Good for Corky Simpson. Not for leaving Rickey Henderson off his baseball Hall of Fame ballot. Not for recanting his stance once bloggers assumed their pious positions and embarrassed the retired sports columnist from Arizona for snubbing the player who on Monday correctly sprinted into Cooperstown with nearly 95 percent of the vote.
NEW YORK — Rickey Henderson dashed into the Hall of Fame on his first try. Jim Rice made it with one final swing.
Freshman point guard Oscar Bellfield has been developing into a smooth operator of UNLV’s offense. But he was not running anything during Monday’s practice.
LOS ANGELES — Bill Bayno resigned as basketball coach of Loyola Marymount on Monday while on an extended health leave and will be replaced by acting coach Max Good.
A 57-year-old man died after the motorcycle he was riding collided with a pickup, Henderson police said Monday.
As a veteran scandal trafficker, I appreciate a good bureaucratic controversy more than most.
Monday ended without answers for the grief-stricken family, friends and patients of a physician who was gunned down at her West Charleston Boulevard office by an elderly patient who then shot himself, according to Las Vegas police.
Those who work with the valley’s homeless say an upcoming census probably will reveal an increase in the number of people who have found themselves without a home for the first time in their lives.
In Sunday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal, a photo of Bobbi Davis, an employee of the Korte Company, was mistakenly printed with a quote by another Bobbi Davis who owns a brothel.
A 28-year-old man was arrested last week in the slaying of his wife after he initially told detectives that she had committed suicide, North Las Vegas police said Monday.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons will not appeal a judge’s decision to let the public read legal briefs and other documents he has filed in the divorce case against his estranged wife, former Assemblywoman Dawn Gibbons, his lawyer said Monday.
Attention hotel execs: Howard Stern is on the market to come back to Las Vegas — to record a week’s worth of national radio shows on the grounds of your fancy digs.
WASHINGTON — Southern Nevada’s top water official warned federal policymakers Monday that they underestimate climate change at their own risk as they consider ways to bolster the nation’s infrastructure.
If you had asked folks in Laughlin to give an opinion about the town advisory board a week ago, many — if not most — would have shrugged.
The College of Southern Nevada gets half the money from the state, per student, that Great Basin College gets.
Nevada’s tax structure is fundamentally unfair, burdening the poorest residents the most while letting the rich and big business largely off the hook, according to a new study by a local liberal coalition.
As the nation’s first black president-elect prepares for his inauguration next week, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed this month to hear two cases that could further the ideal of a colorblind society.
Tronox Inc., the Oklahoma City-based company spun off by Kerr-McGee Corp., will continue to make chemicals and employ 100 workers at an affiliated company’s Henderson plant, despite filing for bankruptcy protection in New York on Monday.
UNLV economics professor Alan Schlottmann isn’t optimistic about the prospects of Las Vegas’ economy rebounding anytime this year.