The theme song from “The Godfather” rang out of Toronto Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi’s cell phone Tuesday afternoon at the Bellagio as he held court with reporters during Day 2 of the baseball winter meetings.
The Wranglers scored six goals in the first two periods, rolling over the Fresno Falcons 7-0 Tuesday night in an ECHL game in Fresno, Calif.
Kaycee Feild never got to see his father, Lewis Feild, win the first of his three bareback world championships. He missed the second one, too, and certainly doesn’t remember much about the third.
While Las Vegas is the boxing capital of the world, the city also became the center of the baseball universe this week.
Trevor Brazile needed little more than half of the Nationals Finals Rodeo to clinch his sixth all-around world championship in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.
Mike Stoops watched from the press box two years ago, longing to be on the sideline, as Brigham Young beat Oregon 38-8 in the Las Vegas Bowl.
They held a news conference at the Bellagio on Tuesday about ways to help better educate children and Andre Agassi was involved, which is like saying CC Sabathia is about to receive a decent raise.
Feeling his team was being “outmuscled and outworked,” Bishop Gorman boys basketball coach Grant Rice issued a halftime challenge to his players Tuesday night.
WASHINGTON — Yucca Mountain could hold at least three times more nuclear waste than currently allowed, the Department of Energy said Tuesday in a report that recommends Congress expand the storage site it plans to build in Nevada.
RENO — Nevada has room for improvement in preparing for public health emergencies, such as disease outbreaks, natural disasters and bioterrorism, according to a report released Tuesday.
Some of Clark County’s poorest residents may soon feel the effects of state lawmakers’ budget trimming, especially those who need medical care or are on the brink of becoming homeless.
Among the field of candidates to replace Bob Loux as executive director of the Nevada Nuclear Projects Agency are a former consumer advocate, a former mayor and an agency employee.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons said Tuesday that he will not propose any step or cost-of-living pay increases for public school teachers or state employees in his budget next year.
A job fair will be held Thursday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway to help military veterans and their families find employment in Southern Nevada and elsewhere.
A jury on Tuesday spared the life of the man convicted of killing Las Vegas businessman John Herda and sentenced him to life in prison without the chance for parole.
Authorities unsealed the indictments of 15 people involved in a Eurasian gang on Tuesday, revealing an organized crime ring that raked in about $1.5 million through stolen credit cards and identity theft in the Las Vegas Valley.
The Culinary union expanded its challenge to a new Las Vegas city hall Tuesday and announced a signature drive for ballot measures that could radically alter, or upend, the city’s downtown redevelopment efforts.
A man under investigation as a “person of interest” in a homicide case and who was found dead in a mobile home Monday was identified as 23-year-old George Marcos Calzada III by the Clark County coroner’s office.
Some living near UNLV don’t relish sharing neighborhood with animals.
A day after O.J. Simpson became Nevada prison inmate No. 1027820, four men who helped the fallen football star carry out last year’s hotel room holdup at the Palace Station left the courthouse as free men.
Nevada’s 1864th Transportation Company will be returning to Iraq and Kuwait in the spring where it left in October 2005 after concluding a 14-month stint to haul soldiers, equipment and supplies in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
This week readers want to know when Interstate 15 will be shut down for blasting; what is the reason for the construction on Lone Mountain Road in North Las Vegas; and what is going on with the bus service at Meadows mall.