It seems as though it should be a slow weekend for motor sports because we’re a week from two Memorial Day weekend classics.
David Wells will mark the 11th anniversary of the perfect game he pitched for the New York Yankees against the Minnesota Twins in a most unusual place:
Shadow Ridge and Sierra Vista had combined to win 40 of 42 matches heading into the Sunset Region boys volleyball semifinals Thursday.
Under normal circumstances, Jody Garaventa would have had little chance of beating Kevin Dumont in a golf tournament.
You can sugarcoat certain things in life. How you answer that question from your significant other about her weight. Cheering your child’s few perfect notes among all the missed ones at the piano recital. Faking confidence when telling your employees about the company’s financial stability.
The Las Vegas High softball team was one out from elimination Thursday when freshman Tiffani Taylor stepped to the plate.
There are two chances of seeing a bid for the Triple Crown this year: slim and none. No one I know picked Mine That Bird to win the Kentucky Derby, and only a couple of redboarders after the race insist they liked him.
Bill Dexheimer figured the best way to slow the potent Bishop Gorman lineup was with a steady diet of off-speed pitches. So on Thursday, the Legacy baseball coach turned to junior Adam Thompson, who has the best changeup on the Longhorns’ staff.
Facing elimination in the first two rounds of the playoffs brought out the best in the Wranglers, who rolled to Game 7 wins over Bakersfield and Stockton.
Coronado freshman golfer A.J. McInerney asserts he is never daunted going up against older competitors.
Lynzee Freund tossed a three-hitter to help Lake Mead’s softball team to an 18-0 victory over Indian Springs in the first round of the Class 1A Southern Region tournament Thursday at Alamo.
CARSON CITY — The Public Employees Retirement System bases its investment decisions on securing the best financial return for its members and cannot stop investing in companies doing business with Iranian oil firms, legislators were told Thursday.
Hundreds of law enforcement officers, family and friends showed up at the International Church of Las Vegas this morning to pay their respects to Las Vegas police officer James Manor, killed in a collision on May 7.
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Shecky Greene returns this weekend to Las Vegas for three shows at the Suncoast, and if they’re not already sold out they should be.
CARSON CITY — A construction defect bill sought by Nevada’s powerful but struggling construction industry and a measure to loosen caps on medical malpractice awards have died in key legislative committees.
CARSON CITY — The Assembly Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance a stripped-down version of a bill that would have allowed authorities to conduct secret searches on electronic communications and seize funds on prepaid debit cards without a warrant.
The Clark County School District has identified two more schools in the Las Vegas Valley as having students with the swine flu, bringing the total number of schools to seven.
Jim Marsh was laughing Thursday morning as he discussed the announcement that Chrysler LLC intended to cancel his Chrysler Jeep dealership’s franchise.
A 49-year-old grocery checker won a $2.8 million judgment against Carmine’s Little Italy after she sued the Las Vegas restaurant where she slipped and injured her back.
Suspended Las Vegas lawyer Jeanne Winkler is in trouble again with the State Bar of Nevada.
CARSON CITY — A decision on whether to set up procedures for authorizing toll roads in Nevada won’t come until just before a deadline today when the bill must pass, or it automatically dies for the remainder of the 2009 Legislature.
The higher education system’s Board of Regents could have raised tuition Thursday, but it did not.
Summer, as it is traditionally defined, begins on the summer solstice, the date on which the sun reaches its northernmost point in the sky during our Earth’s annual journey around the sun.
“Sin City,” a Flying Burrito Brothers song picked as No. 9 in Thursday’s list of Top 10 Las Vegas-themed tunes, was written about Los Angeles. The list appeared on 1E in Neon Thursday.
Celine Dion’s husband, Rene Angelil, has undergone a heart-related medical procedure, Dion’s publicist confirmed Thursday.