Bishop Gorman advanced to the Sunset Region championship game with a 49-14 victory over visiting Arbor View tonight. Gorman will play undefeated Palo Verde next week for the regional title. Palo Verde beat Centennial 30-0 tonight.
Get ready for some cooler, windier weather — and a chance of rain. The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for the western foothills of the Las Vegas Valley between noon and 6 p.m. Saturday.
Follow the link for quarter-by-quarter scores, scoring plays and statistics for Friday’s Sunrise Region championship and Sunset Region semifinals.
A northern Arizona resident missing since a Nov. 9 canoe accident on the Colorado River is presumed to have drowned, according to the National Park Service.
For only the third time in the past three years, the monthly passenger counts at McCarran International Airport showed growth.
Many Global Gaming Expo attendees almost naturally gravitate to the exhibitors with displays the size of houses and flashing lights by the thousands.
The Federal Election Commission has dismissed a complaint alleging that a former campaign aide to Sen. John Ensign was improperly paid $96,000 in April 2008, following the discovery of their extramarital affair and the collapse of a longtime family friendship, according to documents made public Friday.
The Sierra Club and the Moapa Band of Paiutes have teamed up in a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management for allowing NV Energy to expand a landfill for coal-ash waste onto public land at the company’s Reid Gardner power plant, 50 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
BEIJING — China has sentenced a woman to a year in a labor camp for “disrupting social order” by retweeting a satirical message urging Chinese protesters to smash the Japan pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, an international rights group said. Cheng Jianping, 46, re-posted a message from the social networking site Twitter last month.
DALLAS — A rare comic book an 84-year-old California man bought for a dime when he was a teen has been sold in Texas for $492,937. The copy of Detective Comics No. 27 featured the debut of “The Batman.” Robert Irwin says he bought the May 1939 issue from a Sacramento, Calif., newsstand when he was 13, and it’s the only comic book he kept from his youth.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A gas explosion ripped through one of New Zealand’s largest coal mines Friday while dozens of workers were underground. Five of them, dazed and slightly injured, stumbled to the surface hours later, and 27 were missing, officials said. Police said that shortly before the blast the electricity went out in the mine, which may have caused ventilation problems. That may have contributed to a buildup of gas underground.