Trailing by three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning Thursday, the Las Vegas Knights were just two outs away from elimination in the American Legion Western Regional tournament. But as many local teams have recently learned, a Bishop Gorman team doesn’t go away very easily.
Wilfredo Tovar’s two-out RBI single in the ninth inning sent the 51s to a 3-2 victory over the Salt Lake Bees in a Pacific Coast League game Thursday in Salt Lake City.
The joy of being a sports fan is ingrained in being a “Monday Morning Quarterback.” It’s easy to second guess what an owner, coach, general manager or player should do when you have no skin in the game other than being a fan.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has everything planned out. Come Sept. 12, he’s going to beat Andre Berto at the MGM Grand Garden to remain undefeated. Then, at age 38, he will bid boxing farewell, having equaled heavyweight legend Rocky Marciano’s 49-0 record as the best ever.
UNLV football fans are constantly reminded these are different times under first-year coach Tony Sanchez, from his aggressive approach to recruiting to his willingness to promote the program at every opportunity. And now one more thing.
An 11-year-old Detroit boy was charged with manslaughter on Wednesday after accidentally shooting a 3-year-old boy.
There were plenty of TV-worthy moments in the Republican presidential debate on Fox News Thursday, but there were plenty that weren’t.
Thursday’s question-and-answer sessions with Republican presidential candidates — sorry, they weren’t debates — won’t clear the field and won’t create much separation in the polls, but they accomplished the top goal of party loyalists focused on taking back the White House in 2016.
Donald Trump was the center of attention at a testy first Republican presidential debate on Thursday, drawing boos from the crowd and a rebuke from a rival when he refused to rule out an independent White House bid and bristled at questions about his attitudes toward women.
Whether you cheered for Marvelous Marvin Hagler or Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike Tyson or Lennox Lewis, there will be a champion for just about every fight fan at the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame gathering Saturday night at Caesars Palace.
Rapper Busta Rhymes was arrested and charged with assault for allegedly throwing a protein drink at an employee at a New York City gym, police said.
You can’t call it “the dark side of the moon” based on a new NASA picture.
Former construction company boss Leon Benzer, the man behind the massive scheme to take over and defraud Las Vegas-area homeowners associations, was sentenced Thursday to 15 ½ years in federal prison.
Wow. Looking at Olivia Newton-John and her daughter. It’s like looking at some kind of cloning experiment gone way better than projected.
Russia is the leading suspect in a sophisticated cyber attack on the unclassified email network of the U.S. military’s Joint Staff that prompted the Pentagon last month to restrict access to portions of that network, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
Not everyone who moves to Las Vegas comes for weekend life on the Strip. In fact, you won’t find too many native Las Vegans on the Strip on any given night, unless they work there, of course.
A Las Vegas-based computer software maintenance company has expanded its headquarters in the Hughes Center by adding 11,000 square feet of office space for 60 more lawyers, finance workers, payroll employees and assistants.
So what does a company do with a 2.5-acre hole-in-the-ground on the Strip after years of an expensive and contentious construction defect lawsuit?
North Las Vegas’ city manager promoted three high-level employees Thursday.
The state treasurer’s office late Wednesday released proposed regulations for the creation of Nevada’s upcoming education savings accounts.
We’ve seen the baseball tradition of a player being given the silent treatment after hitting his first home run in the big leagues. But we haven’t seen a reaction like the one displayed by Tampa Bay Rays rookie Richie Shaffer after he homered for his first hit in the majors.
The first nuclear weapon was used in warfare 70 years ago on Aug. 6, 1945, killing more than 66,000 people and destroying the Japanese city of Hiroshima. What would it have done to Southern Nevada?
After more than two-and-a-half hours of discussion of regulations for skill-based slot machines, Nevada is no closer to seeing the potential industry-changing games on casino floors than when the hearing began Thursday afternoon.
The remains of two young Japanese climbers missing on the Matterhorn mountain since a 1970 snow storm in the Swiss Alps have been identified through DNA testing of their relatives, police said on Thursday.
After nearly two decades of punny headlines, media skewering and much, much Washington bashing, Jon Stewart is signing off as host of “The Daily Show.”
A Las Vegas woman imprisoned for torching a pet shop will not be released to deliver her baby, a judge ruled Thursday.
Las Vegas’ newest venue for small conferences, corporate retreats, weddings and parties isn’t in a Strip resort.
The victims of a suspected murder-suicide in north Kingman, Ariz., have been identified as John Arthur Sorensen, 77, and Kelly Rhae Orsolini, 57, by the Mohave County medical examiner’s office.
