Three-run walk-off homer lifts Reno past 51s in 11 innings

Didi Gregorius’ three-run homer in the 11th inning broke a 7-7 tie as the host Reno Aces defeated the 51s 10-7 on Friday night, snapping Las Vegas’ six-game winning streak and salvaging the final game of the four-game series.

Wranglers lose 5-1 to Aces in ECHL playoff opener

A little more than an hour after the eighth-seeded Detroit Red Wings upset the top-seeded Boston Bruins in the opener of their NHL Eastern Conference playoff series Friday night, the Wranglers hit the ice against the Alaska Aces intent on repeating the feat in the ECHL playoffs.

SPRING JAMBOREE: Badayos, Diamondbacks move into bracket semifinals

Shonda Badayos tossed a four-hitter Friday to help Desert Oasis’ softball team to a 7-3 win over Garfield (Calif.) in a Bronze Bracket quarterfinal of the Spring Jamboree at Majestic Park.

Dead body found during Easter egg hunt

A Tennessee woman says she made a grisly discovery while hunting for Easter eggs in her back yard with her 3-year-old son: a dead body.

Calif.-based street artist transforms old Vegas

California-based artist, Christina Angelina, paints the town red… and blue, and yellow, and any spray paint color available.

 
Fans of Ford Mustang roam far and wide to celebrate 50th anniversary

The Mustang Club of America is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the release of the Ford Mustang car at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It’s an opportunity for owners, fans and Mustang aficionados to gather, show off their vehicles and swap stories.

Cooney’s ex-girlfriend contradicts his testimony of how he was shot

Kevin Cooney was sitting on a couch in his family’s home when his mother shot him, an ex-girlfriend told a jury in Linda Cooney’s attempted murder trial on Friday. Clarita Kendall, who dated Kevin Cooney a few years before he was shot in 2011, said he told her that while she was visiting him in the hospital in 2012. Kendall’s testimony at the trial, which has spanned two weeks, supported physical evidence suggesting the bullet entered Kevin Cooney at a downward angle.

Lawyer: ‘X-Men’ director not in Hawaii during alleged sex abuse acts

Credit card receipts, telephone records and production schedules show that “X-Men” franchise director Bryan Singer was not in Hawaii when a lawsuit claims he sexually abused a 17-year-old on the islands, a defense attorney said Friday.

Bundy supporters party, welcome ‘domestic terrorist’ label

Wearing a cowboy hat and with a copy of the U.S. Constitution poking from his shirt pocket, controversial rancher Cliven Bundy on Friday asked dozens of supporters of his cattle-grazing feud with federal land managers what they thought of U.S. Sen. Harry Reid calling them “domestic terrorists.”

Southwest valley stabbing injures 2 people

Las Vegas police are investigating a double stabbing in the southwest valley that sent two people to the hospital. Police responded to the 6300 block of Tropicana Avenue, near Torrey Pines Drive, about 2 p.m.

Reid on Kochs, politics and civility

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid answered a wide-ranging list of questions during the Review-Journal’s annual Hashtags and Headlines event Thursday.

UMC lays off more than 100 employees, closes 4 care centers

More than 100 University Medical Center employees, including registered and practical nurses, pharmacy technicians, and lab assistants, were laid off Friday as hospital administrators announced the closing of four care centers and an outpatient pharmacy.

Slotzilla’s promised spring opening expected to bring some zip to downtown

SlotZilla’s opening downtown is coming soon although the only official message is “Opening soon” signs on the ticket office exterior glass. But workers at the new Banger Brewing storefront in the Neonopolis center about 15 feet from SlotZilla can’t wait for the Fremont Street Experience attraction to open.

It’s Animal Cracker Night in minor league baseball

For the second straight year, MiLB has joined forces with the D. F. Stauffer Biscuit Company, makers of the original animal crackers, on a season-long national sponsorship.

 
7.2-magnitude earthquake rattles Mexico

A powerful magnitude-7.2 earthquake shook central and southern Mexico on Friday, sending panicked people into the streets. Some walls cracked and fell, but there were no reports of major damage or casualties.

Clubhouse News aims to produce news for teens, by teens

The program, viewable at clubhousenews.com, is the brainchild of 51-year-old Lorenzo Doumani, a Las Vegas native who realized with his own teen daughter that “there’s really no news network out there for older kids.”

 
‘Dom Hemingway’: When mediocre movies happen to great characters

Jude Law is barely recognizable as the magnificently bearded title character — picture Fisher Stevens replacing Liev Schreiber as Sabretooth in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” — a paunchy, bellowing, red-faced embodiment of hypertension.

Heller calls for congressional hearings into how BLM handled Bundy roundup

U.S. Sen. Dean Heller on Friday called for congressional hearings into how the Bureau of Land Management handled the roundup of cattle around Cliven Bundy’s Bunkerville ranch, which turned into an armed stand off between the BLM and militia groups.

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