One of the most fiery members of the 1986 New York Mets title team, Wally Backman still has the same passion for the game as the 51s’ manager.
Cinderella stayed home. Forget that Kentucky is an 8 seed and Connecticut a 7. Of those teams that have advanced to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament, all are major programs and three have won multiple national championships.
Michael Jordan, the six-time NBA champion with the Chicago Bulls and current Charlotte Bobcats owner, hosted the pro-am portion of the Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational at Shadow Creek Golf Club on Thursday.
Transforming dreams into reality can be a grueling process, as Teller and collaborators discover preparing a new version of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” now marking its world premiere at The Smith Center.
The left is predictably apoplectic over the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the cap on the total amount of money an individual donor can contribute to federal candidates and party groups during a single, two-year election cycle. One candidate declared Wednesday’s 5-4 ruling in McCutcheon v. FEC the court’s worst decision “since the Dred Scott case reaffirmed slavery in 1857.”
UNLV running back Adonis Smith, a Northwestern transfer, is working to bounce back from a disappointing season. He is showing the signs this spring of doing just that.
The road to the Kentucky Derby is into the home stretch as two more key races on Saturday, the Wood Memorial and Santa Anita Derby, will help firm up the 20-horse field.
Teresa A. Crawford of Henderson is one of nine people being honored by the White House Thursday for advocating gun safety laws.
Jordan Hand lined a ball up the middle for what appeared to be a routine single leading off the bottom of the sixth inning.
Tori Ray’s two-run single in the top of the seventh inning Thursday allowed Durango’s softball team to rally for a 5-4 win at Spring Valley.
Spring Valley’s Michael Macove was 3-for-4 with two doubles, a homer, five RBIs and a stolen base to power the Grizzlies to a 14-6 home win over Durango on Thursday.
It’s easy to paint John Calipari as a con artist. He’s slick and perceived as shady, a reputation earned through great recruiting. The Kentucky coach runs an NBA farm team on a college campus.
T.J. Esporas had 23 kills and 12 digs, and Chris Kampshoff added 15 kills and 13 digs to help Las Vegas High’s boys volleyball team outlast visiting Valley 25-19, 21-25, 27-25, 23-25, 15-12 on Thursday.
Allen Fleegle and Alex Vega each shot a 3-over-par 39 at Paiute on Thursday to help Centennial’s boys golf team to a 222-294 win over Bonanza.
Nearly a year after the launch of real money online poker in Nevada, there’s a new wave of players who must pay taxes on Web poker winnings from 2013.
Jordan Hand lined a ball up the middle for what appeared to be a routine single leading off the bottom of the sixth inning.
Congressional candidate Niger Innis was the aggressor Thursday night against Assemblyman Cresent Hardy in their first GOP debate in Mesquite, a conservative rural community. Innis criticized Hardy for voting for state legislation that implemented President Barack Obama’s health care insurance program, including setting up the Silver State Health Exchange and expanding Medicaid.
Authorities are investigating a fight at Mike O’Callaghan Middle School that sent a girl to the hospital.
Integrity Vehicle Solutions, the Las Vegas company that started Nevada down the path of using GPS technology to discourage the illegal long-hauling of taxicab and limousine customers, won the endorsement of the Nevada Transportation Authority Thursday.
Two North Las Vegas firefighters were injured while fighting a blaze on Thursday afternoon, according to a city news release.
Findlay Prep’s boys basketball team boasts two McDonald’s All-Americans. But it was another senior standout who guided the Pilots to a victory on Thursday.
A suburban Detroit man was in critical condition Thursday with severe head injuries after a neighborhood mob beat and kicked him when he stopped to check on a 10-year-old boy who stepped from a curb into the path of his pickup.
Decatur Boulevard’s northbound lanes were closed between Washington Avenue and Lake Mead Boulevard due to a large oil slick.
Retrieving Global Positioning System coordinates from a person’s cell phone so an arrest can be made is not an illegal search if a valid arrest warrant is obtained first, the Nevada Supreme Court said in an opinion issued Thursday.
Police are asking the public for help in identifying a robber who attacked a woman and stole her car in a parking lot in March.
1
2
3
4
5
Where do the richest people in Las Vegas live?
Henderson restaurant closes after almost 10 years
Bellagio unveils ‘Higher Love’ summer display on Las Vegas Strip — PHOTOS
Taxpayers on hook for massive court losses over Badlands. How will Las Vegas pay?
CARTOONS: Why illegal immigrant life guards are a bad idea