MONTREAL — Canadian road racer Ron Fellows splashed his way to victory Saturday in the first NASCAR points event run on grooved rain tires, winning when heavy rain and poor visibility forced officials to end the race 26 laps early.
When he ran into Ozzie Smith at the Hall of Fame ceremony July 27, Ernie Banks stopped in his tracks. Smith wanted to talk about the Chicago Cubs — the first-place Cubs — and Mr. Cub was happy to listen.
The 51s, with Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Brad Penny making a rehabilitation start, lost to the Oklahoma RedHawks 4-3 Saturday in a Pacific Coast League game in Oklahoma City.
In the end, there was blood — not tears — flowing from near Zab Judah’s right eye. Either way, Joshua Clottey produced what he predicted.
Carlos Condit’s dominance as the World Extreme Cagefighting welterweight champion has led to speculation that he soon might be asked to step up to the UFC.
The Nevada Board of Osteopathic Medicine is looking to suspend a local doctor over allegations of prescription drug abuse.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A 17-year-old Bakersfield girl has lost a two-year battle with valley fever, a usually nonfatal illness caused by fungus spores in the soil.
An electrical fire broke out at a Henderson home Saturday, displacing its residents.
Restaurateur Freddie Glusman was on the telephone from California, angry with the coverage of his arrest in an assault case.
George Lopez remembers campaigning for Bill Clinton in 1992, when Lopez’s career was just getting started and “nobody really cared what I thought.”
ELKO — Newmont Mining Corp. has been faulted for a deadly June 2007 mine accident in Northern Nevada.
WASHINGTON — Work in Congress effectively stalled last week in a bitter partisan debate over how to respond to the nation’s energy crisis.
DENVER — Judge Lael Montgomery confesses she was uneasy the first time she had to judge her own work, and read what attorneys, jurors and others thought about her, under Colorado’s performance evaluation system for judges.
ELKO — Mormon crickets were on the march in smaller numbers across Nevada this summer as predicted, experts said.
So what does one of the largest bankruptcies in Nevada history look like from street level?
It began more than 40 years ago with plans to build a resort on the shores of Lake Mead, not far from where the Las Vegas Wash empties into the reservoir.
Charged with protecting commercial airlines, the Federal Air Marshal Service has ballooned since 2001. The conduct of some Las Vegas-based air marshals has been questionable, and critics say the offenders received less-than-appropriate punishments. Yet other agents who brought attention to perceived management problems have been severely disciplined. What do these incidents say about this law enforcement agency?
One Rimer son told her about his father calling him the devil and spanking him so hard he couldn’t sit.
At the risk of quintupling the reach of his message, I must take issue with yet another editorial rant from Perry Rogers on his daddy’s television station, KVBC-TV, Channel 3.
By any measure, we are experiencing the worst housing crisis since the Great Depression. In Las Vegas, one housing price index is down 29 percent from its peak in August 2006. Foreclosures are rampant, new home sales are in the tank and consumer confidence has fallen to historic lows.