Josh Adams scored 27 points and Larry Nance 20 as Wyoming upset No. 1 seed Boise State 71-66 in overtime in a Mountain West tournament semifinal Friday at the Thomas & Mack Center. The Cowboys will play San Diego State, which defeated Colorado State 56-43, for the title Saturday.
The Bengals scored five runs in the first inning and 10 in the sixth in a 19-4, six-inning victory over the Falcons. All nine Bonanza starters had a hit, and 14 players either scored a run or had an RBI.
The 2014 general election ballot forced voters to study more than two dozen District Court and Family Court races. The 2015 municipal primary election is much less daunting, with just one contested judgeship valleywide. But it’s no less important for Las Vegas voters to cast an informed ballot April 7: One day, they could find themselves in Municipal Court, which hears misdemeanor offenses and small civil matters.
Winning pitcher Madison Hood was 3-for-4 with a triple, a double and four RBIs to lead Spring Valley’s softball team to a 13-7 win over Hunter (Utah) in the March Warm-Up in St. George, Utah.
The top-seeded Wildcats hold off UCLA 70-64 in the semifinals of the Pacific 12 Conference tournament at the MGM Grand Garden. Arizona will meet Oregon, a 67-64 winner over Utah, in the championship game at 8 p.m. Saturday.
Lamont Traylor had 12 kills and five blocks on Friday to help Rancho’s boys volleyball team outlast visiting Las Vegas, 17-25, 25-14, 24-26, 26-24, 15-10.
James Skelly tossed a five-hitter and struck out nine Friday to lead Silverado’s baseball team to a 2-1 home win over Tech.
Steve Alford won’t be climbing any ladder or cutting anything down at the MGM Grand Garden on Saturday after his UCLA team was eliminated by top-seeded Arizona 70-64 in the Pacific 12 Conference tournament semifinals Friday night.
The Monterrey Flash held on for a 7-6 victory over the Las Vegas Legends on Friday night in the first Western Conference final game of the Major Arena Soccer League playoffs at Las Vegas Sports Park.
Brooke Leany won a pair of distance events on Friday to lead Arbor View’s girls track team to the title at the Bulldog Early Bird Meet in Mesquite.
The great Mark Twain probably wasn’t the most interesting scribe to set foot in the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. For my money, none could touch the grand Lucius Beebe when it came to personality behind the pen.
The Bengals scored five runs in the first inning and 10 in the sixth in a 19-4, six-inning victory over the Falcons. All nine Bonanza starters had a hit, and 14 players either scored a run or had an RBI.
Tshilidzi Nephawe could have given the politically correct answer when he was asked Friday about being left off the All-Western Athletic Conference first team. Instead, New Mexico State’s senior center opted for honesty.
An Oregon woman who set herself on fire while driving, crashed her car on an interstate and then jumped off a highway bridge to a park below, survived the ordeal and was being treated at Portland area hospital, police said on Friday.
A man is dead and another one suffered critical injuries after being struck by an SUV in the northwest valley Friday night, Las Vegas police said. First responders were called about 8:20 p.m. just north of the intersection of Rancho Drive and Craig Road, Metro Lt. Yaz Yatomi said.
Anthony Pettis will defend his lightweight championship against Rafael dos Anjos on Saturday in the main event of UFC 185 in Dallas. Pettis, who has battled injuries throughout his career, has won nine of his past 10 fights.
A bill that would expand legal protections for justifiable homicides involving occupied vehicles, as well as making it illegal for anyone convicted of domestic violence, even a misdemeanor offense, to own a gun, won unanimous approval from a Nevada Senate committee on Friday.
The main event of UFC 185 matches lightweight champion Anthony Pettis against Rafael dos Anjos. Pettis has stopped four straight opponents in the first or second round and might be the most explosive athlete in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
A measure aimed at regulating federal law enforcement activities in Nevada and making the sheriff the pre-eminent authority in each county was introduced Friday in the Assembly.
Three pit bulls jumped a six-foot fence and attacked and hurt three men in Pahrump on Friday, according to the Nye County’s Sheriff’s office.
Federal prosecutors say Charles “Beeps” Stango’s status as a supervised felon living in a quiet Las Vegas suburb didn’t hinder involvement with the New Jersey crime family that inspired “The Sopranos.”
Arbor View’s Van Thomas carded a 3-under-par 69 at Mountain Falls on Friday to win the individual title in the Pahrump Valley Invitational boys golf tournament.
The Las Vegas Fire Department attacked a fire Friday evening at a central valley apartment complex, the department said.
What’s the best way to promote pedestrian safety in Clark County? Have a Clark County School District detective dress up as a leprechaun and talk to drivers.
Red Rock Academy officials aren’t taking the state-ordered closure earlier this week of Nevada’s only maximum-security juvenile correctional facility quietly.
An argument between a 64-year-old man who wanted a Budweiser beer and his friend who handed him a can of Busch instead ended when the disgruntled recipient shot the other man in the arm, wounding him in a Louisiana parking lot, police said on Friday.
A new family moved into our neighborhood when I was in the seventh grade. I remember the first time I saw them. All four of the children stepped onto the bus, their eyes darting around as if one of us might pounce on them.
Virtual reality is here, in a much different form than you would have expected.
