Former Colorado State golfer Martin Laird won for the first time on the PGA Tour, capturing the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open on Sunday. … Laird beat Chad Campbell and George McNeill in a three-way sudden-death playoff at TPC Summerlin after all three had finished regulation at 19-under-par 265. His 12-foot birdie putt on the par-4 No. 18, the third playoff hole, ended the drama.
It took four days, but the one uninvited guest finally managed to crash the party at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.
There is a proverb about adversity that says if you faint in the day of it, your strength is small. Ernie Gonzalez believes he has help in such troubling times.
It’s one thing to kick around a tomato can. Sticking an ugly black eye on a heavyweight contender, as Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints did Sunday, is a legitimate accomplishment.
Quagga mussels have invaded Lake Mead by the trillions, but that doesn’t mean no good can come of it. Researchers are now turning Lake Mead’s fish hatchery into a laboratory to understand how the pesky mollusks could impact other Western waters.
The man of the hour took a backseat to the girl of the minute as she whipped her hair around in golden arcs, looking like a blonde windmill on a particularly gusty day.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder waded into potentially awkward waters on Saturday.
When members of the military are stationed overseas, they usually bring their families. They live in Germany or Japan or some other faraway place with a military base and, often, a school run by the Department of Defense.
The trend is clear: In the past five years, Hispanic enrollment at the College of Southern Nevada has climbed more than 50 percent.
The question was valid: Why wasn’t I pounding on the State Bar of Nevada for not putting the disciplinary actions against Nevada lawyers on its Web site? After all, I had certainly hammered the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners and the Nevada Board of Osteopathic Medicine for failing to put detailed medical malpractice information on their sites.
Mitch Albom, 51, grew up in the warmth of a fortunate childhood in New Jersey. Not poor. Not struggling. He was just another kid saturated in religion in Hebrew academy, absorbing every book of the Bible in English and Aramaic.
After months of debate over proposals to reform the American system of health care delivery, the health insurance industry is openly flexing its muscle in opposition to reform.
When officials in the Obama administration said they would reform a Bush administration program under which members of local police departments were allowed to get some specialized training and then help bust illegal immigrants, they assured critics it was just “fine-tuning”
Follow the link for the updated (as of Oct. 19) schedule for the boys and girls state tennis tournaments.