The night before he announced that his car number in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series next year would be 14 to salute his racing idol, A.J. Foyt, Tony Stewart flashed the kind of the temper that Foyt was known for.
UNLV basketball coach Lon Kruger left at halftime, probably to go enjoy a more interesting game at a local high school. Courtside fans Warren Buffett and Bill Gates also bailed early, because when bank accounts worth a combined $120 billion begin plunging like Katie Couric’s ratings, heading to the nickel slots seems a better idea than sitting through routs like the one Team USA pinned on Canada on Friday.
When a player gets sent down from the big leagues — especially after performing well, as was the case with Las Vegas left-hander Eric Stults recently — it can be difficult to deal with.
If the terraces, ledges and boulders that block shots at your favorite miniature golf course give you fits, consider the rock-and-a-hard-place course operators could find themselves straddling thanks to proposed regulations for disabled access.
CARSON CITY — A state agency has announced it will have employees working overtime beginning today to process unemployment benefit claims.
Aggravation is dialing and redialing the same phone number for more than five hours a day, only to get a busy signal. And I’m not talking dialing a few times a day when it crosses someone’s mind. I’m talking about dialing every three seconds from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., then starting again from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Tests of soil and water where 71 wild horses died on the Tonopah Test Range might have been compromised because the samples were collected seven months after the animals died, according to the manager of a team of scientists who analyzed the data.
Nevada Republican Party officials appointed a slate of delegates Friday evening to September’s Republican national convention after the party failed to elect delegates at its state convention in April.
CARSON CITY — Twenty-one elected officials, including long-serving Clark County Commissioner Bruce Woodbury, were tossed off the ballot Friday when the Nevada Supreme Court ruled they were ineligible to run for re-election because of term limits.
The Nevada Highway Patrol sergeant charged with driving under the influence of marijuana resigned Friday.
CARSON CITY — A lower court ruling that rolled back taxes for a group of Lake Tahoe residents involved in a six-year battle over their land and property values was upheld Friday by the Nevada Supreme Court.
Constituents of Assemblyman Marcus Conklin, D-Las Vegas, got a flier recently letting them know they can go ahead and vote in the primary if they want, but they shouldn’t expect to see him there.
The marriage bureau employee being investigated to see if cash was mishandled or taken from the office has resigned, said Clark County Clerk Shirley Parraguirre, who also said the inquiry will continue.
A notorious drug kingpin and Las Vegas high-roller who was acquitted of hiring actor Woody Harrelson’s father to kill a federal judge died Friday in Mesa, Ariz.
Maybe it was an omen: Team USA’s Olympic sendoff Friday included three billionaires known for cashing in on golden opportunities.
Linda DeMeo is running for justice of the peace on a platform that includes plans for Pahrump’s first night court, but all some people seem to want to talk about is the man she’s sleeping with.
Three burglars seeking drugs and money burst into a southwest valley home Thursday night and fatally shot a man in the head, police said.
WASHINGTON — The government has endangered the public’s health and safety by failing to clean up abandoned mines on federal land in the West, according to a scathing audit released Friday.
Las Vegas police are warning residents of a phone scam that allows prison inmates to use the victim’s phone number for unlimited long-distance calling.
First, she put on the outfit: tight shorts, a body-hugging tank top and a pair of running shoes.
It looked like business as usual when a woman with a child walked up to the front door of the First National Bank branch at 4950 W. Flamingo Road about 5 p.m. Friday.
It’s been 13 years, but one man’s battle against the city’s effort to seize his Las Vegas property for the benefit of a local casino may finally be coming to a close.
Developers of Vantage Lofts, the stalled 110-unit condo project in Henderson, are seeking U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval for $15 million in funding to complete construction of the first 40-unit building, clubhouse and swimming pool.
Passenger counts at McCarran International Airport fell 7 percent in June, another indication that the nation’s shaky economy is undermining the leisure travel industry.
Sierra Pacific Resources, the parent of Nevada Power Co., on Friday reported second-quarter net income increased 40 percent, despite the slump in the economy and cooler temperatures than last summer.