Chase Wood and Mark Rubalcaba each finished first in two individual events Friday to help Faith Lutheran’s boys track team win the Boulder City Invitational.
The value of having large, private ambulance companies doing business in Southern Nevada was on display after the May 3 Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana fight at the MGM Grand Garden. A loud bang triggered a stampede of fans fearful of gunfire, leaving dozens of people hurt, 60 people treated for injuries and 24 people in various hospitals.
For more than 50 years, Raymonde Fiol had locked away her childhood memories. She never talked about her childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, not even to her two children. The memories of being separated from her Jewish parents and hidden by a Christian family of Resistance fighters were just too painful.
As Johnny Manziel fell further down the draft board on Thursday, Browns fans already decked out in their “Johnny Cleveland” shirts grew more anxious about whether they would get their guy.
Senior Day allowed Centennial coach Charlie Cerrone to slot players into different positions on the baseball field Friday.
The former heavyweight title contender gets one last shot at the championship as he faces Las Vegas’ Bermane Stiverne at 5 p.m. on ESPN for the vacant WBC title.
Ryan Lawrence hit a two-run double down the left-field line with one out in the bottom of the sixth on Friday to lift Mojave’s baseball team to a 9-8 victory over visiting Virgin Valley.
Not only will Matt Brown finally fight in his hometown of Cincinnati tonight, he will headline an Ultimate Fighting Championship card for the first time. The veteran welterweight is doing everything he can to make his bout against Erick Silva feel like any other fight.
Angel Love went 2-for-3 with a home run and a double to lead Centennial’s softball team to a 13-0, five-inning win over visiting Las Vegas on Friday.
Senior Day allowed Centennial coach Charlie Cerrone to slot players into different positions on the baseball field Friday.
The Nevada Supreme Court has reversed a lower court decision that maintained the parental rights of a Las Vegas couple awaiting trial in the killing of a 17-year-old girl. Rather than rule for the termination of rights, however, the high court’s unanimous Thursday decision ordered a full evidentiary hearing into the case with instructions on how to proceed.
Comic Larry Wilmore of the “Daily Show” has earned Stephen Colbert’s coveted Comedy Central timeslot following Jon Stewart each night.
The only two quarterbacks chosen on the second day of the NFL draft Friday have a lot to emulate. Derek Carr’s guiding light has been older brother David, the top overall pick in the 2002 draft. Jimmy Garoppolo’s favorite player has been Tom Brady, the 199th selection in 2000.
The valley already is home to “Counting Cars” and “American Restoration,” reality shows that take old things and make them look nice and shiny. The latest Vegas-based reality show, debuting at 10 p.m. May 19 on Discovery Channel, is almost the complete opposite of that.
Jury deliberations began Friday in a federal case against three Cuban immigrants charged in a major Las Vegas-area theft ring.
Noah Robotham endured several ups and downs as he was being recruited and admitted the process was “overwhelming.”
Mojave’s Matt Albinio had 10 kills and 13 digs to lead the Rattlers to a 25-19, 25-22, 28-26 sweep visiting Centennial in boys volleyball on Friday.
Ten days after Debbie Flores Narvaez went missing in 2010, Jason “Blu” Griffith lied to and tried to mislead Las Vegas homicide detectives about where the Fantasy dancer was, according to testimony at his ongoing murder trial Friday.
Singer-songwriters Lily Allen and Janelle Monae did it, and now Las Vegas-born musician Sizzy Rocket is bringing feminism to the masses. She became an Internet sensation this past week with her cover of Beastie Boys’ hit song, “Girls.”
A man was transported to Sunrise Hospital in critical condition Friday after falling from a tree-trimming bucket near Sandhill and Russell Roads.
Bolstering Nevada’s economy, Gov. Brian Sandoval’s Office of Economic Development helped create 4,771 jobs last year — three times the number in 2011 — and is on pace to beat that figure in 2014, the director of the office said Friday.
There’s no doubt this capital city has truly earned its nickname as The City Different. Its skyline is not made of skyscrapers, but rather a collection of flat-topped adobe buildings that has taken more than four centuries to evolve. There are plenty of private and state-run museums that can provide history lessons, but simply wandering the streets, talking to locals and breathing in Santa Fe’s mountain air can all be done for free.
UNLV junior Dana Finkelstein shot 2-under par Friday to move into second place at the NCAA Central Regional in Stillwater, Okla.
The Retail Association of Nevada said Mother’s Day spending in the Silver State is expected to reach $293 million and consumers are expected to spend an average of $162.94 on gifts this year.
Jessica Keller, a diver for the National Park Service, was given an award for valor this week after she was credited with saving the life of her dive partner during a 2012 mishap at Lake Mead.
An idyllic Utah canyon home to ancient cliff dwellings and native burials will be the site of a protest Saturday by a group of people who plan to mount their ATVs and ride a trail that has been off limits to motorized vehicles since 2007, but the federal Bureau of Land Management has warned protesters to stay away.
Security teams are part of a rush of ancillary businesses expected to crop up in Nevada with the legalization of medical marijuana dispensaries.
Foothill High School was briefly on lockdown Friday morning because of an “incident involving a substitute teacher,” according to Clark County School District spokeswoman Melinda Malone.
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