Casey Janssen took less than two years to make his way from fourth-round draft choice in 2004 to the Toronto Blue Jays’ starting rotation.
Fedor Emelianenko and his manager shunned what was probably a much more lucrative deal from the Ultimate Fighting Championship to sign with Strikeforce. Perhaps the best heavyweight mixed martial artist in the world, Emelianenko will debut with the upstart organization in the fall.
The U.S. Women’s Open bowling championship will have an added international flavor when the six-day event begins today at Sunset Station.
LONG POND, Pa. — Denny Hamlin had few bigger fans than his grandmother. She wore her No. 11 socks, held her No. 11 stuffed bear and watched every race on television — even as she sat and squinted only inches away from the 30-inch screen.
CARSON CITY — Nevada’s unemployment trust fund has dropped to $70 million, down from $806 million a year ago, as unemployment in Nevada has reached its highest level since the Great Depression.
Attorneys for Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki asked a Clark County District Court judge Monday to dismiss misappropriation charges against their client, claiming the charges are being pursued in the wrong venue.
The state Supreme Court works in a world of case law and facts, procedure and precedent, and that’s as it should be.
ELY — Ely is still struggling to meet the rising demand for water this summer.
The sentencing of Steven Zegrean, who wounded four people after unleashing a barrage of gunfire inside New York-New York in 2007, was postponed Monday.
An 82-year-old man who died Monday after being beaten at home in a July robbery attempt was identified in a Henderson police report as Wesley Roberts.
Jerrell Roberts is really into shoes. Seriously into them. Like, he knows things about the original Air Jordans back in the 1980s that you’d have to look up in a database somewhere. … Roberts, 21, is studying business at UNLV and the College of Southern Nevada. CSN is where he ran across business professor Kevin Raiford, a former corporate big shot who is now helping community college kids realize their dreams by encouraging them to create business plans that would work in the real world.
A member of a prominent boxing family was arrested Sunday after being accused of attacking a female boxer he once trained.
One woman was killed and 11 people were injured early Monday when the Ford Expedition in which they were riding blew a tire and overturned on Interstate 15 near Sloan Road, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
CARSON CITY — A federally funded program that state Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford wanted to use to train unemployed workers for future renewable energy-related jobs was delayed at least until September at his request Monday.
Las Vegas Councilwoman Lois Tarkanian on Monday urged people to weigh in on the proposed closing of the Garside Station, one of five post offices in Southern Nevada that might be closed to cut U.S. Postal Service costs.
CARSON CITY — Legislators approved hiring a federal stimulus funds manager Monday but decided on a party-line vote to place the official under the control of Democratic state Controller Kim Wallin, not Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons.
Members of Nevada’s political class are reconsidering the potential cost of careless, negative campaign rhetoric after a state senator agreed to pay a vanquished foe $150,000 to settle a legal battle over claims a jury found crossed the line from free speech to defamation and libel.
When former Las Vegas Mayor Jan Jones began her run for the office in 1990, one of the first people she sought out was Jeanne Hood, then president of the Four Queens.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — A Kingman police officer was wounded during a murder-suicide call, but another officer managed to remove a baby who was in harm’s way Sunday.
In a rare hearing before the Nevada Supreme Court on Monday, lawyers for O.J. Simpson and a co-defendant argued for their clients’ freedom while they appeal convictions on armed robbery and kidnapping charges.
A man accused of posing as a detective and sexually assaulting a woman was arrested and charged Monday, Las Vegas police said.
A handful of performers with Las Vegas ties made it into the top 40 of “America’s Got Talent,” including triplets who play violin; George Wallace‘s sometimes-opener Mosaic; and a chain saw juggler who likes to play with fire.
Using federal stimulus money to prop up struggling state budgets has been a wonderful success, according to Chad Stone, an economist at the leftist Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, D.C.
With the opening of the $8.5 billion CityCenter roughly four months away, MGM Mirage quickly found out that Wall Street had more interest in the prospects for the massive Strip development than the company’s $212.6 million operating loss in the second quarter.
Kansas gaming regulators may be forced to look into $96,000 in payments former casino executive Michael Ensign made to the family of a woman who had an affair with his son, Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev.
