Former lightweight champion Frankie Edgar won all five rounds over Urijah Faber on his way to a unanimous decision Saturday in the main event of the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s first card in the Philippines.
Trailing by four runs entering the bottom of the seventh inning, Bishop Gorman rallied to tie the game on Austin Cram’s two-out, two-run homer, then won it when Cadyn Grenier led off the bottom of the ninth with a homer to give the Gaels a 6-5 win over Green Valley in the Division I state baseball championship game.
Faith Lutheran’s frantic rally fell short Saturday, and the Crusaders lost to Churchill County 11-8 in the championship game of the Class I-A state baseball tournament. Faith Lutheran was seeking its third consecutive state title.
Bishop Gorman junior Vashti Cunningham failed to clear her opening height in the girls high jump at the Division I state track and field meet. Cunningham, the daughter of former NFL and UNLV quarterback Randall Cunningham, set a national high school record in the high jump last month at 6 feet, 4¼ inches.
What happened to Bishop Gorman junior Vashti Cunningham on Saturday is the equivalent of Gordon Ramsay overcooking a steak.
Faith Lutheran’s Cayla Nikodemus came off the curve in the girls 200-meter dash Saturday and was exactly where she wanted to be.
With two weeks remaining in the 2015 Legislature, pension reform ranks high among lawmakers’ most important unfinished business. The state retirement system for public employees is underfunded by billions of dollars and already is squeezing government budgets because of rising contribution rates for overly generous benefits.
A Las Vegas Realtor is taking on Seattle-based Zillow when it comes to the information consumers use in determining the value of their home.
Spain houses more than 200,000 slot machines countrywide. The payouts are not life changing for the customers and the gaming revenue doesn’t move the needle for operators.
MGM exec confident two festival grounds will see enough “creative” use to pay off.
Michael Huerta, head of the Federal Aviation Administration, will keynote a daylong aviation symposium in Las Vegas next month.
The U.S. House last week voted to end the National Security Agency’s mass collection of telephone records, a piece of the Patriot Act decried as a privacy invasion but which the Obama administration says is crucial to detect potential terrorist attacks.
High decibel exchanges aren’t uncommon in Coral Academy of Science math teacher’s Hikmet Erdogan’s classes. They reflect a deep — albeit noisy — passion for math that he nurtures in each of his pupils.
While the debate over how to fund Gov. Brian Sandoval’s 2015-17 budget remains unresolved, lawmakers on Saturday finished work on his $7.4 billion general fund spending plan by approving the public education budget.
CARSON CITY — Waiting to swim the anchor leg of the boys 400-yard freestyle relay, Logan Houck had nothing to do but watch as Palo Verde teammate David Miller opened a two-second lead in the final event of the Division I state swimming and diving championships Saturday at Carson City Aquatic Facility.
It’s all coming together as Rock in Rio heads into its final hours.
A trip to the “office” for a musician usually means transporting not just instruments and music, but stools, lights, pedals, stands, cables, amplifiers, mixers, microphones, CDs, laptops, cell phones and carts.
A three-hour search for a missing hiker in Red Rock Canyon on Saturday resulted in the hiker’s rescue.
Organizers of the Celebrate Israel Las Vegas Festival said the notes placed in the 32-foot simulated wall eventually will make their way to Jerusalem and be inserted into the real Western Wall.
Local filmmaker Stan Armstrong will debut the documentary he spent five years researching May 24 at the West Las Vegas Library.
A Texas teen says he saw Jesus while he was unconscious and without a pulse for 20 minutes.
This is an endless topic of debate among horticulturists. And while there are some arguments to be made in favor of organic fruits and vegetables, there are others that are less impressive. In the end, consumers are on their own.
If people still do that thing where they name their babies after where they were conceived, you can expect an influx of young people called Strip and Circus Circus Adjacent.
Trailing by four runs entering the bottom of the seventh inning, Bishop Gorman rallied to tie the game on Austin Cram”s two-out, two-run homer, then won it when Cadyn Grenier led off the bottom of the ninth with a homer to give the Gaels a 6-5 win over Green Valley in the Division I state baseball championship game.
The live auction during the recent Nevada Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation at Mandalay Bay raised a record $295,000. And that was only a part of the funds raised that evening.
Palo Verde falls short in its quest to win its second consecutive state softball title, losing to Reed 3-2 in eight innings Saturday in the Division I championship game. Reed won its first state title since 1998 and avenged a loss to the Panthers in last year”s final.
A Las Vegas bank that had planned to offer accounts to medical marijuana businesses has backed off, citing the astronomical cost of complying with federal regulations.