NEWTON, Iowa — Dario Franchitti was disappointed that Saturday’s qualifying for the Iowa Corn Indy 250 was canceled. He thought a few late tweaks made to his No. 10 car had turned it into a “rocket ship.”
The 51s started Sunday with a 21-1 record this season when leading after eight innings.
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Ricky Barnes flashed a smile as big as his six-shot lead.
A Las Vegas police officer was hospitalized early Sunday morning with non-life threatening injuries after crashing a patrol vehicle with another car, Las Vegas police said.
Elaine Wynn had the best seat in the house at Warren Buffett‘s Netjets gala on Saturday.
An explosion of color will soon burst onto the Lake Tahoe landscape. Botanists are hoping several weeks of unusually cool, wet spring weather will make for a banner wildflower season in the Sierra Nevada.
VIRGINIA CITY — Two Irish pick-and-shovel prospectors named Peter O’Riley and Patrick McLaughlin were digging into a water seep in a canyon near Virginia City on a sunny day in June 1859 when they happened upon shiny flakes of gold.
CARSON CITY — For members of the Spending and Government Efficiency Commission, the 2009 Legislature was a mixed bag.
Las Vegas resident Jim Hagen, unemployed and deep in debt, has gone where maybe no Star Trek fan has gone before. He recently used a Star Trek jacket in lieu of a credit card for a security deposit on an usher’s jacket that he rented for a job interview at the Venetian. He hasn’t heard back from them — or anyone else in his job hunt — yet but remains hopeful.
Athletes at the Andre Agassi Prep Academy have sold candy and doughnuts to raise money for their teams.
One of the last acts of term-limited Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson was a vote allocating $21 million for a new space and science museum, depleting a big chunk of the city’s $25 million land fund for capital improvements.
Remember the huge controversy brewed by congressional Democrats when president George W. Bush’s Justice Department dismissed seven U.S. attorneys on Dec. 7, 2006?
Speculation over when MGM Mirage might dump some of its properties in order to reduce its daunting, $14 billion debt continues to reverberate through the gaming community.
About $450 million of municipal bonds that helped finance the Las Vegas Monorail had their credit rating cut to C from CC by Fitch Ratings, implying that “default of some kind appears imminent or inevitable.”