Kennedy to meet Romero at UFC 178

A middleweight bout between Tim Kennedy and Yoel Romero has been added to the Ultimate FIghting Championship card scheduled for Sept. 27 in Las Vegas, the organization confirmed Tuesday morning.

 
Washington state begins marijuana sales

Washington became the second state Tuesday to allow people to buy marijuana legally in the U.S. without a doctor’s note as customers eager to be the first to buy pot lined up outside stores.

 
Obama seeks $3.7 billion to deal with border kids

President Barack Obama on Tuesday asked Congress for $3.7 billion to confront a tide of minors from Central America who are illegally crossing the U.S. southern border, straining immigration resources and causing a political firestorm in Washington.

 
Chaparral senior fights to keep dream of diploma

Graduating, always a long shot for Chaparral High School senior James “Bubba” Dukes, becomes even more unlikely after he gets into a fight. The football player hoping for an athletic scholarship is still short a year’s worth of credits.

Pitchers not flipping for these lids

When the San Diego Padres’ Alex Torres became the first big league pitcher to wear one of those new isoBLOX protective pitchers caps in a ballgame recently, bloggers wrote that he looked like one of the Super Mario Brothers.

UFC’s Penn exits as he entered: humbly

An emotional BJ Penn spent several minutes answering questions during a postfight news conference Sunday night at Mandalay Bay before he just couldn’t continue.

 
4 injured when Calif. roller coaster hits tree branch

A roller coaster hit a tree branch at the Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park, dislodging the front car, leaving four people slightly injured and keeping nearly two dozen summer fun-seekers hanging 20 to 30 feet in the air for hours as day turned to night.

3 injured Monday in southeast Las Vegas crash

A single-car crash in the southeast valley left three people in critical condition Monday evening, Las Vegas police say.

After slow start, entries for WSOP Main Event take off

There was concern in some segments of the poker community that the size of the field for the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold ’em World Championship would fall short of expectations following a slow first day.

Consistent gains mark Nevada housing in first half of ‘14

Nevada’s housing market closed out the first half of 2014 with steady gains. Monday numbers from the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors showed continued increases in median prices.

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