Brandon Beals looks like every other Ultimate Fighting Championship fan walking around Mandalay Bay three days before the mixed martial arts outfit’s historic Saturday night card.
At the recent Hospitality Design Show, I revisited a product I hadn’t thought about in years. But very much alive and well and showing off for hospitality designers was, drum roll, Naugahyde.
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Charles Barkley‘s golf game is not very hot, but his popularity rages around Lake Tahoe.
Kevin Howard hit a tiebreaking RBI double and Aaron Mathews added a two-run single as the 51s rallied with two outs to defeat the host Reno Aces 12-9 in 10 innings Wednesday in the Pacific Coast League.
Just as the argument is heating up over whether Nevada should legalize rifle scopes for use during muzzleloader-only hunting seasons, the company that turned the muzzleloading world upside-down with its Knight Rifle has closed its doors.
• LAKE MEAD — Windy conditions have made fishing difficult. Boils are still showing up at Boulder Beach, but anglers are having little success.
A few weeks ago, Ultimate Fighting Championship commentator Joe Rogan was doing standup comedy in San Jose, Calif., when two groups of acquaintances showed up and hung out together: friends who never fight; and a group of guys from the American Kickboxing Academy, including Jon Fitch and Mike Swick — “two of the toughest guys in the world.”
Brock Lesnar thinks he has come a long way as a fighter since suffering the only defeat of his brief professional mixed martial arts career to Frank Mir in February 2008. … He will have his chance to prove it Saturday night when the two meet for the undisputed Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight title in the main event of UFC 100 at Mandalay Bay.
Even before it has any players or has announced its stadiums and schedule, the new United Football League has some rules.
When the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas was started in 2004, its founder had no delusions of grandeur.
Sales of single-family homes, condos and townhomes reached a record 4,702 in June, topping the previous record of 4,414 set in June 2004, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Wednesday.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — A 10-year prison term was imposed Wednesday for a 62-year-old Arizona man who was convicted in the August 2008 death of his roommate in Golden Shores.
A judge issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday blocking the planned Mob Museum project from going forward and set a Friday hearing to consider a lawsuit saying the city of Las Vegas awarded the bid to an unqualified contractor.
Midway through a nine-month extramarital affair with a member of his campaign staff, Sen. John Ensign wrote his lover a letter saying they had committed a “sin” and “God never intended for us to do this.”
Sonia Sotomayor deserves to be confirmed as the next U.S. Supreme Court justice, the judge’s supporters said Wednesday in Las Vegas.
Clark County has too few public defenders to adequately represent indigent defendants accused of crimes, according to a report released Wednesday.
Cyclists have won another victory for their safety on state Route 159.
The old saw “you can’t fight city hall” landed in the trash heap Tuesday when the moving comments of eight people made a difference.
• The restaurant affiliation for chef Carlos Guia and the location of a photo that appeared in the Wednesday Taste section were incorrect. Guia is executive chef at The Country Club at Wynn Las Vegas, where the photograph was taken.
CARSON CITY — A Las Vegas man won a courtroom battle Wednesday with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles over his “HOE” license plate, which the agency refused to renew on grounds that he was using a slang reference to prostitutes.