Home ice hasn’t been a reliable advantage for the Wranglers or Bakersfield Condors during their ECHL first-round playoff series, with both teams winning once on the road.
Frustrated with failed comeback attempts from shoulder surgery, 51s pitcher Wade Miller decided to take a break from baseball last year, sitting out the entire season.
When the New York Mets officially opened Citi Field on April 13, many fans complained about the lack of Mets history in the new ballpark.
Ali Bodnar and confidence haven’t exactly gone hand in hand for much of this softball season.
Byron Spencer, 17, remembers getting an eighth-grade report card three years ago that was “full of Fs.”… Spencer wasn’t alone. Only 17 percent of his West Middle School class could read and perform math at grade level. … Things have changed since then.
WASHINGTON — Days after releasing top-secret memos that detailed the CIA’s use of simulated drowning while interrogating terror suspects, President Barack Obama went to the spy agency’s Virginia headquarters Monday to defend his decision and bolster the morale of its employees.
From the department of “duh” come the latest federal figures that tell us the economy has tanked: Far fewer people can afford college without help.
Lawyers for Boyd Gaming Corp. and two of its employees argued Monday for the dismissal of a lawsuit stemming from the February 2007 deaths of two workers in a sewer pipe at The Orleans.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, on Monday called for the impeachment of Las Vegas federal judge Jay Bybee, one of the authors of “torture memos” written by senior Justice Department lawyers during the Bush administration.
The man charged with trying to put hits on a judge, prosecutor and cop took the witness stand Monday and denied any involvement in the alleged plot.
BOSTON — A man was arrested Monday in the shooting death last week at a luxury hotel of a woman who advertised massage services on Craigslist, Boston’s police commissioner said.
A proposed open-pit mine where crews would blast the earth, crush rocks and kick up dust for decades drew almost 400 outraged residents to a forum Monday. … Most hailed from Sun City Anthem, several miles from where two companies want to scoop out sand, gravel and decorative rock at a 640-acre site east of Interstate 15. Most wore T-shirts that read: “Stop the Sloan Hills gravel pit.”
Las Vegas Sun reporter Alexandra Berzon and her editors said Monday that they think the Pulitzer Prize-winning stories they produced about construction safety brought an end to a spate of worker deaths at resort projects on the Strip.
Snoop Dogg was immortalized as a wax figure at Madam Tussauds on Monday. Why Snoop? He was the most-requested celebrity waxee, so says The Venetian museum.
CARSON CITY — The vivid dancer damselfly quickly won approval Monday from the Assembly Government Affairs Committee as it continues on its flight to become Nevada’s state insect.
The Transportation Security Administration is retracing the steps of a passenger who departed McCarran International Airport on Saturday with luggage that included explosives, weapons and ammunition.
A suspicious package found Monday morning at a busy Summerlin intersection turned out to be a suitcase with a dead dog inside, Las Vegas police said.
CARSON CITY — All seven Supreme Court justices questioned Monday whether the state Ethics Commission is legally entitled to discipline legislators.
CARSON CITY — A bill written to allow Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak victims to seek unlimited damages in “pain and suffering” medical malpractice claims cleared its first major legislative hurdle Monday.
CARSON CITY — Nevada legislators voted Monday for about 80 measures, on subjects ranging from identity theft to sex traffickers, in efforts to meet another deadline and keep the bills from ending up on the 2009 session’s scrap heap.
The smoking ban did not hurt business in Southern Nevada, a study released Monday by UNLV researchers concluded.
The most prestigious awards in print journalism were announced Monday, and for just the second time a Nevada broadsheet was among the recipients.
