Seven straight batters reached base in the first inning before Tacoma Rainiers starter Joe Wieland recorded an out. By that point, the two-run lead he was staked to had disappeared and the Las Vegas 51s were well on their way to their fourth straight victory.
Isai Barrios had 19 kills Friday to help Chaparral’s boys volleyball team to a 28-26, 21-25, 21-25, 25-18, 15-7 win over host Liberty.
Tiare Lee went 4-for-4 with a home run, a double and two RBIs on Friday to help Rancho’s softball team clinch the Division I Sunrise League title with an 11-4 win over visiting Foothill.
Bonanza fell behind 4-0 going to the bottom of the second, but used a pair of four-run innings to defeat visiting Centennial, 8-5.
Zach Murphy drew a bases-loaded walk to force home Austin Wishard with the winning run with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning Friday as Boulder City’s baseball team rallied for a 5-4 win over visiting Spring Valley.
D.J. Myers pitched seven shutout innings, and Corey Pool’s three-run homer highlighted a five-run first inning for UNLV in its 12-0 victory over San Jose State in a Mountain West baseball game Friday in San Jose, California.
Philadelphia drug dealers looking to market their heroin as top of the line are stamping packets with the likeness of Golden State Warriors superstar Steph Curry.
Former U.S. Sen. and Nevada Gov. Richard Bryan has become only the second person in the history of the University of Nevada, Reno, to have a statue dedicated in his honor at the school founded in 1874.
Saturday will see rain showers “off and on pretty much all day,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Barry Pierce.
Luke Walton is coming home to rebuild the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers reached an agreement Friday night with the Golden State assistant to become their head coach.
Colorado’s tourists would be able to buy as much marijuana as residents, if a bill moving through the state Legislature passes.
Four years ago Thursday, Las Vegan Bryce Harper walked into Dodger Stadium and found his name on the lineup card, hitting behind second baseman Danny Espinosa and ahead of catcher Wilson Ramos, in seventh.
Cracker Jack’s new move to replace plastic toys with QR codes was met with a mixture of ambivalence and annoyance at the Las Vegas 51s game at Cashman Field on Friday.
Arizona Republicans are headed to Mesa on Saturday for the state party convention, where they’ll elect 55 of 58 delegates to the national GOP convention.
Las Vegan Roy Nelson will fight Derrick Lewis in the co-main event of the Ultimate Fighting Championship card on July 7 at the MGM Grand, sources close to the organization confirmed.
It helps to have friends in high places when you’re promoting an athletic event.
In Connecticut, minors with parents killed in a wrongful death incident could sue for loss of love and affection, just like a spouse.
Many Nevada companies are missing opportunities to grow their business and increase revenues because they don’t think about exporting their goods and services abroad. That’s the message of Kris Sanchez, director of international trade with the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development.
A judge on Friday sentenced a Colorado woman to 100 years in prison for cutting a nearly 8-month-old fetus from a stranger’s womb.
In the pitch-black, early morning hours of March 5, Anthony Bruno followed his gut feeling, and it led to saving a man’s life.
A major hurdle was cleared in businessman Bill Foley’s attempt to bring an NHL franchise to Las Vegas when the league and its players association reached terms on the rules to conduct an expansion draft.
From 2012 until she quit the Las Vegas Valley Water District under a cloud in December, purchasing analyst Jennifer McCain-Bray spent $4.5 million of public money on ink jet cartridges she then sold to a buyer in New Jersey for a cut of the money, according to new details released Friday by the water agency.
The family of the man who died Wednesday after he was found unconscious in a car at an apartment complex is raising money to ship his body back to the Virgin Islands, where he was born, for burial.
Rep. Cresent Hardy said Friday he introduced a bipartisan bill to help save rural hospitals such as the one in Tonopah that closed in August.
A federal jury has acquitted three men accused of trying to hide a convicted felon’s ownership stake in land Wynn Resorts wants to develop into a casino in Massachusetts.
Sports betting icon Bill Walters will roll the dice for the third time with industry leader Concierge Auctions, this time on the sale of his Henderson property overlooking downtown Las Vegas, which will sell to the highest bidder without reserve on April 30.
A government proposal to withhold key evidence from the public in the Bunkerville standoff case is “overbroad and unsupported,” according to court papers filed by the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Friday.
If you can’t attend National Pie Championships this weekend, be there in spirit.
