PHILADELPHIA — The nation’s governors got to work on Tuesday, taking their case for a $136 billion infrastructure spending program to the president-elect. The governors hope the plan will funnel immediate government money toward bridges, roads and rail lines in the hopes of creating jobs and spurring the economy out of recession.
Sometimes an early season basketball game is all about lessons learned.
Texas Longhorns fans won’t be sending holiday cards this year to Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe.
When Floyd Mayweather Sr. decided not to train Oscar De La Hoya for his 147-pound fight with Manny Pacquiao, the ”Golden Boy” needed someone who didn’t necessarily know him but knew something about Pacquiao and how to defeat him.
FRESNO, Calif. — At a time when his prevailing emotion could be frustration, UNLV’s Tre’Von Willis has a valid reason for saying he’s “very excited.”
For several years, Miguel Torres was one of the best mixed martial artists in the world, even though he was competing in relative obscurity.
You could argue the closest we have to him is the president-elect, a person who can excite and unify masses while performing on a platform of hope. Barack Obama has promised change. Manny Pacquiao allows others to live it.
After dominating first-place Fresno on Monday in a 4-0 win in which the Wranglers also pounded the Falcons in three fights, Las Vegas had nothing left for Tuesday’s rematch at the Orleans Arena.
NEW YORK — Shortly after news spread that gun-toting terrorists had launched a deadly siege on Mumbai, 75 blue-and-white police cars, lights flashing and carrying 150 officers, fanned out across Manhattan.
•Ricky Vazquez was convicted of second-degree murder, not voluntary manslaughter as stated in a photo caption in Tuesday’s editions.
RENO — Some homeless men in Reno are criticizing new rules at a men’s drop-in center that they say prevents them from cleaning up to look for work.
A third physician who practiced out of the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada has been hit with a medical malpractice complaint by the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners.
Cost containment is relative around the Clark County Government Center.
A law enforcement task force Tuesday arrested a fugitive in Las Vegas who is a suspect in a fatal shooting in Dallas, U.S. marshals said.
Back in July 1999, after jumping 25 new cars at Pikes Peak International Raceway in Colorado, daredevil Robbie Knievel was asked what was next on his list of things to jump.