ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Ryan Briscoe held off Ryan Hunter-Reay to win the IndyCar Series season opener Sunday.
NORTH BETHESDA, Md. — Four years ago, the Findlay Prep basketball team didn’t exist. Today it sits atop the high school basketball mountain after a 74-66 win Sunday over perennial power Oak Hill Academy in the championship game of the ESPN National High School Invitational Tournament at Georgetown Prep.
DETROIT — There are varying degrees of causes. Some inspire nations. Others motivate small groups. Some change lives. Others alter ideals. Some make you remember. Others help you forget.
Two-time reigning NHRA Pro Stock champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. has experienced many scenarios en route to winning his 43 titles.
Soon, Maureen Knell will cross a threshold. She will cease being a college student and become a respected adult.
He once sang of dropping heavy munitions on the Taliban, but Toby Keith came armed with an arsenal of F-bombs of his own at the 44th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday at the MGM Grand.
RENO — Driver fatigue is a possible cause of a deadly crash of a resort’s shuttle bus in California’s Sierra Nevada, authorities said Sunday.
In downtown Las Vegas’ “homeless corridor,” tension is growing between one group that hands out food to the homeless and another that offers programs so that the homeless eventually can get off the street.
If everything goes according to script, senior forward Tyler Hansbrough will cap his record-setting career by leading North Carolina to the NCAA championship tonight.
An automated call accusing state Sen. David Parks, D-Las Vegas, of being on the side of “perverts” went out recently to Parks’ constituents.
During a 10-day period in February 2007, Margaret Picus’ two dogs suffered irreversible renal failure, and she had no idea why.
RENO — A group that advocates separation of church and state has decided not to sue a Nevada city over its funding to a church that Mark Twain helped build in his 20s.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers will start the 10th week of their 2009 session today by reviewing a plan stemming from the Hepatitis C outbreak in Southern Nevada that would allow bigger lawsuit awards as a result of negligence by medical professionals.
Legislators, I’m begging you. Pass Assemblyman Tick Segerblom’s bill to move municipal elections from odd to even-numbered years and combine city elections with state and federal elections.
E-mail spam is a curse. But it’s only a new incarnation of a whole set of earlier curses.
