Las Vegas Mayhem junior Hector Perez doesn’t even have his driver’s license yet.
Hector Perez hit a single in the bottom of the ninth inning, scoring Eddie Ojeda from third base to lead the Las Vegas Mayhem to a 3-2 victory over Green Valley Elite on Thursday in the second round of the Connie Mack state baseball tournament at College of Southern Nevada’s Morse Stadium. Perez went 3-for-4 with two RBIs and a run.
Despite promises of reform, veterans in Nevada continue to suffer the longest waits in the nation to have disability claims completed by the Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Sen. Dean Heller on Wednesday told a top VA official trying to turn around the troubled agency.
Sand Dollar looks to recapture its reputation of providing consistent, quality, live blues by local bands. “That’s what people wanted it to be. And we wanted to go back to that,” says owner Brooke Alexander.
Cable and Internet giant Comcast is apologizing after a tech-savvy California customer posted eight minutes of telephone conversation online in which he tried repeatedly to get a customer service representative to disconnect his service.
Nevada couldn’t escape its foreclosure quagmire in the first half of 2014.
The vampire in the teen romance your daughter checked out from the library is fictional — but there could be a bloodsucker lurking in the book’s binding that isn’t make believe.
Donald Cerrone knocked out Jim Miller with a head kick in the second round of the main event of an Ultimate Fighting Championship card Wednesday in Atlantic City.
Traffic on northbound Interstate 15 is slowly starting to move after a multiple-car crash near the Charleston Boulevard exit.
North Las Vegas OK’d a second medical marijuana ordinance Wednesday, unanimously adopting business licensing rules first introduced early this month.
North Las Vegas looks primed to redraw its voting districts for the first time in a decade. City Council members on Wednesday heard plans for a proposed redistricting effort that, if approved, would wrap up just months before a pair of City Council seats go up for grabs in November 2015.
A federal magistrate has recommended dismissing felony drug trafficking charges against a former officer of the Vagos motorcycle gang because of outrageous government conduct by the lead undercover agent in the case.
Allan Dykstra of the Las Vegas 51s went 0-for-3 in the Pacific Coast League’s 7-3 loss to the International League in the Triple-A All-Star Game.
A person is dead following a vehicle crash in the northeast valley Wednesday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
If you look closely enough, almost everything has a “national day,” and many of them don’t amount to much.
■ LAKE MEAD — Reports of striper boils are somewhat varied, but they have been sufficient to create excitement among anglers. The key is being in the right place at the right time. Most of the stripers being caught this past week were less than 2 pounds. Prime time to be on the water is before sunrise. Striped bass are hitting on shad or imitation lures, such as the Sassy Shad. Cheese has been a hot bait for catfish, especially at night in the backs of coves. Black bass have been active as well with anglers having luck just off shorelines in 6 to 10 feet of water or off cliff walls using top-water baits or grubs.
Short, sweet and to the point. There really is no other way to describe HR 5026, federal legislation known simply as the Fish Hatchery Protection Act.
The seaside race track near San Diego celebrates its 75th anniversary beginning today and is a haven for Las Vegans seeking relief from the oppressive summer heat. There is over $8 million in purses being offered for stakes races, but even the $1 million Pacific Classic on Aug. 24 isn’t enough to lure California Chrome to the track.
All jokes aside, if players in the Vegas Summer League don’t make the NBA, there are worse things than playing in the Turkish Basketball League.
They’re behind the baseline at Cox Pavilion. They’re in the corner of the lower bowl of the Thomas & Mack Center. Who are these guys? Scouts.
The nine-to-five grind can get monotonous and dull, especially as each week comes to an end and the weather gets hotter. It’s not hard to let weekend routines become stagnant and complacent, so as the heat kicks up, take advantage of the surrounding states’ beautiful parks, cities and beaches.
A California condor chick hatched this summer in the cliffs of Zion National Park, and the baby bird has biologists buzzing.
Harry Reid recently announced he was selling his home in Searchlight and moving to Henderson. Reid’s residence on 110 acres is being bought by a mining company for $1.7 million, according to published reports.
Nevada is the nation’s biggest gold producer, the bullion behemoth behind 75 percent of all U.S. gold output. In fact, if the state were its own country, Nevada would rank in the world’s top five for gold production.
Struggling to defuse the persistent crisis in Ukraine, both the U.S. and European Union imposed new economic sanctions on Russia Wednesday, with President Barack Obama declaring that Russian leaders must see that their actions supporting rebels “have consequences.”
