Certain obsessed NFL coaches have been known to live in their offices during the season. But they’ve got nothing on 51s clubhouse manager C.J. Allen, who regularly works 16-hour days and sleeps at Cashman Field during each homestand.
SAN DIEGO — If this was Greg Maddux’s last start with the San Diego Padres, he went out with his hard-earned 351st career victory and some love from the fans.
In the heyday of stock-car racing, when the cars looked like those you’d see on Route 66, the adage was, “Win on Sunday and sell on Monday.”
•The occupation of John Hambrick, candidate for the Assembly District 2, was misidentified in Sunday’s editions of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He is a retired member of federal law enforcement.
The 19-year-old man accused of shooting and wounding four Mojave High School students and two other people at a bus stop has pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted murder and agreed to testify against two co-defendants.
You never know whom you’ll meet on a trip to Sandy Valley, where the humble citizenry has once again defeated the mighty Vidler Water Co. before the Nevada Supreme Court.
State Sen. Dina Titus, D-Las Vegas, summed up her package of energy proposals Monday as “help now, bridge the gap and plan for the future.”
A lawyer for Dr. Dipak Desai told the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners on Monday that the physician whose clinics are linked to a major hepatitis outbreak has suffered a stroke.
Las Vegas police are searching for a man wanted in connection with drug-related slaying earlier in the month.
RENO — Gov. Jim Gibbons quietly appointed four new members to the Nevada Wildlife Commission, disregarding the wishes of some sportsmen and farmers’ groups who fear the changes will mean a new course for wildlife management in the state.
When early voters went to the polls Monday, they didn’t get a chance to cast a vote for or against term limiting elected officials.
A 59-year-old man accused of killing his live-in girlfriend was found guilty of first-degree murder and robbery Monday.
Mosquitoes in southeast Las Vegas have tested positive for West Nile virus, and health officials are, for the fourth year in a row, urging valley residents to use bug repellent while outside.
CARSON CITY — University system Regent Howard Rosenberg said Monday he might challenge the Nevada Supreme Court decision that prevents him and 20 others from running for re-election.
Experts say the falloff in gasoline expenses won’t necessarily translate into higher consumer spending or a return to historic levels of fuel consumption.
Director John Beane has hit on an interesting idea in the Insurgo Movement’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
The decomposed body of a man who had been shot in the head was found by police Monday morning in a drainage ditch near Washington Avenue and Lamb Boulevard.
CARSON CITY — An initiative petition pushed by state Senate candidate Sharron Angle to put a property tax cap in the state constitution has enough signatures in Clark County to qualify for the ballot, an official said Monday.
Two months ago, I made the point that a steak-and-eggs breakfast in Las Vegas was cheaper than the price of a gallon of gas. With soaring energy costs fueling increases in the price of food and other consumer goods, it seems that any kind of bargain these days will be harder to find, even in a city famous for them.
Howard Rosenberg has served as a regent for Nevada’s higher education system since 1996. He’s lucky he’s been there that long, considering he’s also an art professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, and his election to the board raised legitimate questions about double-dipping, conflicts of interest and the separation of powers.
It used to be assumed that matching a suspect’s fingerprints to those found at a crime scene was irrefutable proof you had the right man — until the well-publicized case of American lawyer Brandon Mayfield, incorrectly linked by so-called FBI “fingerprint experts” to the scene of the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
Mutual of Omaha Bank, which acquired assets from failed First National Bank of Nevada, started its first day of operation Monday in Nevada without facing lines of panicked depositors such as those who showed up when IndyMac Bank of Pasadena, Calif., failed earlier this month.
The World Market Center on Monday flung open the doors of its 17-story, $550 million building to greet a furniture industry that’s facing a world of problems thanks to the troubled economy.