Kennedy Wharton and Eimainei Thomas-Palmer each won two individual events and ran on a winning relay team on Wednesday to lead Valley to a 77½-59½ win over visiting Rancho.
Tensions mounted at the site of a federal cattle roundup in northeastern Clark County on Wednesday, as armed militia group members from Montana set up camp at Cliven Bundy’s ranch house and Bundy family members and supporters scuffled with BLM rangers.
Mucuranyana Amon won the 3,200-meter run on Wednesday to help Clark’s boys track team to a win in a four-team meet in Overton.
Xochitl Quintero scored the winning run on a passed ball with no outs in the bottom of the seventh inning Wednesday as Virgin Valley’s softball team rallied for a 14-13 win over visiting Chaparral.
Darien Bradley had 20 kills and 13 digs on Wednesday to lead Arbor View’s boys volleyball team to a 25-23, 25-16, 26-28, 18-25, 15-7 win at Palo Verde.
Luke Logan shot 2-over-par 74 on Wednesday to lead Boulder City’s golf team to victory in a Division I-A Sunrise League meet at Boulder City Municipal.
Nevada Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson on Wednesday said Republicans have the best chance in years to retake control of the state Senate in the 2014 elections as the GOP closes the voter registration gap in the three most competitive districts — including his own — that are all in Southern Nevada.
Rancho senior Brandy Marlett looked as if she could pitch all day Wednesday.
California research firm RealtyTrac said Wednesday that the Silver State remained one of the nation’s top states for foreclosures, even as default activity fell here.
A Texas man was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for his role in a 1992 beating that turned the victim into a quadriplegic. Lawrence Compehos Jr. never got to see justice. He died in 2008.
The 2011 original earned $143 million in the U.S., but a whopping $341 million in the rest of the world. The sequel’s opening may be muted, though, considering the current glut of family movies, as “Muppets Most Wanted,” “Mr. Peabody & Sherman,” “The Lego Movie” and even “Frozen” are still in theaters.
Christopher Cooney tearfully told a jury Wednesday he regretted not doing more to stop the escalating feud between his mother and brother. Cooney testified during the second day of the trial of his mother, Linda Cooney, who is charged with shooting and paralyzing her son, Kevin Cooney, after a June 2011 fight over his then-girlfriend.
We may find it unlikely to see former “Hee Haw Honey” Misty Rowe directing a doo-wop show at the Riviera. But it’s just the latest in what Rowe, now 63, calls “my very strange and absurd career.”
North Las Vegas’ biggest employee union and its firefighters union have agreed to settlements with the city of North Las Vegas.
The UNLV baseball team fell 9-2 at Arkansas on Wednesday to conclude its trip at 6-3.
Things have been, well, docile, in the run-up to Saturday’s Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley rematch. So Top Rank chairman Bob Arum decided to spice things up at Wednesday’s final news conference by taking a swipe at the host property for the fight — the MGM Grand.
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GOP lieutenant governor candidates Sue Lowden and Mark Hutchison have agreed to a May 12 TV debate on Nevada Newsmakers, a Reno-based political talk show that also airs in Las Vegas, the two campaigns confirmed Tuesday.
The Florida Highway Patrol says a vehicle crashed into a day care center in an Orlando, Fla., suburb and killed one child and injured 14 others.
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The last of four defendants pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday in a betting scheme authorities say defrauded the Palms resort of more than $800,000.
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Assemblyman Tryone Thompson, D-North Las Vegas, will have a new position with Clark County effective April 21, Tim Burch, director of the county’s Social Service Department, announced on Wednesday morning.
Las Vegas police say a 21-year-old man hopped up on amphetamines and oxycodone stabbed two men in the east valley on Monday, killing one and wounding another.
A 19-year-old man has agreed to plead guilty to DUI charges for crashing a speeding vehicle into a crowded Las Vegas restaurant while under the influence of prescription drugs, marijuana and “spice,” a synthetic form of marijuana.
About 100 employees at the valley’s two largest water agencies are about to lose their jobs. “It’s a significant layoff,” said Scott Huntley, spokesman for the Southern Nevada Water Authority and the Las Vegas Valley Water District.
When the tour stops at the Hard Rock Hotel on July 25, Shadow Ridge High School alum Dia Frampton will be there. Las Vegan Ryan Whyte Maloney, however, likely will not. Unless he buys a ticket.