Chris Sheff doesn’t normally use his starting pitchers on three days’ rest, but the Bishop Gorman baseball coach didn’t have much of a choice Tuesday.
When Matt Kemp was with the 51s a couple of years ago, the team’s hitting coach, Mike Easler, was in awe of the young player’s potential.
After a scoreless first period in Tuesday’s Game 6 at the Orleans Arena, an irate Wranglers coach Glen Gulutzan questioned his team’s desire to extend the series.
Five months ago, authorities exhumed the body of a 14-month-old girl who they believe died of injuries inflicted by her baby sitter a dozen years ago.
This week readers want to know when is the horror on Martin Luther King Boulevard going to end, and why is Las Vegas Boulevard, near Planet Hollywood, reduced to one lane at night. And the Road Warrior learns that flying cars could be a reality sooner than we think.
CARSON CITY — On a party line vote, the Assembly backed a bill Tuesday that would lead to the candidate who receives the most votes nationwide always winning the presidential election.
BOSTON — A U.S. Marine pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he had bomb- making materials, a gun and ammunition in his baggage at a Boston airport.
CARSON CITY — In a surprising bipartisan vote, the Assembly decided 39-2 Tuesday to require insurance companies to provide screening and medical treatment for autistic children.
The man arrested last week in what authorities suspect was a DUI-related crash that led to the death of an 18-year-old UNLV student was identified Tuesday as Vladimir Lagarev.
CARSON CITY — On a 12-9 vote Tuesday night, the state Senate passed a bill to allow domestic partners, gay and straight, most of the same rights as married couples.
“There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
Henry Hill sounded like a man ready to make a confession.
A 21-year-old man who took part in a 2006 fatal drive-by was sentenced Tuesday in District Court to 25 years behind bars with the possibility of parole after 10 years.
WASHINGTON — As the spotlight grew more intense on federal Judge Jay Bybee, at least one senator stepped forward Tuesday to defend the Las Vegan and the opinion he signed that provided a legal green light for rough interrogations of terrorism suspects.
Earth Day is officially recognized today in keeping with the tradition set by its founder, Gaylord Nelson on April 22, 1970, but events to mark the occasion will be held Saturday at Springs Preserve and Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
A pregnant North Las Vegas woman and two of her sons died Monday in a single-vehicle rollover in Utah.
Word that Criss Angel‘s promotional wrap was being removed from the face of the Luxor set off a media scramble Tuesday.
A revised labor contract will go into effect in July that will reduce Clark County employees’ yearly pay raises as a budget crunch looms.
CARSON CITY — A joint Senate-Assembly budget panel decided Tuesday to add back nearly 400 slots for elderly Nevadans who qualify for government-funded home care and community programs, rejecting recommendations from Gov. Jim Gibbons to reduce the openings.
WASHINGTON — Southern Nevada authorities are seeking to make greater use of thousands of front line-resort workers such as valets and housekeepers to tip off police to shady behavior and possible criminal and terrorist activity, Congress was told on Tuesday.
Over the next two weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider a series of cases that could confirm or sharply narrow the government’s use of race-based policies to supposedly promote “equal treatment before the law.”
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At the end of 2006, Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. The law aims to curb online gambling by prohibiting financial institutions from accepting payments from credit cards, checks or electronic fund transfers to settle online wagers.