The Wranglers relied on home-ice advantage to help stave off elimination twice in their first-round playoff series against Bakersfield, winning Games 6 and 7 at the Orleans Arena to erase a 3-2 deficit.
There are plenty of reasons why left-hander David Purcey started the season in the Toronto Blue Jays’ rotation, and he showed some of them Sunday.
There was a time the past few decades when you might have thought of him as Waldo, the character in a children’s book series hidden among hundreds of tiny people doing various things. But he was rarely lost. Not like before anyway. Not like the two years he spent in hell.
If Floyd Mayweather Jr. wants to fight Manny Pacquiao, he’ll have to wait.
M.K. Kanke was missing a right-front fender at the end of the Blackjack 121, but his experience was more than enough to compensate for body damage when he rallied to win the featured stock-car race Sunday afternoon at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring.
There are those who believe things happen for a reason. Fate, they call it.
When Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer looks at Nevada’s Governor’s Mansion, he practically licks his chops.
A teenage boy was fatally shot during a birthday gathering at an apartment complex near Nellis Boulevard and Sahara Avenue early Sunday, Las Vegas police said.
NEW YORK — The tally of confirmed swine flu cases in the United States jumped Sunday to 245 in 35 states, but officials said that increase is largely from catching up on a backlog of lab tests rather than a sudden spurt in new infections.
ELKO — A judge has ordered opponents of Barrick Gold of North America’s gold mine project at a Northern Nevada mountain to list Western Shoshone tribal members who have visited the site for religious purposes.
MEXICO CITY — The swine flu epidemic spread deeper into the United States, Europe and Latin America even as Mexico’s health chief hinted Sunday that it might soon be time to reopen businesses and schools in the nation where the outbreak probably began.
Bret “Cowboy” Brennan, seen above, sits in an easy chair in the Las Vegas home Gail Sacco and her husband, Joseph Sacco, bought to house homeless people. Brennan, who has throat cancer, spent 15 years on the street before moving into the home. Sacco, an homeless activist, said she no longer believes giving edible handouts is the wisest way to help the homeless.
The falling water level has chased marinas from their shrinking harbors and left boat ramps high and dry. Now the drought has spawned an unexpected new problem at Lake Mead: rapids.
Hundreds of Las Vegans stand in an echoey convention hall — giddy, expectant and anxious — hoping to be picked as contestants during auditions for “Wheel of Fortune,” the game show that shoots in Vegas for four weeks this summer.
In a deadly shootout in October in Tijuana between Mexican soldiers and drug cartel suspects, out of 14 guns seized, five had been purchased in Las Vegas. One soldier and four suspects died in the drug raid.
ZEPHYR COVE — More than a year after a final order banning rock climbing on it was imposed, crews have begun to remove hundreds of bolts from a prominent rock formation at Lake Tahoe.
TRUCKEE, Calif. — A wolverine spotted two straight winters in the northern Sierra Nevada most likely came from Idaho, according to a study.
Spanish prosecutors soon will indict six former members of the Bush administration including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, reports ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper, citing Scott Horton at the blog “Daily Beast.”
Monday would have been Jared Anthony Flemming’s 15th birthday. But Jared, described by one friend as “the kind of kid nobody could hate,” was killed before he got the chance to celebrate.
The teen was gunned down early Sunday morning during a birthday gathering at his adult sister’s apartment complex near Nellis Boulevard and Sahara Avenue. He was shot in the back by at least one reputed gang member who brandished a gun, Las Vegas police said.