■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: Bees, Billy Buckner (7-2); 51s, Giancarlo Alvarado (4-4)
MICAH ROBERTS’ SPRINT CUP DRIVER RATINGS
When I went to bed Friday night, Speed channel was showing an old documentary about the Trans-Am series.
Chael Sonnen had struggled in his past two fights as he lost title bouts to all-time great champions in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
The statistics are shocking: Seventy percent of illegal-injection drug users will contract hepatitis C from the use of dirty needles. About 10 percent will acquire HIV.
Fisher Space Pen Co. started the same year that Cary Fisher, current president and co-owner of the company, was born: 1948. Back then the company was headed by Paul C. Fisher under the name Fisher Pen Co. and based in Chicago.
A Las Vegas man remained in critical but stable condition at University Medical Center on Saturday night after getting shot multiple times while waiting in line at Meadows mall for the new release of a Michael Jordan high-top tennis shoe.
Two brush fires forced the temporary closure of the major interstate linking Southern California and Las Vegas.
The passenger who survived a go-kart crash that claimed the life of the driver in northwest Arizona remained in critical condition at University Medical Center on Saturday.
The iHeartRadio Music Festival has added some royalty to its lineup, as Sir Paul McCartney has come aboard the star-studded event.
The mystery of the beautiful circular designs that sometimes appear on the sandy sea floor near Amami-Oshima island in Kagoshima Prefecture has been solved by a researcher and local divers.
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Wild horse advocates Saturday hailed a judge’s ruling that temporarily stops unbranded horses gathered by a Nevada tribe from being auctioned for possible slaughter.
As a senior on his fourth tour of duty in this eastern Nevada town, UNLV linebacker Tim Hasson learned a long time ago he better get his sleep.
Luanna Mitchell is gone now, and there is a hole in the world where she used to live.
Two people are dead following a small plane crash in Lyon County.
Lake Tahoe and the environmental perils it faces will be back in the spotlight Monday as hundreds of leading scientists, elected officials and environmentalists convene for an annual forum touting successes and identifying new challenges that threaten its famed clear waters.
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About 50 people gathered outside Las Vegas police headquarters Saturday to show that chalk is washable, cheap to remove and doesn’t require the full amount of $1,500 that the city’s graffiti abatement team estimated it took at a similar chalk event in July when four protesters were cited on misdemeanor graffiti charges.
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Follow the link for Foothill’s preseason capsule information.
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Follow the link for Green Valley’s preseason capsule information.
On July 27, 1880, Colonial British and Indian forces, which were outnumbered 10 to 1, were defeated by Afghan forces in the Battle of Maiwand. On Aug. 17 that battle will be fought again, but this time, the British might win. Or not.
Two bodies were found in northeast Las Vegas on Friday night in what police are calling a murder-suicide.
Despite its tiny size, a nanometer — a billionth of a meter — looms large in the realms of nature and science. For proof, and for fun, look no further than the “Small, Smaller, Nano” miniexhibit at the Discovery Children’s Museum through Dec. 3.
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