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.
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.”
One number, an impressive number, sticks out when looking at the football season UNLV’s Jason Beauchamp put together last year.
Winning a second straight American Legion Western Regional title was big for the Bishop Gorman High School baseball team.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A tour helicopter made an emergency landing in Lake Mead National Recreation Area on Monday after striking a bird midflight.
The man police say shot and killed a 9-year-old girl in June was arrested over the weekend, police said Monday.
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.
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.
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.
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., wants to change the old electoral axiom: “As Ohio goes, so goes the nation.”
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.
Ian Dickinson only spent three years of his childhood in Las Vegas, but he still considers it his hometown.
About 100 people turned out Monday morning to protest the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0.
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.
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.
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.
State officials envisioned last month’s launch of the Nevada Foreclosure Mediation Program as a triumph of government intervention and bureaucratic compassion.
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.”