In the summer before his senior year in high school, Wink Adams had plenty of college options. He was being looked at seriously by Florida, Arkansas and Connecticut, to name just a few schools.
Joey Rickard made it three straight solid starting pitching efforts as Bishop Gorman beat Honolulu 14-4 in the American Legion Western Regional on Saturday in Surprise, Ariz.
ELY — Linebacker Jason Beauchamp got it started early for UNLV’s defense.
In his 1975 autobiography, “The Greatest: My Own Story,” Muhammad Ali claims he threw his boxing gold medal from the 1960 Rome Olympics — back when he still was known as Cassius Clay — into the Ohio River in a protest of racism in his native Louisville, Ky.
Not even reinforcements from their parent club Saturday night could prevent the 51s from skidding back to .500.
BEIJING — Cheering from the pool deck, Michael Phelps won his record eighth gold medal of the Beijing Games today to become the grandest of Olympic champions.
Listen to the pit bulls of talk radio for a while, and you’ll hear the ACLU mentioned.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Saturday she will seek an extension of a decade-old program to preserve Lake Tahoe’s cobalt blue waters, while Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne authorized another $54 million in funding for conservation projects.
Several incumbents were swept out of office in Tuesday’s primary, which drew the fewest voters of any election in at least 12 years.
It used to be a joke. Not even a whole joke; a punch line.
SAYING SOMEONE IS BETTER THAN MOST CLARK COUNTY COMMISSIONERS isn’t saying much, considering the tendency of such politicians to end up on the wrong end of criminal prosecutions.
Irish rocker Sir Bob Geldof is reportedly furious over the surprise wedding of his 19-year-old daughter in Las Vegas.
CARSON CITY — With the preliminary round now out of the way, the serious business of party politics has begun for state lawmakers — and Democrats are looking for a way to take control of the Senate, where they last held the majority a distant 17 years ago.
I was driving to Robert Hall’s home this week, and I couldn’t help but wonder if the trip would be faster if the Las Vegas Beltway’s interchange with Lake Mead Boulevard was opened.
Rodolfo Meana pulled back his left pant leg to show where a bullet ripped through his thigh.
BEIJING — He is difficult to distinguish now as cars rush by and tourists herd between one side of the street and the other. They were eager to chase the prospect of a better life back then, too. People forget that part. Massacres tend to have that affect.
Think of history’s great architects: Michelangelo. Le Corbusier. Frank Lloyd Wright. Mike Brady.
A 26-year-old woman died in far northwest Las Vegas on Saturday when she failed to make a right turn and drove into the desert.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has called on the Transportation Security Administration to investigate whether Las Vegas-assigned air marshals have been appropriately sanctioned for acts including drunken driving and reckless use of weapons.
If you’re looking for themes for the Democratic National Convention next week from Denver, here are three.
By any measure, Nevada has among the lowest high school graduation rates in United States. Thomas Jefferson said, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be.”