Las Vegas left-hander Fabio Castro started this season in dominant fashion, compiling a 2-0 mark with a 0.83 ERA in April for Double-A New Hampshire and a 24 1/3-inning scoreless streak in May for the 51s.
Top Rank chairman Bob Arum announced Monday that everything is set for Manny Pacquiao, considered boxing’s best pound-for-pound fighter, to face WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto on Nov. 14 at the MGM Grand Garden. The nontitle fight, scheduled for 12 rounds, will be contested at a catch weight of 145 pounds.
Dan Henderson’s victory over Rich Franklin in January was anything but decisive.
The Republican National Committee began airing television ads in Nevada and two other states on Monday attacking President Barack Obama’s plans for health care reform.
Ominous clouds hovered over the Las Vegas Valley on Monday, drenching Mount Charleston before unleashing a downpour on urban Clark County, according to the National Weather Service.
• A story in Monday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal should have said a mass-kissing protest near a Mormon church temple took place in Salt Lake City.
The first news is bad news at Super Summer Theatre/Stage Door Entertainment’s “West Side Story.” The eight-member Nancy Westside Band lets out a blast of a Leonard Bernstein prologue from which the production never recovers. The music so overwhelms the vocals that you sometimes wonder if this was meant to be a concert.
The government watchdog group that is calling for a criminal investigation into payments made to U.S. Sen. John Ensign’s former mistress accused the Department of Justice on Monday of shying away from a case that could be a political hot potato.
A 78-year-old man from Arizona died Monday after his vehicle was struck by a driver who ran a red light near East Sahara Avenue and Commercial Center, Las Vegas police said.
It must have seemed so simple a few years ago when rising real estate prices were outpaced only by investor confidence in booming Southern Nevada.
West Virginia native Mike Hamrick came to Las Vegas for his first full-time job in 1981 in the marketing department at UNLV.
It’s likely that only die-hard theater buffs will know this one, so I hope you’ll trust me: Las Vegas Little Theatre’s “The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee” is a light, moving, poignant, funny and superbly acted and sung evening that seems just right for summer.
GLIDE, Ore. — The body of a missing fly fisherman from Las Vegas has been recovered from the North Umpqua River.
A commission examining judicial reform recommended Monday that Nevada judges should be disqualified from cases if parties appearing before them arranged for the contribution of $50,000 or more toward their campaigns.
A man accused of killing three people during a 2006 Las Vegas crime spree was convicted of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon and other charges Monday.
Las Vegas is known as a great place to play, if you’re over 21. … But for the second year in a row, a community just to the southeast has been recognized as a great place to play for kids.
Gloria Brown’s post office box number has become an anchor in her life over the past 25 years.
The three medical clinics at the center of last year’s hepatitis outbreak filed for bankruptcy Friday, a move that threatens to delay the first civil trial involving a patient infected with hepatitis C. The Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada, Gastroenterology Center of Nevada, and Desert Shadow Endoscopy Center all filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which calls for liquidation of any corporate assets.
The Southern Nevada Health District has genetically linked nine cases of hepatitis C to unsafe injection practices at the endoscopy centers. Another 105 cases are possibly related.
Gov. Jim Gibbons is again seeking a protective order preventing his telephone, financial and other records from being released publicly.
During a special meeting on July 8, members of the Henderson City Council voted unanimously to appoint UNLV administrator and former Henderson planning commissioner Debra March to the Ward 2 seat left vacant when longtime councilman Andy Hafen was recently elected mayor.
Consolidated Resorts, a Las Vegas time-share company that filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, was forced to close when a key creditor cut off a $250 million line of credit, bankruptcy attorney Lenard Schwartzer said.
People who shelled out $15 to check a first bag with two major airlines may see some relief.
PHOENIX — Each time Lance and Kelli Thorson thought they had found their first home, someone would outbid them. It’s already happened at least 15 times.
More than five years after taking over the casino employee registration program from local law enforcement, state gaming regulators have moved the process online in an effort to cut costs and streamline the work card system.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
Fiery wrong-way crash kills 2 on 215 Beltway in northwest Las Vegas
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school
Las Vegas teen killed in minibike crash had 10 times legal limit for pot, report says
Mystery deepens: Monolith outside Vegas may have been in desert for years