Former Western High School track star Rodney Martin, who narrowly missed an individual berth in the upcoming Summer Olympics, was named to the U.S. team Monday for the squad’s pool in the 4×100 relay.
Once the baseball media moves past the tales of Alex Rodriguez, Madonna and Josh Hamilton — if that ever happens — the focus should shift to the Chicago Cubs.
After a rough stretch of starts, 51s right-hander Jon Meloan finally had reason to feel good about himself after walking off the mound Monday. So did his teammates.
Triple A is just one level in a player’s ascension to major league success, but in the case of the Los Angeles Dodgers — and formerly the San Diego Padres — it might be the most important one.
Romel Beck was hoping his latest Las Vegas homecoming would last longer than eight minutes.
Golfers with Monday tee times at Stallion Mountain Country Club didn’t even need to take their clubs out of the trunk.
No longer are the Brett Favre rumors “all rumor,” as the retired quarterback said last week. He definitely wants to return to the NFL this season, and he might not do so with the Green Bay Packers.
It was easy to envision Internet message boards devoted to the Minnesota Timberwolves exploding with anger as Kevin Love missed shot after shot and committed foul after foul early in his NBA Summer League debut Monday.
An article in Sunday’s Review-Journal misstated the percentage of the Nevada vote earned by presidential candidate Ross Perot. Perot earned 26.2 percent of the vote in 1992 and 9.5 percent in 1996.
CARSON CITY — Attorneys for the Legislature and secretary of state’s office hope the Nevada Supreme Court makes it clear in its coming decision on term limits how replacements will be named if candidates for elected offices are ruled ineligible to serve.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — A California-based company is planning a 380,000-square-foot commercial center on 37 acres in the northwest Arizona community of Golden Valley.
The Kroger Co. — which has Smith’s stores in the Las Vegas Valley — has expanded a June 25 recall of ground-beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 bacteria, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Celebrity rapper Snoop Dogg is no stranger to Las Vegas. He’s performed here countless times and has been spotted around town with fellow rapper Bow Wow, football player Terrell Owens and others on the A-List.
BRIDGEPORT, Calif. — A 10-member team of elite athletes and expert mountaineers fanned out on foot Monday in rugged mountains on the Nevada-California border, hoping to find what search planes and satellite imagery couldn’t — Steve Fossett’s body.
Federal prosecutors on Monday filed notice that they intend to appeal a U.S. district judge’s decision to drop criminal charges against personal injury attorney Noel Gage.
CARSON CITY — Supreme Court justices and candidates’ attorneys challenged arguments Monday by a legislative lawyer who said voters didn’t understand what they were doing when they passed a constitutional amendment in 1994 and again in 1996 limiting the terms of officeholders to 12 years.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain is scheduled to return to Nevada later this month for a fundraiser at Lake Tahoe.
RENO — Officials hope technology, newly licensed counselors, partnerships with higher education and community education about suicide will reduce deaths and improve the quality of life for rural Nevadans.
The former president of the teachers’ union is applying for a Clark County School District job that she helped create, fueling one critic who says that top union officials are “in cozy collusion” with district administrators so they can get well-paid, non-classroom positions once their leadership terms expire.
There’s no red carpet when a show closes. On Sunday night, with little fanfare, “Monty Python’s Spamalot” ended after 14 months at Wynn Las Vegas, not because people stopped paying to see the musical, but to make way for the hotel’s next act, Danny Gans.
WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Jon Porter fired an opening shot on energy Monday against challenger Dina Titus, saying the Democrat has shifted her position on offshore oil drilling as a strategy to combat rising gasoline prices.
Putting pressure on congressional Democrats to allow more domestic exploration, President Bush on Monday lifted an 18-year-old executive order banning offshore oil drilling.