Cody Bostick’s Silverado baseball teammates sure made him wait for a little run support Friday.
Swedish golfer Henrik Stenson turned the CA Championships in Doral, Fla., into a skins game.
The team no one expected to last this long in the Mountain West Conference women’s basketball tournament was making one final stab at sticking around for another day.
Not that he needed to prove anything, but just in case there still were any doubters regarding Luke Nevill being the best player in the Mountain West Conference, the 7-foot-2-inch senior center from Utah showed Friday why he was named Player of the Year.
After going 1-6-3 on the longest road trip in franchise history, the reeling Wranglers returned home Friday in dire need of a victory.
Colby Smith wasn’t looking to do anything magical at Southern Highlands Golf Club on Friday.
WASHINGTON — A battle line began forming Friday around a bill that would create an expert commission to evaluate the nation’s nuclear waste policies.
CARSON CITY — A new bill introduced in the Nevada Assembly would expand the pool of people who are required to submit to genetic testing if they are linked to a crime.
CARSON CITY — Former state government accountants and legislative analysts testified Friday that the Budget Office failed for years to catch salary changes made by the former nuclear projects administrator without direct authorization from the governor.
Each of the 50 or so hats Vicki Akin knitted is only as big as an adult fist, but she knows they could pack a big punch in the fight against infant mortality.
CARSON CITY — A key Nevada Senate panel voted unanimously Friday for a bill that would help homeowners win court judgments for personal property damaged or sold during improper foreclosure proceedings.
The famous “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign has moved one step closer to being placed in the National Register of Historic Places.
INCLINE VILLAGE — A governmental agency at Lake Tahoe has reinstated health care insurance benefits to domestic partners of employees after hearing complaints from the American Civil Liberties Union and others.
A story in Friday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal about a couple facing felony child abuse charges after an 18-foot python bit their son contained an error. It should have stated that the couple waived their right to a preliminary hearing Thursday and are scheduled to formally enter Alford pleas to gross misdemeanor charges on April 2.
Clark County officials want to put off opening a low-level offender jail for at least a year to save $13 million in operating costs and help offset an expected budget shortfall.
In one corner: Elaine Wynn‘s attorney Don Schiller, who represented Juanita Jordan in her divorce from NBA icon Michael Jordan.
CARSON CITY — More than 60 measures were proposed Friday in the Nevada Legislature as lawmakers rushed to meet a Monday deadline for bill introductions by individual lawmakers.
A high school math teacher is accused of dealing methamphetamine and marijuana, but police said they have no evidence that the Durango High School employee was selling drugs to students.
CARSON CITY — Legislative money committee members have told Nevada Human Services officials that money must be added back into budgets providing services to children from low-income families and to pregnant women.
CARSON CITY — Nevada’s every-other-year legislative sessions would be changed to every year under the latest of many such attempts to be proposed by state lawmakers.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers on Friday debated a bill to boost penalties for thieves who steal copper wiring and then peddle it on the street or to recycling firms.
Facing a flagging economy and dwindling tax revenues, the union representing Las Vegas’ rank-and-file police officers agreed to forgo cost-of-living raises under a tentative deal for a new contract reached late Thursday.
Brian O’Donnell has hiked the back country of Nevada’s wildlands and he’s been to Red Rock Canyon at least 100 times.
CARSON CITY — The economic gloom that marked the start of Nevada’s 2009 legislative session didn’t seem to faze lobbyists, who spent $57,996 on food and drinks at dinners, receptions and other events during February.
The road worker struck and killed by a motorist on Feb. 20 has been identified as James Philip Wilson Jr., a 35-year-old Las Vegas man.