The Reno bullpen finished off the 51s on Tuesday after a solid start by Tony Barnette as the host Aces scored a 4-2 Pacific Coast League victory.
The Wranglers have for six years been a cruise ship gliding around the Caribbean, directed by people with a deep affection for the organization and a profound enthusiasm for producing a stellar product.
Toughness is one of Jim Calhoun’s most obvious traits. The Connecticut basketball coach often butts heads with the media and other assorted critics, never shying away from confrontation.
Glen Gulutzan, the only coach in the six-year history of the ECHL’s Las Vegas Wranglers, left the team Tuesday to become head coach of the expansion Texas Stars of the American Hockey League. The franchise, located in Austin, will be the AHL affiliate of the Dallas Stars.
Tiger Woods is the 7-4 favorite to win the U.S. Open, which begins Thursday at Bethpage State Park’s Black course in New York, where Woods was the winner in 2002.
RENO — The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association still has plans to realign its classes. It just won’t happen for the 2009-10 school year.
RENO — High school girls soccer again will be played in the winter in the South’s Class 4A leagues next school year, and the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association reluctantly decided to continue to recognize two state champions.
CARSON CITY — William Burks, a brigadier general in the Nevada National Guard, was named the state’s adjutant general Tuesday by Gov. Jim Gibbons.
Calling it “absolutely the worst thing that I’ve ever done in my life,” U.S. Sen. John Ensign admitted Tuesday that he had an affair with a campaign staffer last year.
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CNN talk-show host Larry King headlines as a humorist at Wynn Las Vegas on Friday.
A man wanted in connection with the February slaying of a 28-year-old man was picked up by border patrol officers in San Diego and faces extradition back to Southern Nevada for the homicide, Las Vegas police said Tuesday.
A judge on Tuesday lowered the bail for Vladimir Lagerev, charged with killing a UNLV student in an April crash that occurred when Lagerev was drunk and driving in the wrong direction on a freeway onramp.
A California woman is pursuing a lawsuit on behalf of her daughter, who was shot and killed by police in 2007 after a disturbance complaint at a fast-food restaurant, according to federal court records.
Law enforcement officials in Las Vegas and Nye County expressed concern Tuesday that a man arrested earlier this week in connection with the 1994 sexual assault and homicide of a 7-year-old girl might have had other victims.
Las Vegas City Council members today will consider a half-percentage point pay increase for a small group of city employees to make up for an increase in the required contribution to the Public Employees Retirement System.
Clark County on Tuesday patched up the budget wounds inflicted by the state’s $125 million revenue grab over two years, though officials said they expect lingering pain well into the future.
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CARSON CITY — Despite a slight increase approved by lawmakers in the state’s base per-pupil spending for kindergarten through 12th grade students, Nevada’s public education chief said Tuesday that school districts actually will have less money per pupil for the upcoming fiscal year.
CARSON CITY — Lawyers and residents warned the Supreme Court on Tuesday that banks and mortgage loan companies might try to circumvent a new state law designed to reduce the number of foreclosures in Nevada.
State Sen. Warren Hardy, R-Las Vegas, resigned from the Legislature on Tuesday in order to focus on lobbying for the builders association he works for.
A routine renewal of a longtime lobbyist’s contracts turned into a heated discussion among Clark County commissioners about how those who are paid handsomely to promote the county are seldom scrutinized.
A man accused of tying up his girlfriend’s children while he watched an NBA basketball game at a bar must post $400,000 bail to be set free.
Jim Rogers promised that he would not go away quietly, and he proved it Tuesday. In one of his last acts before retiring as the state’s higher education chancellor, Rogers declared that UNLV’s president, David Ashley, should be fired.
The owners of a Las Vegas company accused of importing tainted pet food ingredients that killed an estimated 1,950 cats and 2,200 dogs around the country pleaded guilty Tuesday under an agreement calling for three years of probation and fines.