While countless baseball fans say they’d do “anything” for World Series tickets, a “desperate” Philadelphia fan apparently means it.
Huckleberry Thorn doesn’t roll over or sit up and beg for treats. He doesn’t fetch tennis balls from the pool. He’s not all that big on rubber toys. He doesn’t stand around for 15 minutes waiting for the lighting to be just right while posing for photos.
When Chris Lamb introduced his 8-year-old son to driving half-scale dragsters with motorcycle engines, he wasn’t thinking that his son one day would be on the cusp of achieving a drag-racing milestone.
Coronado appears to be the clear favorite in Friday’s Sunrise Region girls cross country meet — if it can field a healthy team.
• BISHOP GORMAN — Boys soccer sweeper Connor Zanoni helped the Gaels post a 3-0 win over Bonanza. Girls tennis players Michelle Shoen and Amanda Silvestri won a crucial tiebreaker game to lift the Gaels to a 10-9 win over Liberty for their fifth straight state team title.
• LAKE MEAD — Striper fishing was good last week but has tapered off. Windy conditions made for good fishing, especially jigging. Successful anglers are catching fish with top-water lures and jigging with anchovies. Anglers fishing in the Echo Bay area are finding success around Stewarts Point.
When Melanie Ochs’ 7-month-old foster son suffered a fatal head injury in 2006, she initially blamed her two children.
Authorities are seeking a 32-year-old man in connection with home invasion attempts and peeping Tom incidents in the north valley, North Las Vegas police said Wednesday.
Organizers of next month’s Project Homeless Connect are seeking volunteers for the annual event, which aims to help thousands of the valley’s homeless find housing, jobs and other services.
With six more deaths confirmed by the Southern Nevada Health District on Wednesday, the number of H1N1-related fatalities in Clark County rose to 18.
Too often, the motivation behind a tell-all book boils down to money and fame. Andre Agassi has both.
The 86-year-old man accused of fatally shooting his wife before attempting suicide has been released from jail.
Nevada posted its 10th straight month of double-digit declines in taxable sales in August. … Wednesday’s numbers from the state Department of Taxation showed that Nevada’s businesses rang up $3.1 billion in sales in August, down 24.1 percent from $4.1 billion in August 2008.
A Wednesday afternoon fire ripped through a northwest valley apartment complex, displacing two people and causing $150,000 in damage.
Constructing express lanes to ease congestion on Interstate 15 has been a bumpy ride for the Department of Transportation, which hopes to make motorists’ commutes a little smoother by opening completed stretches.
A Las Vegas deputy fire chief was placed on paid administrative leave after he was arrested Saturday on two counts of domestic battery.
Las Vegas has another potential arena developer scoping out land downtown.
The appeals of two convicted sex offenders were heard by a panel of Nevada Supreme Court justices Wednesday in Las Vegas, with defense attorneys in both cases arguing the district judges who tried their clients should have compelled the victims to undergo psychiatric evaluations.
T o paraphrase the new Michael Jackson concert movie, “This is not it.”
Don Williams always remembers where he parks at the Imperial Palace. His cars, nearly 300 of them, are on the fifth floor. They’re part of the Auto Collections showroom, and their price tags total $250 million.
David Mamet’s 1985 “The Shawl” is often thought of as one the author’s easiest plays for the average person to enjoy. It’s got a straightforward plot, intriguing moment-to-moment dialogue, and a surprising climax. So why is Las Vegas Little Theatre’s production such a downer?
Everybody wants to get into the act. The really big big-screen act, that is.