Before this season, his 10th in professional baseball, Buck Coats never had batted leadoff.
Virgin Valley’s baseball team has added more honors to its second straight Class 3A state title.
The United Way is following me, even though I gave at the office. So is UNLV Athletics, but that’s probably just the athletic director’s way of being funny.
Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White has been one of the harshest critics of Kimbo Slice, the street fighter-turned-aspiring professional mixed martial artist.
UNLV’s Lon Kruger realizes he’s in an enviable position by serving as the unofficial host coach of the Mountain West Conference basketball tournament.
Unemployment is on the rise in Nevada, but The Shady Lady Ranch is hiring.
This week, readers want to know if there are plans to build an interchange at Starr Avenue and Interstate 15 in the southern valley, and if the DMV doesn’t ask you to pay a tax, do you still have to pay it? The Road Warrior has a special rant for the express lane project on I-15 on the California side of the border, and a reader knows of at least one optimistic motorist in these troubled economic times.
Before Karen Brill opens her eyes in the morning, she already can feel the tears welling.
A draft of UNLV’s controversial hate crimes and bias incidents policy has been rewritten, taking much of the bite — and the controversy — out of it.
RENO — State environmental regulators have ordered a northeast Nevada gold mine to shut down because it failed to meet a deadline to install equipment to reduce mercury emissions.
On his way to school this morning, Bryce Harper could have stopped at a coffee shop or a magazine stand and seen a picture of himself.
A proposed medical clinic for uninsured patients that has stirred hostile opposition from some neighbors received a go-ahead from Clark County commissioners Tuesday.
CARSON CITY — Larger Nevada businesses paying nearly twice as much in payroll taxes. Typical Nevada families forking over 6.4 percent more in sales taxes and car registration fees.
It wasn’t a clean sweep, but it came pretty close in Mesquite on Tuesday, as two of three incumbents were bounced from the City Council.
In the end, the Las Vegas Monorail couldn’t derail Cam Walker’s campaign for Boulder City Council.
Gov. Jim Gibbons won’t yet be compelled to give a deposition in the lawsuit brought by a former Las Vegas cocktail waitress who accuses him of assaulting her in a parking garage.
A 28-year-old man was arrested earlier this week by Las Vegas police in connection with a slaying of a man shot on Mother’s Day 2005.
Normally Shari Buck would be headed to the beach for a few days of R&R.
The race to replace Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson featured two candidates who looked nearly identical in many respects, so it’s no wonder voters couldn’t seem to make up their minds.
A fitness boot camp whose members were treated like renegades when they exercised at Clark County parks can now sweat from a brisk workout rather than from the fear of getting busted.
CARSON CITY — Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons can claim few victories from the 2009 Legislature but that’s mainly because the process was “poisoned” by the lawmakers’ Democratic leaders, a spokesman for the governor said Tuesday.
In a come-from-behind victory, Las Vegas City Council candidate Stavros Anthony defeated Glenn Trowbridge by a mere 10 votes for the open Ward 4 seat.
MORE ELECTION NEWS:
• 2009 Municipal General Election results
• NORTH LAS VEGAS: Buck claims North Las Vegas mayor’s post
• HENDERSON: Hafen takes to-and-fro Henderson mayor’s race by 45 votes
• BOULDER: Walker wins Boulder City Council seat
• MESQUITE: Two Mesquite incumbents lose council seats
RENO — A lawyer for a Reno newspaper urged the Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday to open some records concerning Gov. Jim Gibbons’ concealed weapons permit, arguing confidentiality provisions extend only to information on an application, not documents or actions after a permit is issued.
Investor’s Business Daily remains a publication bold enough to challenge the trance from which many Americans seem to be watching “Obama-nomics” unfold.