Sanchez, 51s pound Iowa

No. 9 hitter Angel Sanchez belted a grand slam and drove in seven runs to lead the 51s to a 16-8 victory over the Iowa Cubs in a Pacific Coast League game Monday in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Unlike NFL, United Football League embraces gambling

UFL Commissioner Michael Huyghue, who has talked with officials from the Nevada Gaming Commission about regulations, said betting is “certainly a tightrope that we’ll walk” as the UFL grows. And he said the Locomotives nickname will inevitably be shortened to “Locos.”

UNLV’s Beauchamp steps up to front

One number, an impressive number, sticks out when looking at the football season UNLV’s Jason Beauchamp put together last year.

Gorman returning to World Series

Winning a second straight American Legion Western Regional title was big for the Bishop Gorman High School baseball team.

Nomads — er, Locos — taking things slowly

I suppose if they really were going for a reference that would honor the vast history of Las Vegas, the local United Football League team could have settled on the nickname Nomads.

Upstart rankles White

Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White always has been ruthless in his approach to organizations looking to capitalize on his company’s supremacy in the sport of mixed martial arts.

Union official sees jobs in renewable energy projects

The Silver State will soon run out of major construction projects: The Strip’s massive CityCenter will be complete by the end of the year, and the Hoover Dam bypass bridge will conclude soon as well.

Solar retrofitting stalls

The technology is here, and incentives are in place, but the task of retrofitting homes in the Las Vegas Valley with solar panels is mired in the sagging economy.

Poll: Reid would lose if Lowden were to run

Republican Sue Lowden would defeat incumbent Democratic Sen. Harry Reid by 6 percentage points in a head-to-head matchup, according to a poll of likely Nevada voters.

Podesta says ideas formulated at event will shape legislation

John Podesta, chief executive officer of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, said ideas under discussion at Monday’s National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 will help shape pending legislation in Congress, including a carbon cap-and-trade bill the Senate will consider in the fall.

Blasting to affect I-15 travel

Transportation officials say rock blasting will force closures twice a week for the next 10 weeks on a stretch of Interstate 15 near the California-Nevada state line.

Tour helicopter strikes bird

A tour helicopter made an emergency landing in Lake Mead National Recreation Area on Monday after striking a bird midflight.

Suspect in slaying of girl, 9, arrested

The man police say shot and killed a 9-year-old girl in June was arrested over the weekend, police said Monday.

Clinton preaches green spirit

Quit piddling around! That was the earnest exhortation from former President Bill Clinton, who spoke to a sold-out crowd of 900 attendees at Monday’s National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 at UNLV.

In a wide-ranging speech, Clinton referred repeatedly to the 7 million jobs the nation has lost since the recession’s 2007 start. He talked of restoring some of those jobs by unlocking private capital locked down in a credit freeze, and he urged the nation to “take what Nevada is doing and put it on steroids” to develop a green economy.

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Clerk fired gun before dying

A liquor store clerk killed during a robbery Friday night managed to shoot one of his assailants before he was gunned down, police said Monday.

Death of boy at Death Valley ruled accident

The death of an 11-year-old boy stranded in Death Valley National Park last week has been ruled an accident by the coroner’s office in San Bernardino County, Calif.

Piece of history surfaces: Tintype thought to be of Comstock

CARSON CITY — An 1850s tintype of a man thought to be Henry Comstock, the miner for whom the Comstock Lode was named, has been discovered by a Massachusetts collector and dealer of old photos.

Military career got start in Vegas

Ian Dickinson only spent three years of his childhood in Las Vegas, but he still considers it his hometown.

Energy event draws scores

About 100 people turned out Monday morning to protest the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0.

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One dead, two injured in shooting

A dark Ford pickup riddled by bullets marked the scene of a Monday shooting that left one person dead and two others injured on a residential street near Decatur Boulevard and Sahara Avenue.

68-year-old dies after crash

A 68-year-old man who might have suffered a medical episode while driving died at Valley Hospital Medical Center on Monday after a one-car crash near Wheeler Peak Drive and Martin Luther King Boulevard, Las Vegas police said.

Fator’s girlfriend is a cub reporter

I was lining up with the press Saturday night at club Pure — where we were getting ready to interview Jenny McCarthy — when I saw a celeb I know standing next to me in the media pit: Terry Fator.

Mortgage help?

State officials envisioned last month’s launch of the Nevada Foreclosure Mediation Program as a triumph of government intervention and bureaucratic compassion.

Gore argues for alternative power, conservation

The suggestions from more than 25 panelists and speakers at the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 could substantially help shape proposed federal legislation in the next year. But first Vice President Al Gore made his case for taking action. “This is madness,” Gore said. “We owe it to ourselves, our children and our grandchildren.”

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