Jessica Embro singled home the tying runs with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning and scored the winning run with two outs as Boulder City’s softball team rallied past visiting Faith Lutheran, 5-4 on Friday.
Despite his team’s shooting struggles for much of the game, San Francisco coach Rex Walters had no doubt a 3-pointer by Kruize Pinkins from the top of the key was going to fall as soon as the senior released the ball.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Rashad Muhammad is the face of his basketball team, for better or worse. He continues to smile, even while leading one of the worst teams in the nation.
It didn’t take long for James “Heidi” Fleitz to come around on unmanned aerial vehicles. As someone who once flew the Air Force’s gigantic C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft, he viewed UAVs with skepticism But after he became a drone pilot and saved the lives of troops pinned down by enemy fire, he became a believer.
Jeff Gordon won the pole for Sunday’s Kobalt 400 in his final race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He was one of nine drivers to break the track record, going around the 1½-mile track in 194.679 mph.
Twenty-three-year-old Brennan Poole will be all business today when he makes his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut in the Boyd Gaming 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Part of Keith Thurman’s charm is that you’re never quite sure what is going to come out of his mouth. All you know is it’s going to be interesting and intelligent.
UNLV found itself in prime position to snap a three-game losing streak with pitcher D.J. Myers cruising on the mound early and the team leading UNR 4-1 after six innings.
Las Vegas police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a man they say robbed a southeast valley business on Monday night. Police were called about 10:30 p.m. to a robbery at a business at 8140 S. Eastern Ave. A man walked up to a clerk, demanded and took cash from a register, according to a Friday news release from Metro.
Katie Couric is looking for a new television home — and the likely new boss at her old television home, NBC News, may be looking for her.
Tony Harrison made short work of Antwone Smith, stopping the junior middleweight 19 seconds into the second round and remaining undefeated with a technical knockout in Friday’s main event at the MGM Grand Ballroom.
A vacation doesn’t feel like much of a getaway if your kids are still whining, crying and clinging to you 24/7. Thankfully, it’s possible to get a babysitter when you’re on vacation. Here’s how to make it work
LA Galaxy scored twice in the second half to beat Chicago Fire 2-0 on Friday as the 20th season of Major League Soccer got underway.
Running back Marshawn Lynch returned to Seattle on Friday to meet with team officials and signed a two-year contract extension through the 2017 season.
Nyre Harris’ two free throws with 5.1 seconds left gave San Jose State a victory Friday in the highest-scoring game ever at Cox Pavilion, a 99-97 verdict over UNLV in the teams’ Mountain West women’s basketball regular-season finale.
Hundreds of millions of Windows PC users are vulnerable to attacks exploiting the recently uncovered “Freak” security vulnerability, which was initially believed to only threaten mobile devices and Mac computers, Microsoft Corp warned.
Jimmie Johnson won four Sprint Cup races last year. He led 1,310 laps, a number exceeded only by champion Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski. He posted 11 top-five finishes, 20 top-10s. For most drivers, that’s a spectacular season. In the Hendrick Motorsports race shop that houses the No. 48 Lowe’s/Kobalt Tools Chevrolet, that’s a slump.
Metro police arrested Father Louis Vitale and 32 others early Friday for trespassing at Creech Air Force Base where 140 peace activists had gathered to protest U.S. drone operations in the Middle East and Afghanistan that are controlled remotely at the base, 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez has ordered hefty sanctions against Las Vegas Sands subsidiary Sands China Ltd. for improperly withholding documents related to an ongoing wrongful termination lawsuit.
Safety LaRon Landry, a free agent released by the Indianapolis Colts last month, has been suspended for the first 10 games of the 2015 season.
Tens of thousands of dollars are missing from Green Valley High School coffers and the school’s banker is no longer assigned to a job within the Clark County School District.
Wasting no time, Gov. Brian Sandoval on Friday signed into law a bill exempting school construction projects from Nevada’s prevailing wage law.
Before you make another illogical purchase you can’t afford, you should figure out exactly what that item will cost you. Here are 10 crazy buy-now-pay-later purchases that make little financial sense.
A mountain lion that wandered into a Southern California shopping mall parking lot on Friday was shot with a tranquilizer dart but died as state wildlife officers sought to transport it to the wilderness, authorities said.
Eleven Clark County School District elementary schools will go year-round to relieve crowding beginning in 2015-16, a change that comes shortly after state lawmakers approved legislation allowing the district to roll over a construction bond and build 12 new schools.
A retired Las Vegas police lieutenant who pleaded guilty in the massive scheme to take over homeowners associations said Friday he was testifying for the government to “right a wrong.”
