Overcoming a 3-1 deficit to win a best-of-7 playoff series is difficult at best.
• LAKE MEAD — Strong winds kept most anglers at home over the past week. Those who braved the conditions caught stripers in the Vegas Bay arm. Sand Island, Boxcar Cove, Crawdad Cove and Government Wash also have been producing fish. Cut baits such as anchovies, sardines and squid have been the most productive.
Cimarron-Memorial wrestler Britain Longmire was named the Nevada winner of the Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and USA Wrestling.
About three years ago, a frustrated fisherman looked on as a group of anglers filleted their catch over the whirling blades of the fish cleaning station at Lake Mead. He wondered how they always seemed to reel in such nice catches.
RENO — A 2-year-old Reno area girl who on Wednesday became Nevada’s first confirmed swine flu case is “playing like a normal child” at home, an adult cousin of the toddler said at an evening news conference at the Washoe County Health District.
As Manny Pacquiao addressed the media Wednesday at the final news conference for Saturday’s junior welterweight showdown with Ricky Hatton, one spectator in the general audience paid especially close attention. Dionisia Pacquiao, 59, is always interested in what her son has to say. That he usually doesn’t say much is fine by her. It means she raised Manny properly.
The idea that his North Las Vegas pig farm could be mentioned in the same breath as a growing swine flu outbreak has Bob Combs squealing in protest.
Money laundering charges against former North Las Vegas Municipal Court Chief Marshal Ricardo Bonvicin were dismissed Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES — An experimental drug greatly increased the number of people who appeared to be cured of hepatitis C infection, according to results of midstage testing.
Move over Bart Simpson, Snoopy, Underdog and other inflatable floats.
With his 28-foot-tall creation bearing a steel eagle with a 9-foot wingspan perched behind him, artist Adolfo R. Gonzalez’s face lit up when he talked about the memorial to fallen Southern Nevada police officers Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Dina Titus’ first bill in Congress seeks to get out information on how homeowners may qualify for help to reduce their monthly payments and avoid foreclosure.
If a crusty 70-year-old Boulder City man had marched outside the federal courthouse with a sign calling bankruptcy court “a brothel” and U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Linda Riegle “a madam” who “pays the working girls and provides the condoms,” his First Amendment rights would have been protected.
Attorney Mary Perry specializes in resolving family disputes in a civil manner, but when the topic turns to the nation’s security, she clearly believes situations exist when harsh treatment, even torture, are warranted.
CARSON CITY — The Assembly voted Wednesday for a bill aimed at blocking unwarranted use of high-priced consultants by state government agencies.
A story in Wednesday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal gave an incorrect date for the public hearing on the Las Vegas Valley Water District’s tentative budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The hearing will be held in the commission chambers at the Clark County government center at 9:45 a.m. May 18.
CARSON CITY — The state Senate voted unanimously Wednesday for a plan that would allow for specialized courts for military veterans charged with nonviolent crimes while struggling to readjust to civilian life.
A prominent Nebraska philanthropist has been indicted on felony theft and bad check charges for allegedly failing to repay more than $14 million in gambling debts to Las Vegas casinos.
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. — The last time swine flu made headlines, the virus itself didn’t spread far but the fallout from the health emergency did.
MGM Mirage and Dubai World ended a 5-week-old public feud Wednesday by agreeing to a comprehensive plan to fully fund and complete the $8.5 billion CityCenter development.
CARSON CITY — Analysts calculating a revenue hole in Nevada’s budget have increased the figure by at least $300 million, bringing a total estimated shortfall to $3 billion or more if lawmakers wanted to maintain current government service levels over the next two fiscal years.
CARSON CITY– The Assembly voted 33-9 Wednesday for a bill to require cigarette manufacturers to sell only “fire safe” cigarettes in Nevada starting in 2010.
RENO — Everett S. Landers, former executive editor of the Reno Gazette-Journal, has died. He was 76.
CARSON CITY — Although heartened by the Obama administration’s opposition to a high-level nuclear waste facility at Yucca Mountain, a state panel fighting the project was told Wednesday it can’t let up on its efforts.
WASHINGTON — What was supposed to be a four-day California vacation almost three years ago turned into a 30-day nightmare for a Henderson family when 9-year-old Rylee Gustafson was hospitalized with deadly food poisoning after eating contaminated spinach.
WASHINGTON — Republican senators on Wednesday pushed back against the Obama administration’s moves to set aside the nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain.
Heaven Can Wait Sanctuary’s Gimme Shelter Concert featuring the Rolling Stones tribute band Jumping Jack Flash will be at 8 p.m. Saturday at Lake Las Vegas Resort.