MONTREAL — In a mixed martial arts event with plenty worth noting, UFC 97 probably will be remembered for Chuck Liddell’s fourth loss in five fights and his apparent departure from the sport he helped build from the ground up.
McLain Ward came close to the unimaginable Sunday for the U.S. Show Jumping team.
Two players already have been promoted from the 51s to the Blue Jays this season, and Toronto’s director of player development Dick Scott expects many more to make the jump to the majors this year.
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Dario Franchitti used fuel strategy and a very fast car Sunday to win the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
Let’s get this part out of the way: It’s not the new league or the travel. It is definitely not the weather for a Triple-A baseball franchise that spent more than three decades in Syracuse, which exists under a perpetual shade of dark gray and where locals have been known to define summer as three months of bad sledding.
Jimmy Parker Jr. looked admiringly at his Super Late Models stock car after Saturday night’s feature race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s Bullring — not a scratch on it.
NEW YORK — Exxon Mobil Corp. unseated Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the 2009 Fortune 500 list, shrugging off the oil price bubble and weathering what the magazine called the worst year ever for the country’s largest publicly traded companies.
As part of the process of approving a new locksmith license for Yair Refael, Las Vegas city officials checked out the addresses he provided on his application.
Jeannie Richard’s legal problems began last year after she took out a $250 payday loan and fell behind on her payments.
RENO — A 100-year-old woman from New Jersey has become the oldest competitor in the history of the United States Bowling Congress Women’s Championships.
RENO — University of Nevada, Reno President Milton Glick has criticized the rising salaries of college coaches, saying the trend is troubling at a time when state higher education funds have shrunk.
Not only did Miss North Carolina USA Kristen Dalton win the Miss USA 2009 pageant Sunday.
The Obama administration and the state’s congressional delegation have vowed to financially bleed the decades-old Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project, but doing so probably will cramp Southern Nevada’s already hurting economy.
After decades spent swimming against the current, Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., finds herself in a position she could hardly have imagined a few years ago.
Be good to the Clintons, and they will be good to you. That’s the moral of the Rory Reid story.
State police and security officials said a U.S. Marine was arrested Sunday morning at Boston’s Logan International Airport after screeners found bomb-making materials, a gun and ammunition in his checked baggage.
It’s not easy being a female performer on the Strip. You can’t just be talented. You have to be mostly naked, or impossibly thin, or both. But at least, women wield more power in their sexualized roles.
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to propose regulating greenhouse gas emissions on the grounds that these “pollutants” pose a danger to the public’s health and welfare, The Washington Post reported Friday.
