi and the ripped speech

This is the behavior others accuse the president of exhibiting. And she wasn’t impeached.

STEVE SEBELIUS: Ditch Iowa — and the caucus

The failure of the Iowa caucus shows it’s long past time to let another state move up on the presidential nominating calendar, and to get rid of the caucus system while we’re at it.

 
Nonprofit distributes backpacks to homeless in Las Vegas

The CITYPAK Project — a nonprofit initiative founded by music executive Ron Kaplan — held an event Saturday at the Las Vegas Rescue Mission.

XFL returns with entertaining debut in DC

The debut of the new XFL had a punt blocked for a touchdown, a juiced-up crowd roaring for big plays and a player swearing during an in-game television interview.

Actor Orson Bean, 91, hit and killed by car in LA

Orson Bean, the witty actor and comedian who enlivened the game show “To Tell the Truth” and played a crotchety merchant on “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” was hit and killed by a car in Los Angeles, authorities said. He was 91.

Shooting in northwest Las Vegas leaves 1 injured

One person was hospitalized with a gunshot wound Saturday evening near Cheyenne Avenue and Michael Way, the Metropolitan Police Department said.

Robert Conrad, star of ‘Wild, Wild West,’ dies at 84

Robert Conrad, the rugged, contentious actor who starred in the hugely popular 1960s television series Hawaiian Eye and The Wild, Wild West, died Saturday. He was 84.

Major League Rugby comes to Las Vegas

Sam Boyd Stadium is hosting Major League Rugby’s opening weekend and is the site of five games — one Sunday and two apiece on Feb. 15 and 16.

The 5 worst bad beats of the week

An all-time Super Bowl prop loss and some brutal changes of fortune in basketball make up our first weekly compilation of games bettors want to forget.

 
4 arrested in Pahrump on child abuse, sex assault charges

Detectives executed a search warrant on a residence, and four suspects were booked into the Nye County Detention Center, the sheriff’s office said Saturday.

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