By RICHARD LAKE LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL How do you get more than 100 college professors to crowd themselves into a windowless ballroom smack dab in the middle of July? Ask them who they want their new boss to be. That’s what happened Tuesday at...

By FRANK CURRERI REVIEW-JOURNAL Until the moment when Patricia Copening crashed a Dodge Durango into a father of two and killed him, she had received prescriptions entitling her to 5,587 powerful painkilling pills over a one-year period. Now, the dead man’s family has sued...

BY BRIAN HAYNES Review-JournalThe man charged with chopping more than 600 trees in the Anthem community of Henderson was orderedTuesday to stand trial, despite his lawyer’s argument that the tree-cutting sprees would be far too much work for one person to carry out. Douglas...

Maybe you’re fed up with your boss, or you’re sick of your co-workers or hours or you just think you can do better than the person who runs the company. Most of us still drudge through our eight-hour-plus shifts like lemmings, marching toward an...

By K.C. HOWARD REVIEW-JOURNAL A prosecutor asked District Judge Valorie Vega to sentence Dominic Jones to six to 15 years in prison Tuesday for being an accessory to the murder of a 19-year-old man, but Vega gave Jones five years of probation instead. “Oh...

By RICHARD LAKE LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL A proposed new 40,000-seat domed football stadium at UNLV would sit between the Thomas & Mack Center on campus and Paradise Road, said James Dean Leavitt, chairman of the higher education system’s Board of Regents. If it is...

To the editor: On June 5, the Review-Journal published an ill-informed editorial alleging the Board of Regents was incapable of addressing the purported shortcomings within the Nevada System of Higher Education. The editorial was replete with erroneous conclusions. First, you say the board should...

By summer, James Dean Leavitt and Jesse Daniel Leavitt will share more than a family name. Diplomas in hand, father and son will walk the stage as newly minted UNLV graduates at the school’s Thomas & Mack Center — the elder with a master’s...

Robert Kilroy, the chief of staff and special counsel to the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents, resigned late Thursday and agreed to a $110,000 payout from regents that ends his stint under the board after just three months on the job, according to documents...

When Gov. Brian Sandoval put his pen to the jacket covering Senate Bill 514 on Thursday at UNLV, it was the end of a remarkably rapid journey and the start of a brand-new one. Although the idea of starting a medical school at UNLV...

A 13-year-old charged with murder in North Las Vegas has had his case dismissed by a justice of peace.

Teenager Jose Escamilla was one of three defendants charged with murder in the slaying of ...

By K.C. HOWARD REVIEW-JOURNAL Regent James Dean Leavitt caught the largest of all the salmon bagged this year on the chancellor’s annual fishing trip. The 32-pounder secured bragging rights for Leavitt, a neophyte angler. “Just the fact that I can tease Stavros for an...

By LAWRENCE MOWER REVIEW-JOURNAL Chancellor Jim Rogers and Regent James Dean Leavitt sat together during a luncheon at McCormick & Schmick’son Tuesday, showing that they have smoothed over a dispute that shook up the higher education community. “I think that this was a minor...

By DAVID KIHARA REVIEW-JOURNALMitchell Chirchick was accused of swindling hundreds of people out of Pro Bowl travel packages to Hawaii in 2007. The victims included police officers and firefighters in Denver and a 10-year-old girl in Las Vegas who was awarded a trip through...

The UNLV campus is going to grow by 42 acres and gain enough ground for a potential new football stadium. The state Board of Regents voted Friday to allow UNLV officials to move ahead with the purchase of the 42-acre parcel between the campus...

James Dean Leavitt wants to keep the dome alive. Leavitt, a member of the Nevada Board of Regents and the 11-member UNLV stadium board, has asked acting university President Don Snyder to consider the option of adding a dome in the future if the...

To the editor: At the Board of Regents meeting in Elko in September, the Health Sciences System Committee directed the presidents of the University of Nevada, Reno and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, along with the UNR medical school dean, to develop plans...

Other than the night during March Madness a couple of years ago when a bunch of fellow scribes and I shamed Mark Alden into buying us a sack of White Castles after the bars closed in St. Louis, I couldn’t remember the last time I broke bread with...