Thanks to a five-run fifth inning Saturday night against the Silverado Hawks at UNLV’s Wilson Stadium, the Las Vegas Cougars opened the tournament with an 11-1 victory in seven innings.
In a way, Sandoval’s rise in stature reflects the story of Nevada. The Silver State has morphed from a tawdry gambling mecca to a national player in politics, technology, data centers and transportation. Sandoval is on a trade mission to South America and was unavailable to comment for this story.
Aside from Hall H, the longest lines Saturday were for the lottery for a chance to have a poster signed by the cast of a any number of movies and TV shows.
For attendees, this is the equivalent of the seventh game of the World Series. And the seventh game of the NBA Finals. Played during halftime of the Super Bowl. On Christmas morning.
Adults and children enjoy electric-powered go-karting on an indoor track in the Pole Position Raceway in Las Vegas.
U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson objects to proposed Yucca Mountain nuke waste rail routes that she said would encroach on the Nevada Test and Training Range.
Survey results on school district’s draft policy indicate many parents, educators are divided on whether there is such a thing as appropriate texting between teachers and students.
Police should be protecting private property, not profiting from how much of it they can get their hands on.
Scott Blumstein and Dan Ott battled at the Rio Convention Center to determine the winner of the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold ’em World Championship and the $8.15 million first prize.
Clint Dempsey fed Jozy Altidore for the go-ahead goal, then scored on a free kick to match Landon Donovan’s American record with his 57th international goal and lead the United States over Costa Rica 2-0 Saturday night and into the CONCACAF Gold Cup championship game.
Bishop Gorman wide receiver Jalen Nailor announced via Twitter on Saturday that he will be playing football at Arizona State next season. Nailor’s commitment is nonbinding and ASU coaches cannot comment until he officially signs.
Ricky Knapp gave up just two runs in seven innings pitched.
If anything that causes “long stretches of simmering stress” is violence, then any professor with a reputation as a tough grader has a lot to answer for. So do traffic engineers, wedding planners and mortgage lenders.
The attorney general’s announcement should be a clarion call for Congress and state lawmakers.
Parents and students shouldn’t need to worry about predators popping up in the classroom because district officials failed to do their due diligence.
Walking into a classroom and being a living, breathing example of all the possibilities that a good education can open up offers its own rewards.
My advice to the president is to eliminate both Obamacare and Congress. Make members of Congress meaningless and insignificant. Go right over their heads.
We shouldn’t take the lower health-care spending in many European nations as a sign of better health-care policy.
The 1906 Antiquities Act was not intended to allow land grabs and the creation of at-will national monuments.
In my view, two truths must guide any decision: (1) The parents must be sovereign, but (2) the parents are sometimes wrong.
It will certainly strike future historians as curious that we tied our national fate to spending that is backward-looking, caring for people in their declining years, instead of spending that prepares us for the future.
We don’t know if money will fix Nevada’s education problems. We have never really tried.
Do we really want to perform a likely irreversible experiment on our only home?
Someone needs his head examined
Nevada financial consumers, like those around the country, are often unaware of they are being victimized.
This problem is especially acute for children who are considered to be “harder to place” — often teenagers, sibling groups and medically fragile children who, for a variety of reasons, tend to be overlooked.
Former UFC champ Chris Weidman victorious at home in organization’s Long Island debut
Ayden Brown and 10 other children whose lives are affected by cancer basked in the spotlight at the Suncoast Saturday evening during a kids fashion show aimed at raising $60,000 for a costly treatment for the terminally ill 2-year-old boy.
“Opium,” a production featuring a comic host introducing a variety of wild side acts, is reportedly being planned for the venue on the second level of the Shoppes at the Palazzo entertainment and retail promenade.
While most of the headlines seem to come in the form of announcements about upcoming Marvel and D.C. movies, the reality is that TV is taking over the pop-culture convention.
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