PHILADELPHIA — There’s no telling when we’ll see the World Series again. Rain, rain made it go away Monday.
Anderson Silva, among the best and most dominant strikers in mixed martial arts, went long stretches without doing much of anything against overmatched challenger Patrick Cote on Saturday night.
On the November ballot, education activists are asking voters in Clark and Washoe counties nicely — please approve a 3 percentage point increase of the room tax to better fund public schools.
A 9-month-old baby was left alone in a stroller for more than an hour outside a casino last week while his parents gambled, Las Vegas police said Monday.
Eighty-six-year-old Pearl Harbor survivor Clifton Dohrmann described it as “a portrayal of the true American spirit.”
For years, the growing number of civil lawsuits filed in Clark County has overwhelmed the court system. It now can take more than three years for a civil complaint to reach trial, officials said.
CARSON CITY — An attorney for convicted killer Chaz Higgs will argue before the Nevada Supreme Court on Nov. 4 that there was insufficient evidence to convict Higgs of murdering his wife, former state Controller Kathy Augustine.
CARSON CITY — The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada has asked the Justice Department to help ensure that overseas voters who faced delays in getting absentee ballots from Washoe County election officials are able to vote.
The wife of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama spoke to about 3,000 people in Doolittle Park in the heart of Las Vegas’ historically black neighborhood Monday night.
One week from today, either Barack Obama or John McCain will head to his rightful place at Madame Tussauds wax museum in The Venetian. The candidates’ “clay heads” are sitting in London, waiting to be fleshed out after voters do their thing.
A 40-year-old Las Vegas Valley man was arrested on a murder charge after a 2-year-old child died after being in his care in August, police said Monday.
One Las Vegas Valley juvenile and two Northern Nevada juveniles were rescued from child prostitution in a four-day national sweep of 27 cities, an FBI spokesman said Monday.
Charles Jones knew he wouldn’t be able to kick his drug habit and get off the streets if he continued receiving his $802 Social Security check in a single monthly sum.
A Tennessee truck driver who obtained confidential gaming documents and tried to use the information to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from Las Vegas hotel-casinos is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 30, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
In a community built by larger-than-life characters and glorified carnival barkers, this is the quietest big story I’ve written in a long time.
With the election still a week away, nearly a quarter of the Nevada electorate has already cast ballots, according to the secretary of state.
The race in the 3rd Congressional District, in which Democratic state Sen. and UNLV professor Dina Titus challenges three-term incumbent Republican Jon Porter, remains tight as it goes down to the wire. Last Thursday, the two candidates participated in their final televised debate.
The final week of the election is upon us with a whirlwind of last-minute campaign calls, mail, commercials and door-to-door lobbying.
Gov. Jim Gibbons and state lawmakers can quit worrying about the state’s massive revenue shortfall and the souring national economy.
For the second straight quarter, Penn National Gaming executives hinted they are casino shopping in Las Vegas but no deals are pending.
HOUSTON — Pump prices continued to tumble in the past week, falling more than 25 cents to a national average of $2.656 a gallon, new government figures show. In some places, gasoline is now selling for less than $2 a gallon.
The proposed $5.8 billion buyout of Embarq Corp., the dominant local phone company serving Southern Nevada, will not affect rates customers pay for basic telephone service, state consumer advocate Eric Witkoski said Monday.
The number of people flying to and from Las Vegas fell 13.2 percent in September to 3.37 million, the largest year-over-year decline since the months following Sept. 11, 2001, and the 11th consecutive monthly dip.
Los Angeles-based City National Corp. announced Monday that the federal government has given preliminary approval to buy as much as $395 million in senior preferred shares and warrants as part of the U.S. Treasury’s capital purchase program.