When jockey Javier Castellano fell to the track after the ninth race at Aqueduct on Wednesday, I thought to myself that bad things happen in threes. Castellano’s fall came on the heels of recent spills involving Hall of Fame riders Calvin Borel and John Velazquez.
With the college football regular season dwindling to a few precious weeks, it’s worthwhile to look around the country to see where coaches are on the hottest seats.
For the past few seasons, Liberty’s football team has employed a power running game to become one of the area’s top teams. But there has been a change in identity this season.
In a season full of firsts, Sunrise Mountain’s boys soccer team has one more goal on its mind.
Bishop Gorman has appeared in the girls state volleyball tournament for five consecutive years but has yet to win a title.
A Nye County nuclear waste expert challenged federal energy officials Thursday night on why they plan to bury special uranium bomb material in a landfill at the Nevada National Security Site when the ton of waste at a Tennessee national laboratory is too radioactive to be low level.
The third-seeded UNLV men’s soccer team lost to No. 6 San Jose State 9-8 on penalty kicks, after being deadlocked 2-2 after two overtimes, in the quarterfinals of the Western Athletic Conference tournament in Air Force Academy, Colo.
A divided Nevada Supreme Court sided with bankers on Wednesday when deciding how much borrowers could owe if they lose their houses or commercial developments through foreclosure.
Slot machine maker Multimedia Games grew profits and revenues in both fourth quarter and fiscal 2013, the Austin, Texas-based company said Thursday.
A Bullhead City motorist was killed when his pickup plowed through a block wall outside a condominium complex in the northwestern Arizona town early Tuesday.
The Las Vegas Boy Scouts of America will participate in the largest single-day food drive in Nevada on Saturday.
Music: Ben Vereen headlines benefit concert: Encores — and more — highlight the second annual Joe Williams Jazz Scholarship Fundraising Concert, with Ben Vereen and Pia Zadora leading the musical lineup Sunday afternoon at UNLV’s Artemus Ham Hall.
Peanutty specialties: Better Nutters, The King, Fluffer Nutter, Fat Elvis French Toast and Peanut Butter & Jelly.
We’ve all heard the saying, “It’s going to get worse before it gets better.” In the case of the Affordable Care Act, it’s going to get worse before it gets worse still. Millions of people are learning they can’t keep their current individual plans, tens of millions more could be in the same boat at this time next year when the law’s employer mandate kicks in, and hardly anyone is buying expensive Obamacare-compliant policies.
As resorts fight for customers on the Strip in the flashiest ways imaginable, a different sort of competition quietly unfolds on loading docks at the back of the house.
Las Vegas police arrested a man on Sunday who they say used the Internet to lure and seduce individuals under the age of 16.
As with most matters related to health reform, where Nevadans in Congress stood on President Barack Obama’s latest fix depended on where they sit.
The orchestra’s name may say Boston. But the Boston Pops has a constituency that’s probably more national and international than any other orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart says.
A $29 million arts and cultural center is planned for downtown Las Vegas, proponents announced Thursday.
Thai restaurants have become so numerous in the valley that they have to figure out how to stand out in the crowd. Naga Thai has found a number of ways to do it.
Cantina Laredo at Tivoli Village, 430 S. Rampart Blvd., will celebrate its first anniversary Friday through Sunday by offering a free Strawberry Bunuelos with the purchase of any two lunch or dinner entrees. Other specials are $5 La Bandera Margaritas and $5 shots of Patron.
A motorcyclist was killed in an accident with a vehicle at the intersection of Flamingo and Lindell roads Thursday, Las Vegas police said.
A female passenger died after a two-vehicle accident in the southern part of the valley late Wednesday night, Las Vegas police said.
The Clark County School District is the target of a copyright lawsuit for buying a professional training book in 2009, scanning it and posting it online for anyone to download, according to a federal lawsuit filed in September by the author who discovered the reproduction.
