It was a Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight to remember, and so was his entrance.
WASHINGTON – Other than an audacious steal of home, Cole Hamels had no problem shutting down the Washington Nationals.
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Albert Pujols circled the bases without showing much emotion after hitting his long-awaited first home run for the Angels – same as he did 445 times with the St. Louis Cardinals.
DENVER – Kobe Bryant and Andrew Bynum put up their usual big numbers. Their supporting cast came up even bigger, sealing the Los Angeles Lakers’ 92-88 victory over Denver on Sunday night that put the Nuggets on the brink of elimination.
SEATTLE – The voyeurism and child pornography charges Steve Powell is facing as his trial begins today in Tacoma have nothing to do with the horrific murder-suicide of his son, Josh, and Josh’s two young boys. Nor are they about the bizarre disappearance of Josh’s wife, Susan, from their Utah home in 2009.
After four years of grass-roots organizing in Nevada, GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul swept almost all of the state’s delegates to the national convention Sunday as his supporters swamped Mitt Romney backers at the state Republican convention.
Before he stepped into the ring Saturday night to face WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto, Floyd Mayweather Jr. had intentions to fight again in 2012.
NASCAR and Las Vegas have gotten serious. The powerhouse sports organization and the tourist playground will take their relationship to another level today with the announcement of a three-year deal to keep NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series Awards and Champions Week in Las Vegas for three more years.
California Rep. Tom Lantos died in 2008, but his family just now is in the process of closing down the hefty campaign fund that financed his 14 terms representing a San Francisco Bay Area district in Congress.
Clark County firefighters trying to cram a college education into their schedules are spending tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on out-of-state tuition costs for online courses to get their degrees.
If they build it, Lonnie Hammargren will come. And he’ll bring some of his space stuff with him. The former Nevada lieutenant governor and 1960s flight surgeon for NASA astronauts has space junk in his backyard, cosmos memorabilia upstairs and scale models of a space shuttle and the International Space Station on the roof of his southeast Las Vegas home.
Young Rhonda Fleming was perfect for the photos and stories Las Vegas News Bureau churned out because the movie star was sexy and fun, attributes our city thrived on, then and now.
A report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics says carpal tunnel syndrome is one of the top two disabling diseases or illnesses in private industry. Endoscopic surgery has become more common way of treating the problem.
This will be the first Mother’s Day without my first health care provider. Alzheimer’s took her out in January.
The patient-provider relationship was always excellent: Mom always found a way to give her patients, or rather her children, the attention they deserved.