When Scott Dysinger suffered a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder in January, he was unsure when he would be able to pitch again.
Edwin Bellorin hit two home runs and drove in four runs, and three Colorado Springs pitchers limited the 51s to four singles as the Sky Sox beat Las Vegas 13-0 in a Pacific Coast League game Thursday in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Let’s start today with the 2009 NASCAR schedule before we examine a safer Las Vegas Motor Speedway and pray for Joe Gibbs Racing.
Racing critics tend to speak in broad negative strokes. Such as, the handicap division stinks behind Horse of the Year Curlin. Or the 3-year-old division is terrible other than Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown.
With the football season opener around the corner, UNLV sophomore Quinton Pointer has had trouble sleeping.
Imagine Michael Phelps in 36 years making a few bucks working as a “coach” for a national hotel chain’s promotion to find the “fittest couple.”
The trial for the couple accused of killing a toddler and dumping her body in a trash bin was postponed for a week because of a scheduling conflict.
In the basement of a prestigious sports school for Chinese youth here Wednesday, I watched young men compete in wushu. It is a martial arts tradition that includes more acrobatic jumps and movements compared to traditional styles.
Illegal immigration might have become a back-burner issue to some politicians, but a new poll shows the issue remains a hot topic with Southern Nevada voters.
ELDORADO, Texas — Three new indictments were issued Thursday against members of a polygamist sect raided in April.
You can’t see Iliza Shlesinger on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” anymore because she won the reality competition two weeks ago. But you still can see her anchoring a comic news show on TheStream.tv — in her underpants.
CARSON CITY — The smell of marijuana wafted through the air Thursday behind the state police training academy as law enforcement officers showed off a stash of 3,000 plants uprooted in Esmeralda County.
In recognition that many Clark County School District families are facing tough economic times, students’ supply lists come with a disclaimer: schools will provide the pencil and paper basics; other material purchases are optional.
TRUCKEE, Calif. — State wildlife officials in California are investigating whether a bear hit by a car near Lake Tahoe may have had its organs removed for sale on the black market.
CARSON CITY — The state won’t be setting up a hot line that would let people turn in their neighbors or anyone else who doesn’t put Nevada licenses plates on their cars after moving to the state, at least for now.
O.J. Simpson’s only remaining co-defendant made a last-ditch pitch Wednesday to persuade a judge to postpone the start of their armed robbery and kidnapping trial.
ELKO — An Elko High School graduate turned Mr. Hong Kong is choosing education over fame.
As teachers prepare their classrooms for the beginning of school Monday, a Review-Journal poll shows six in 10 likely Nevada voters support a proposal to increase the hotel room tax to generate more money for schools.
University system regents kicked the governor’s budget cuts to the curb and asked for more money Thursday, to the delight of college students who attended the morning meeting.
SOMEWHERE IN TIME BETWEEN QIN AND MING DYNASTIES — I blogged from the Great Wall on Thursday, sent the text via BlackBerry and stood beside the structure that is more than 2,000 years old in some places while watching people order Starbucks.
A battle over access to the personnel records of two federal agents involved in a recent undercover sting operation swung toward the prosecution Thursday, even after defense attorneys claimed the ruling could result in a mistrial.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama began airing a new television ad in Las Vegas on Thursday that criticizes Republican John McCain for supporting the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.