With the focus of horse racing on the lead-up to the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita on Oct. 24 and 25, it’s easy to overlook the exploits of Peppers Pride.
When Steve Fairchild became Colorado State’s football coach last year, he refused to watch video of last season’s games.
Westerns were a cornerstone of living room entertainment during the 1950s and ’60s, and on the big screen before that.
SALT LAKE CITY — Louie Sakoda kicked a 37-yard field goal as time expired to cap an 11-point rally over the final 89 seconds and give No. 15 Utah a 31-28 victory over Oregon State on Thursday night.
One week after making a mockery of the UNLV defense, UNR quarterback Colin Kaepernick is taking on a more obvious lightweight in what should be even more of a one-sided fight.
When Arbor View and Legacy met Oct. 25, neither team had won a Northwest League game.
For those who were wondering, that wasn’t me you saw streaking at Arbor View or Desert Oasis last week.
Rod Fuller’s NHRA championship dream was dashed on the last pass of the 2007 season, but there won’t be any drama like that this year.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., will vote for the current version of a $700 billion economic recovery package when it comes before the House today, her office said.
Josh Duhamel, John O’Hurley and George Lopez will be among the celebrity lineup for the Oct. 15 Pro-Am for the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.
WASHINGTON — When Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Peake visited the North Las Vegas site for the VA’s newest hospital in August, he declared it would be the “crown jewel” of the agency’s health care system.
In intimate letters written to girlfriends, accused child molester Chester Stiles admits he’s a pedophile who sexually assaulted young girls.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — It’s 20 days in jail in Arizona and three years of probation for a Pahrump woman who guzzled mouthwash and became legally intoxicated before leaving the scene of a traffic accident she caused in mid-June in downtown Kingman.
MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. — More than a year after the disappearance of millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, searchers have found the wreckage of his plane in the rugged Sierra Nevada along with a bone fragment suitable for DNA testing.
Theodore Lee of Urban Land of Nevada must be nursing a wicked headache after tangling with University Chancellor James Rogers, his son Perry Rogers and Andre Agassi in a busted business deal over the future of the All-American Sports Park.
To prosecutors, O.J. Simpson was the criminal mastermind who planned and led the hotel room hold up to steal back his sports memorabilia.
Two iron workers were taken to University Medical Center Thursday morning after being injured by a large beam at the Strip’s Fountainebleau construction project.
WACO, Texas — A man who tied the knot with his girlfriend in Las Vegas before divorcing his estranged wife was surprised when he was charged with bigamy, saying he didn’t think it “was going to be a real marriage.”
WASHINGTON — Joe Egan’s dying wish was granted over the weekend, when the ashes of the attorney who led Nevada’s fight against nuclear waste were scattered at Yucca Mountain.
Help for schools tagged as “needing improvement” under the federal No Child Left Behind Act segued to a no-consultant-left-behind discussion Thursday when Clark County School Board members approved payment of $2,200 per day to each of two out-of-state contractors.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — A corrections officer died while helping battle a wildfire in western Arizona Wednesday. The Arizona Department of Corrections said officer Douglas Falconer, 46, collapsed Wednesday afternoon while supervising inmates assigned to the “Sacramento Fire” burning on the Havasu Wildlife Refuge near the Colorado River community of Topock.
He’s no longer a presidential candidate, but former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney still keeps a schedule that would put a presidential contender to shame.
RENO — The state attorney general’s office has closed a five-month investigation into claims of fraud against the University of Nevada, Reno, including allegations of misuse of federal grants.
Earl Johnson, former general manager of the Las Vegas Review-Journal during the 1980s, died Wednesday.
Some of the biggest theaters in town are turning to family fare. Donny and Marie are playing the Flamingo. (Look in today’s Neon for a review.) And it looks like “The Lion King” is headed for the Mandalay Bay showroom next year.
CARSON CITY — Unemployment in Nevada will jump to an average monthly rate of 8.6 percent next year and remain at that rate in 2010, state economists told the Employment Security Council on Thursday.
Those who want to vote in the general election have until Saturday to register at locations other than the Clark County elections offices.