CARSON CITY — Larry and Marty Hall had two massive bull elk sighted in their rifle scopes. A boom from one gun, then another, echoed across the rugged landscape along the Nevada-Idaho line.
The New York Post is famous for using punch-in-the-gut puns as headlines. But the tabloid may have finally outdone itself with the banner headline for Wednesday’s front page story about a midair mishap with a literal Las Vegas connection: “This is your captain freaking.”
The underdog label is sort of tough to buy. Kansas has won 32 basketball games. It won a tough Big 12 Conference by two games. It spent most of the season ranked near or inside the Top 10. These are hardly numbers associated with an average team.
Passengers on a Las Vegas-bound JetBlue flight were forced to subdue their deranged pilot after he tried to force his way back into the locked cockpit.
RENO — A Reno man has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2009 slaying of a Vietnam veteran who took him into his home and treated him like a son.
When Nevada Department of Transportation engineers finished designing the Warm Springs Road bridge and prepared for construction, they realized they had a problem.
The Clark County School District is in the middle of rolling out a sophisticated software system to manage the 36,000 stops its 1,500 school buses make daily.
Robert Rast is still searching for answers a year after his son was killed in Afghanistan in the first-ever friendly fire incident involving an Air Force Predator drone missile strike.
WASHINGTON — The House voted last week for a Republican-written budget for 2013 that further shrinks federal spending while proposing to overhaul entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
Red Rock Canyon: On Monday, watch the documentary “Walking with Dinosaurs,”