Tyler Pill pitched well enough to get a win on Thursday. But with no run support behind him, the Las Vegas 51s fell to their seventh loss in their past nine games.
The Hoover Dam changed colors — briefly — on Thursday night to help promote the fight against lung cancer.
Morgan Ettinger pitched a one-hitter but was outdueled by San Jose State senior Katelyn Linford in host UNLV’s 1-0 loss in a Mountain West softball game Thursday.
Centennial squandered a two-game lead and survived three match points in the fifth set to defeat Arbor View 25-18, 25-23, 18-25, 24-26 and 19-17 in a Class 4A Sunset Region boys volleyball semifinal at Legacy.
Trailing 10-8 in the fifth set on Thursday, Las Vegas High’s boys volleyball team closed the match on a 7-2 run to knock off Green Valley — the defending state champions — with a 25-17, 21-25, 25-27, 25-21, 15-12 victory in the Class 4A Sunrise Region semifinals at Coronado.
Basic scored three runs in the first inning and rode a strong performance from sophomore Trace Evans to a 7-3 home victory over Coronado on Thursday in the Sunrise Region playoffs.
Nick Hernandez struck out Centennial’s No. 3 hitter Kyle Horton with the bases loaded in the bottom of the sixth, and Bishop Gorman’s baseball team held on for a 7-5 road victory over the Bulldogs to move into the championship game of the Sunset Region baseball tournament.
Host Palo Verde hit two more homers Thursday, adding to its Class 4A state record, and topped Sierra Vista 10-3 in the winners’ bracket final of the Sunset Region tournament.
Coronado softball’s baserunning trickery resulted in the game’s only run, and the Cougars escaped with a 1-0 home victory over Rancho in the winners’ bracket final of the Sunrise Region tournament.
The Pirates now have won three straight playoff games, including a 6-4 home victory over Boulder City on Thursday, sending them to the Class 3A Southern Region championship game.
The fatal shooting was first reported to North Las Vegas police about 8:15 p.m.
Howard went 3-for-4 with two doubles, two runs and an RBI on Thursday to lead Lincoln County’s softball team to an 11-1 victory over Lake Mead in the Class 2A Southern League tournament at Mountain View.
Needles’ Dillon Darrow got a groundout with runners at the corners in the bottom of the seventh as the Mustangs edged Laughlin 7-6 in the Class 2A Southern League tournament at Mountain View on Thursday.
UFC president Dana White said the organization can no longer wait on Georges St. Pierre and will offer middleweight title bout to top contender Yoel Romero.
On Thursday night, Tyler Buchanan helped lead the No. 2 seed Desert Shields into the Class 3A state semifinals with a 25-18, 25-12, 25-15 sweep of No. 7 Chaparral.
UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic is ready for May 13 to arrive. Though much anticipation has surrounded his rematch with Junior dos Santos, Miocic doesn’t want to overthink the fight anymore.
San Antonio is heading to the Western Conference finals for the 13th time thanks to a player who has never been there.
Pahrump Valley earned a 5-2 victory Thursday, sending the Trojans to their first state tournament since 2014.
On Wednesday, a Wall Street Journal story detailing six-figure sick-day payouts to government workers provided yet another sharp poke to the taxpayer eye.
Automation is not a new phenomenon. Understandably, it inspires fear. But so far in the United States, it doesn’t kill job growth.
It was another morning commute, northbound on Interstate 15 headed for downtown Las Vegas. A smattering of cars in the fast lane came up quickly behind a big-rig truck, the driver of which, abjuring the other two lanes, stubbornly hewed to the left.
I wish someone could explain why there is so much concern over cutting back on water usage when the builders are getting permits to build mass houses and buildings as far as the eye can see.
For the 143rd running of Kentucky Derby, I wagered $100 on Always Dreaming to win and collected $570.
This was a badly written, on-the-cheap ballot initiative that was shoved down our throats by a New York billionaire, Michael Bloomberg, and which passed by fewer than 1 percentage point (it carried only Clark County).
As a dog owner (chows) for many many years, I know that most dogs will let you know if they don’t like something.
Progressive lawmakers such as state Sen. Yvanna Cancela, D-Hugo Chavez, continue to insist that government central planners must keep arbitrarily hiking wage floors as a matter of “fairness.”
The 30-page report was prepared by the department’s office of internal oversight and constitutional policing, and its purpose was to list Metro use-of-force trends and identify use-of-force training needs “to further refine police responses in the field with the hope of preventing harm to both citizens and officers.”
At about 6 p.m. Thursday, officers were dispatched to Bloom Apartment Homes at 7075 W. Gowan Road, near Tenaya Way, to investigate a shooting.
At UFC 211 open workouts Junior dos Santos said he’s confident that he’ll defeat Stipe Miocic again and walk away the UFC heavyweight champion on May 13.
Homeless teens walked through the doors of six transitional residences in the Las Vegas Valley on Thursday afternoon to discover renovations and updates to the places they currently call home. All thanks to volunteers from Keller Williams Realty’s local branch.
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