DOVER, Del. — Jimmie Johnson went from running away from the field to running down Tony Stewart.
It was with relative ease that Dwight Howard helped the Orlando Magic make Le-Bron James disappear from the postseason.
DETROIT — The Red Wings are tired, beat up, and just two wins away from hoisting the Stanley Cup again.
The 51s allowed four runs in the bottom of the eighth inning and failed to get any offense, losing to the Sacramento River Cats in Pacific Coast League play in West Sacramento, Calif.
CARSON CITY — A bill changing rules for qualifying questions for the ballot won state Senate approval Sunday despite arguments by a lawmaker who said it was improved but still could interfere with Nevadans’ constitutional rights.
CARSON CITY — Look ahead from this legislative session to the next, and you see a gaping abyss.
CARSON CITY — Only a handful of spectators watched Sunday night as the Assembly voted 28-14 to override Gov. Jim Gibbons’ veto of a bill that establishes a domestic partnership law in Nevada. That vote, with the Senate’s 14-7 rejection of the veto Saturday, makes Senate Bill 283 a law that takes effect on Oct. 1.
Slide show of legislative session
KINGMAN, Ariz. — The body of an El Monte, Calif., man who drowned at Lake Mohave on Memorial Day was recovered Saturday. The National Park Service said John Silva, 42, slipped under the surface of the lake while swimming.
CARSON CITY — The state Senate finished passing the budget through the Legislature over the objections of Gov. Jim Gibbons and made Gibbons the most overridden governor in Nevada history on Sunday.
CARSON CITY — Gambling and tourism industry lobbyists succeeded Sunday in 11th-hour efforts to get the Nevada Assembly to endorse a partial rollback of a voter-approved ban on smoking in public places.
The question starts out like a light bulb joke, but it’s no laughing matter to Henderson retiree Al Gualtier: How many light bulbs will it take before someone suffers a serious indoor fall at the Luxor, where Gualtier worked until mid-2008?
The state Senate on Sunday passed a bill that would give limited collective bargaining rights to state workers.
RENO — Nevadans’ credit scores dipped as the state’s economy tanked during the housing industry meltdown, according to a credit reporting bureau.
Early voting ended Friday with a whimper, with a mere 7.6 percent of Clark County’s eligible registered voters casting ballots.
Do you dream of living to 100? Or is the thought of creaking into old age repugnant?
It was 1971, and Tommy DeVito was cleaning houses for a living. One low day, he was scrubbing the country club house of a big shot’s wife, when it leaked out in conversation Tommy had been the guitar player in the Four Seasons.
Opponents of a proposed pipeline to tap groundwater across eastern Nevada now have one more way to fight the project: Pray for the drought to end on the Colorado River.
The producers of Bravo’s “Top Chef” added a dash of cloak-and-dagger to the mix during their 51/2 weeks of on-location filming.
Perhaps one of the worst pieces of legislation in recent memory has inexplicably sailed through both the state Senate and the Assembly and now awaits the governor’s signature.
The Nevada Legislature early this morning was set to conclude its biennial session with little drama, having finished its major piece of business — the budget — a week and a half ahead of time. The Assembly adjourned at 11:56 p.m. Monday, with the Senate set to adjourn shortly after midnight.
Legislators spent the last day of the 120-day session debating and passing a last set of bills, some of them over the veto of Gov. Jim Gibbons, who set a new mark this year by vetoing more bills, and having more vetoes overridden, than any governor in state history.
Legislators spent the last day of the 120-day session debating and passing a last set of bills, some of them over the veto of Gov. Jim Gibbons, who set a new mark this year by vetoing more bills, and having more vetoes overridden, than any governor in state history.
The guy who brought the world “Bad Motor Scooter” is now motivated by grander forms of transportation.
Sammy Hagar, former Van Halen rock band member and the artist behind “I Can’t Drive 55,” is opening a restaurant at McCarran International Airport.