Desiree Reed-Francois received welcome financial news for the UNLV athletic department before even taking over as its director.

A thaw is underway in Russia, and it has nothing to do with presidential politics.

Every 9 seconds a woman in America is beaten or assaulted.

Nevada consistently ranks high in deaths related to domestic violence. In 2016, there were at least 24, according to the Nevada Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence. The year before, 43 victims lost their lives.

Before he became UNLV’s first recipient in seven years of a prestigious national science scholarship, Las Vegas native Devon Payne was like most kids growing up — searching for their calling.

Seth Waite was checking out a possible new office location in Las Vegas for his employer, Arkansas-based RevUnit, when he walked into a neighboring business, Teamvvork, to gather some intel.

It had to have been one of the most real-life college assignments students at UNLV’s International Gaming Institute have ever undertaken. Students of Professor Bo Bernhard were asked to write a proposal for an integrated resort to be built in Japan. They had to consider mission statements, design elements, marketing and branding strategies and to make them fit within Japanese cultural expectations. Students also had to consider an extremely important issue — how to minimize compulsive gambling.

Texas junior Scottie Scheffler took a one-stroke lead in the individual competition and UNLV topped the team standings Saturday in the NCAA tournament at Rich Harvest Farms.

On Saturday, hundreds of Las Vegas Muslims gathered at local mosques to break the first fast of Ramadan with prayers. And Imam Fateen Seifullah, a chairman at Al-Maun, a social arm of the Las Vegas Muslim community, said local Muslims are praying for peace in the country, the safety of Muslim-Americans and for a sense of unity.

Ruled out as the location for a stadium now that the Raiders have purchased their preferred Russell Road site, UNLV’s 42-acre plot of land located off Tropicana Avenue now could be destined for mixed uses. UNLV purchased the site near MGM Grand, just blocks away from the main campus, for $50 million in January 2016, with money provided by the nonprofit UNLV Foundation. The purchase was the largest land deal made by the university since the 1960s.