I don’t care if adults want to risk their lives by driving race cars.
A day in the life of Kobe Bryant can be a hectic experience. The Los Angeles Lakers star is always on the go, whether leading a fast break or zipping through traffic in his $300,000-plus Ferrari.
John Robinson will enter the College Football Hall of Fame for his work as Southern California’s coach.
The Green Valley softball team has been red-hot offensively for the last two weeks. That didn’t change Thursday.
As the stories about Glen Gondrezick flowed, the tears followed. There was plenty of laughter, too, which is how Gondrezick probably would have scripted it.
Desperately in need of a boost, the 51s got a big one from the bat of J.P. Arencibia.
It’s all about Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton this week as the junior welterweight stars prepare to square off in the ring Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden.
When the Hard Rock hotel moved The Joint to a different location on the property, it wasn’t just about an improved concert experience. The hotel-casino also was getting back in the boxing business.
Before Game 3 of the Pacific Division Finals at Stockton (Calif.) Arena on Thursday night, the Wranglers hadn’t lost a playoff game this year by more than one goal.
From 1980 to 1999, the Kentucky Derby favorite lost 20 straight times. In this decade, four favorites have won, including three over the last five years. So the question begs: Who is getting smarter, the handicappers or the horsemen? Both are.
The high-flying, dirt-throwing AMA Supercross riders have ended their season at Sam Boyd Stadium the past 19 years, but on Saturday night there’s a rare addition to the sold-out event: drama.
For the second time in three months, the travel industry is taking umbrage at comments from the administration of President Barack Obama.
Thanks to a Ricky Hatton-led British invasion, the recession is taking a pounding at the Crown & Anchor Pub.
CARSON CITY — On the eve of a critical meeting of the state Economic Forum, Gov. Jim Gibbons said Thursday that he will ask legislators to increase the 6 percent salary reductions he proposed for state employees, teachers and university workers.
“America’s Got Talent” came to Vegas looking for wanna-be-famous people on Wednesday and Thursday.
As always, there’s good news and bad news coming out of the Legislature these days.
Contractors on the $3.1 billion Fontainebleau Las Vegas project are laying off workers because the developer has been denied access to part of the $130 million in financing that was going to be used to fund construction, a spokesman for the resort said Thursday.
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has invited federal Judge Jay Bybee to testify about his role in developing legal memos that set a foundation for harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists during the Bush administration.
A man died of apparent suffocation Thursday evening after several dead palm fronds fell on him while he was trimming a towering palm tree at a home behind the Boulevard Mall.
The general contractor for Harrah’s Las Vegas now has the required building permits, but corporate spokesman Gary Thompson on Thursday did not yet know when halted work will resume in an employee hallway.
In the matter of two ballot measures that supporters want on Las Vegas’ June 2 city elections ballot, it’s time to slow down and think hard, according to a brief filed Thursday by the city.
WASHINGTON — Nevada would be granted 2,085 acres of federal land near Nellis Air Force Base to establish a North Las Vegas campus for UNLV under a bill that was reintroduced Thursday in Congress.
The judge who sentenced former football star O.J. Simpson to prison in Nevada told lawyers for several convicted co-defendants who received probation that their clients remain on the hook for restitution to a victim in the case, a court official said.
Hate crime and bias policies at Nevada’s colleges will be reviewed and could be rewritten after a controversial draft policy at UNLV was lambasted by the system’s chancellor.