NEW YORK — She was the first crush for a generation of boys, the perfect playmate for a generation of girls.
The Nevada Athletic Commission unanimously approved a boxing license for reigning WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. Monday, clearing the way for him to compete May 4 against Robert Guerrero at the MGM Grand Garden.
Combative and determined to get her way, Margaret Thatcher divided opinion down the middle in life — and in death.
RENO — Investigators believe four suspects stole property in the apartment of Nevada’s chief insurance examiner before killing him and dumping his body in a river, authorities said Sunday.
Patsy Quinn knows what the agitation that so often accompanies Alzheimer’s disease can mean.
There was a time when Marla, a local mother of a 10-year-old boy with mental illness, kept handmade laminated cards with her whenever she took the child out of the house. “My son is bipolar,” they read, “please just walk away.”
A federal court of appeals upheld a 2010 civil judgment against John Vellardita, now executive director of the Clark County teachers union, and other leaders of his former union in Oakland, Calif., ordering them to pay $1.5 million in damages to the parent organization of United Healthcare Workers-West.
Don King Productions announced that Carlos Cardenas pulled out of Friday’s WBA interim lightweight title fight against Angelo Santana at Treasure Island after suffering a shoulder injury during training.
The UNLV men’s golf team shot 7-under 277 on Sunday to edge top-ranked California and win the ASU Thunderbird Invitational in Tempe, Ariz. UNLV finished at 9-under 843, one stroke ahead of Cal in the 18-team, three-round event.
A novel presentation of a Baroque masterpiece. A sprightly and energetic reading of a work from the ’30s not quite yet fully established as a staple of the repertoire. A masterful and graceful performance of the Third of Brahms’ four symphonies. A duet for trumpet soloists that might work better on a Pops program.
The numbers are in — and up — for the Las Vegas Philharmonic.
Chances are better than good that you or someone in your family has already suffered from it. It really doesn’t surprise you all that much when it happens –– cramps, diarrhea, vomiting.
One of my favorite sights at the gym is parents teaching their children the importance of fitness. Many times it is a father teaching a son, or mother working out with her daughter. Seeing the tandem warm-ups and subsequent lifting is a thing of beauty to me.
Penn & Teller once had a sort of gun showdown with former President George H.W. Bush.
Nevada’s minimum wage won’t change for at least another year. Labor Commissioner Thoran Towler announced last week the minimum hourly rate will remain at $7.25 for workers who receive health benefits from employers and $8.25 for workers who don’t.
After losing only twice during a dominant playoff run to the ECHL Kelly Cup Finals last year, the Wranglers find themselves at the opposite end of the spectrum.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: River Cats, Brian Gordon (1-0); 51s, Dylan Owen (0-1)
Apparently, Ozzie Smith and Vince Coleman have stayed true to their St. Louis Cardinals roots and haven’t forgotten how to work together — even on the golf course.
It was a Monday morning in April in New Mexico exactly 30 years ago, discounting intervening leap years, and the skies over the Four Corners were turning gray and menacing. A stinging chill was in the air. You could tell it was going to snow.
ATLANTA — The idea was to not miss left. If he did, Tim Henderson would be forced to retrieve the basketball by running down the long ravine that bordered the driveway of his family home, the one sitting on 10 acres of rural Louisville land, the one with a backdrop of nothing but open space and woods, the one where a Final Four hero was born from thousands of jump shots launched into another bright orange sunset.
This is what one coach in tonight’s national championship of college basketball was asked about Sunday:
What was considered a crapshoot a few weeks ago is now a game in Rick Pitino’s control. He has been rolling such a hot pair of dice, the odds are in his favor.
Paula Birch has a message for high school students and, particularly, young immigrants: The military has much to offer, including hope. She is living proof.
A few legislators got taken on April Fools’ Day by whoppers told by David Byerman, secretary of the Senate.
A fledgling intelligence squadron at Nellis Air Force Base put all its pieces together for the first time in a recent Red Flag air combat exercise. But now it may experience a setback.
The city of Las Vegas, the epicenter for squatters, was the first to pass a bill making lenders responsible for vacant homes in limbo because the foreclosure process hasn’t been finalized.