Nonito Donaire said he’s ready to leave the flyweight division, and he’ll get his first taste of life as a 115-pounder next month when he faces Rafael Concepcion at the Hard Rock Hotel.
Joe Inglett went 5-for-6 with a home run and six RBIs Saturday to lead the 51s’ 19-hit attack in their 14-5 Pacific Coast League win over the Fresno Grizzlies in Fresno, Calif.
Count Houston Chronicle columnist Richard Justice among those who think the Rockets got the best of the Ron Artest–Trevor Ariza signings. Artest signed with the Los Angeles Lakers and Ariza with Houston last week.
Brian France has been hanging around the garage too long because the fumes seem to be messing with his senses.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Kyle Busch braced himself for a four-lap “trophy dash” around Daytona International Speedway, intent on snatching a win from Tony Stewart.
Ever wonder about the meaning of the street names in the Las Vegas Valley?
Was Dr. Eladio Carrera the “captain of the ship” in the operating suite where his patients were infected with hepatitis?
State officials are busy searching under their couch cushions these days to come up with enough spare change to keep the AmeriCorps Nevada program alive.
The wife of Las Vegas headliner Terry Fator filed for divorce in February, Fator acknowledged Saturday.
CARSON CITY — The current economic doldrums are the worst Nevada has faced since 1935, according to former state Archivist Guy Rocha.
Once branded as “human cockfighting” by Sen. John McCain, the Ultimate Fighting Championship has become mainstream in a little more than a decade.
The organization once was banished from pay-per-view TV, but now is available in more than 500,000,000 households worldwide. From a successful reality show on Spike TV to record-breaking pay-per-view numbers, the UFC has arrived as it nears its historic UFC 100 card Saturday at the Mandalay Bay.
UFC 100 Interactive timeline, video and more
Clark County Fire Department employees routinely received extra pay, in the years immediately preceding their retirement, that will substantially increase their retirement pay, the Review-Journal discovered in an analysis of department payroll records.
FERNLEY — A new grand marshal led Fernley’s annual Fourth of July parade after organizers’ first choice withdrew because he could not prove he had received a top military medal.
It began mostly as a matter of convenience for a few thousand Southern Nevada residents who wanted to be closer to their county seat. A century later, Clark County is the bright, loud engine of the Silver State, with nearly 72 percent of its population and a similar share of its economy.
The conventional wisdom is that Republican primary voters are more conservative than the general public and, therefore, Gov. Jim Gibbons is likely to win renomination for a second term due to his veto of all those tax hikes at the end of this year’s Legislature.
The “fate of White House and congressional efforts to overhaul the nation’s health care system is likely to depend on the price tag, but there’s no precise, reliable way to estimate the cost,” McClatchy Newspapers reported this week.
A recent column on the euphemisms used by proponents of illegal-immigrant amnesty brought some irate buzzing from all seven members of the Young Anarchists’ League.
Watching local governments try to go “on the wagon” and stop spending increasingly scarce tax dollars during tough economic times can be like watching a family member try to “go cold turkey” on his or her own drug of choice.
This is a time of serious economic recession in Nevada. Out of every 100 workers in the Silver State, 11.3 are currently unemployed. Yet, the federal government appears to think that is not enough and is driving for a change that will wind up putting even more people out of work.
The news about the news media is bleak. I’m not sure which is spiraling downward faster, the media or the talk about what to do about the media. Actually, the latter seems to be just going around in circles, covering the same topics.
President Obama could go two ways on health care. Let’s consider his options.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
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Woman arrested after police say she climbed on Reno craps table, threw chips at people
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Asian grocery store looks to add new location near Summerlin