Baseball’s annual All-Star break typically flies by for players, but it might seem like a long layoff for the 51s if they don’t enter it with a win.
Few noticed in April when Hawaiian pro surfer C.J. Kanuha paddled within a few yards of volcanic lava flowing into the ocean on the big island’s southeastern coast.
When he won the slam dunk contest at the 2007 NBA All-Star Game in the Thomas & Mack Center, Gerald Green had to believe it was the last time he’d be stepping on a basketball court in Las Vegas.
Swimming sensation Dara Torres wound up in the gossip section of a Miami-area newspaper over the weekend.
RENO — Layha Spoonhunter intends to cast his first presidential vote for Barack Obama. The 18-year-old Northern Arapaho from Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation identifies with the black candidate.
A robbery that escalated into a hostage crisis was defused by a quick-moving Henderson police officer Sunday.
SALT LAKE CITY — The creator of a 2008 calendar that featured shirtless Mormon missionaries was excommunicated Sunday after a disciplinary meeting with local church leaders in Las Vegas.
Days after health officials announced their theories behind how six people contracted hepatitis C at a Las Vegas endoscopy center, Nevadans turned to their health care providers and asked: “Do you reuse syringes and needles?”
Several people who worked to get signatures on an initiative petition pushed by former Assemblywoman Sharron Angle say they have not been paid what they are owed for their work.
BRIDGEPORT, Calif. — The hunt for multimillionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who vanished in September after taking off by plane from a remote Nevada ranch, resumes today as a team of elite athletes and expert mountaineers starts hiking through rugged mountains on the California-Nevada border where he may have crashed.
CARSON CITY — Nevada Supreme Court justices face what could be the most critical hearing of their careers today when they listen to lawyers argue whether term limits for public officials are constitutional.
Oh, to be Harry Reid’s kid. You want something, you get it.
Anyone who hasn’t been asleep in a cave for 50 years knows the U.S. government pays farmers not to grow crops.
The National Governors Association kicked off its 100th annual gathering Saturday in Philadelphia with a speech by former President Bill Clinton that emphasized the role states play in setting national policy.
The right arm, large patches of its skin purple from subcutaneous hemorrhaging, shakes as it strains toward full extension.
The Green Valley chapter of the National Charity League honored 21 high school girls for their volunteer service with Henderson charitable and nonprofit organizations at its annual Senior Presentation in June. All of the girls are 2008 high school graduates who participated in the mother-daughter service organization for six years.
A patio bench from Target is winning the war it’s waging on my attempt to remove it from the customer’s house. And, just for kicks, it has pinned me to a door.
Southern Nevada Health District immunization clinics are open each week in and around Las Vegas. A $16-$25 administration fee will be assessed per visit.
All sorts of people like downtown Las Vegas for all sorts of reasons.
The Hepatitis C Support Group meets at 3 p.m. Tuesdays at Community Counseling Center, 1120 Almond Tree Lane (369-8700).