Terry Unruh struck out seven over five innings and had two hits to lead Faith Lutheran’s baseball team to a 13-3 win over visiting Moapa Valley in the first game of a best-of-3 Class 3A Southern League playoff series.
After his team was retired in order in the bottom of the first inning Friday, Green Valley baseball coach Nick Garritano worried the door might have been left open for an emotional Las Vegas squad.
Wherever Wayman Tisdale went, whatever he was doing, chances were he was smiling.
Fabio Castro pitched eight shutout innings Friday to lead the 51s to an 8-1 Pacific Coast League win over the Memphis Redbirds at AutoZone Park in Memphis, Tenn.
Nevada Sen. John Ensign said Friday that he sees no need to close the controversial prison at Guantanamo Bay until the war on terror ends, but he acknowledged the detention center had damaged the U.S. image abroad.
Clark County’s redevelopment program is expected to be suspended Tuesday so its $11 million in yearly tax money can be spent on schools, police and other services, including $5.1 million for the county itself.
Las Vegan Lindsey Riley says she’s never seen a job market this bad.
RENO — An insurance company has agreed to let a Reno hospital treat a 5-year-old girl with leukemia rather than force her to travel to Oakland, Calif., for chemotherapy.
A last-ditch effort to change the date of municipal elections (and save $1 million of taxpayers’ money every other year) went phooey in the Assembly Elections Committee on Tuesday.
Three judges will give up a court schedule that Clark County leaders said would cost taxpayers $545,000 yearly during a growing budget crisis.
CARSON CITY — Local government officials complained Friday about legislative “tax grab” plans that target them to help close a $1.1 billion gap in Nevada’s budget for the next two fiscal years.
CARSON CITY — Same- and opposite-sex couples could secure domestic partnership contracts giving them the same rights and responsibilities as heterosexual married couples under a bill that received overwhelming support Friday in the Assembly.
School attendance officers chase after truant kids, knock on strange doors and help police bust house parties.
The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat watch for Sunday as temperatures are expected to soar into the triple-digits.
To people who don’t follow Henderson politics, the choice for mayor might look a little like a race between What’s-his-name and That-other-guy.
No matter who wins the race for mayor, Henderson is guaranteed to wind up with an empty seat on its City Council.
CARSON CITY — The Assembly voted 34-5 Friday for a bill to let Washoe County commissioners enact a voter-approved motor fuel tax increase.
CARSON CITY — A plan to roll back a voter-approved ban on smoking in many public places, sought by Nevada bars, restaurants and casinos but opposed by public health advocates, died Friday without an Assembly committee vote needed to keep it alive.
Green Valley High School’s student newspaper, led by a first-time adviser, continued its winning ways Friday when it received top honors for the sixth straight year at the 33rd annual Las Vegas Review-Journal High School Journalism Awards.
A landscaper who died while trimming a palm tree last month was killed by methamphetamine in his system — not from suffocation, as first believed, the Clark County coroner’s office determined.
“Sin City,” the Flying Burrito Brothers song featured in a Thursday Neon story, was written by Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman. Additional authors were incorrectly cited in the original story.
Sarah Todora, who went from the brink of homelessness to Las Vegas headliner and back to the mean streets, is making a comeback.
Hundreds of law enforcement officers, family and friends paid their respects Friday to Las Vegas police officer James Manor, who was killed in a collision on May 7. Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie lauded Manor, who was two weeks shy of his second anniversary on the force, as a “fine young officer,” a “cop’s cop.”
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