Las Vegas native Kyle Busch drove from the back of the field today to win the NASCAR Shelby 427 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It was Busch’s first win at Las Vegas in six career Cup starts.
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RENO — Armon Johnson scored 28 points and Luke Babbitt 21 as UNR opened a 23-point lead in the first half Saturday and beat Utah State 84-71 in a Western Athletic Conference game.
Matt Kenseth could leave Las Vegas today with a milestone never accomplished in 61 years of NASCAR racing.
This past week was the 20th anniversary of Jerry Jones‘ purchase of the Dallas Cowboys.
It didn’t take long for the Agassi Prep boys basketball team to announce its presence in its first season in Class 2A.
Nothing was going to prevent Pahranagat Valley’s girls basketball team from winning the Class 1A state championship Saturday.
During the regular season, Boulder City’s boys basketball record barely qualified as average.
After blowing a double-digit lead and losing to Lincoln County in a girls basketball regional championship game last week, Needles (Calif.) was experiencing a little deja vu in the Class 2A state championship game Saturday at the Orleans Arena.
Henry Namauu’s professional career is just five fights old, but the former UNLV boxer faces a crossroads Friday when he meets Victor Barragan in a six-round heavyweight bout at The Orleans.
Landon Littlefield hasn’t tried to bury the memory of a two-point loss to Trinity in the Class 1A boys basketball state title game two years ago.
Kyle Busch will lead a backward parade of Toyotas during the start of the Shelby 427 Sprint Cup race today at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The telephone was going to ring. T.C. Russell knew it as sure as he knew his name. It was going to ring, and he was going to answer, and life immediately would become more chaotic than the streets of Pamplona with a bunch of bulls running through.
Spring Creek placed four players in double figures as the Spartans rolled to a 69-42 win over Lowry for the Class 3A girls state title at the Orleans Arena on Saturday.
Singing is one of UNLV senior Mareceo Rutledge’s secret talents. He’s not planning an “American Idol” audition and he’s not signing up for any karaoke displays, though.
There’s this segment from the “What Happens Here, Stays Here” ad campaign: A slightly dazed woman says a tender but incredulous goodbye to a younger man she just spontaneously married.
CARSON CITY — Lawmakers start their fifth week of the 2009 session on Monday with a review of the nearly $1.5 billion in federal stimulus funds coming to Nevada and debate on how much it will actually reduce a huge state revenue shortfall.
The trial of Chester Stiles began Monday, and the week ended with jurors watching a 15-minute videotape that authorities say shows Stiles sexually assaulting a 2-year-old girl.
A domestic violence call turned deadly Saturday morning when a man charged with murder in California and a woman were found dead in a home in the northwest valley.
SOME WEDDING CHAPEL OWNERS HAVE HAD IT with the city’s ubiquitous “What Happens Here” campaign. They think the hedonistic message may discourage couples from getting married in Las Vegas.
If Rick Rizzolo dreamed of living happily ever after, he was only kidding himself. He must know that by now.
It’s been almost a decade since Anthony Marnell III worked in a Las Vegas casino. Much has changed during that time. But then again, thanks to the current economic meltdown that has zapped consumer spending and sent gaming revenues spiraling downward, some aspects of the gaming business have reverted to years past.
The one-hour “20/20” special Friday on ABC about the return of Siegfried & Roy will clear up “a lot of the rumors and misconceptions of what Roy can do and can’t do,” the show’s executive producer says.
CARSON CITY — Total spending by Nevada state government actually would increase by $1 billion under the governor’s proposed two-year budget with the infusion of federal stimulus money, according to an analysis by a conservative think tank.