Near the end of his sophomore year at Arizona State, J.J. Sferra was ready to call it quits on his baseball career. He had grown tired of the game he grew up playing.
Las Vegas police arrested a 23-year-old man this week for the fatal shooting outside of a bar early Saturday morning.
Health officials in Las Vegas say four more school-age children and one adult tested positive for swine flu virus, bringing the number of confirmed cases in Nevada to 21.
The Navy helicopter pilot who smashed the cone of silence around the 1991 Tailhook convention at the Las Vegas Hilton and changed the way the military handled women’s claims of sexual abuse is now a yoga teacher.
CARSON CITY — An Assembly-approved bill to let some patients seek unlimited damages in medical malpractice lawsuits was being held up in the Senate in apparent retaliation for an Assembly committee chairman’s decision to sit on two Senate-passed construction defect bills.
It could have been worse, so there is relief among many in the state’s higher education community. There will not be massive layoffs. Important programs probably won’t be lost in their entirety. Students will not be forking over twice as much to go to school next year, as some feared they would.
When Las Vegas Police officer John Pelletier was traveling on Summerlin Parkway in 2007, a driver headed toward him lost control of her sport utility vehicle and flipped it several times.
The mystery of Danny Gans’ death remains almost two weeks after he died in his home, leaving rumors to fill the information void.
Claudine Williams, the first woman to run a Strip casino and considered one of the pioneers who shaped the gaming industry and Las Vegas, died Wednesday after a long illness. She was 88.
CARSON CITY — A Senate-passed bill to allow patrons to smoke in bars that serve food could die because there is not enough time to consider amendments, a chairman said Wednesday.
A man who died in a Jordanian prison in 2007 was “severely tortured and beaten to death,” his family said in a lawsuit seeking more than $100 million in damages from the Middle East country.
CARSON CITY — Having approved the major pieces of a $6.8 billion spending plan, lawmakers Wednesday turned their attention to how to pay for it, a negotiation that is expected to be as delicate as it is rushed.
CARSON CITY — Legislative leaders working on a plan for more than $1 billion in new revenue from various sources were criticized Wednesday by Gov. Jim Gibbons for making “covert deals” behind closed doors to raise taxes.
While small children tend to be shy around strangers, immigrant children are accustomed to speaking out as their parents’ communicators.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada Senate panel voted unanimously Wednesday for an Assembly-approved proposal allowing civil lawsuits when victims of childhood sex crimes learn there’s pornography depicting the crimes against them.
CARSON CITY — Despite what you may be hearing from Nevada legislators, raising taxes isn’t the solution to the state’s budget woes, according to a radio ad a conservative group is set to begin airing statewide today.
WASHINGTON — Gregory Jaczko, a former aide to Nevada Sen. Harry Reid and a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission who has expressed doubts about storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, was designated Wednesday as chairman of the federal nuclear safety agency.
The two candidates vying for a Las Vegas City Council seat staked out clear differences on growth, water and building a new city hall Wednesday evening, while agreeing on the need to look at consolidating government services.
Poker player Annie Duke said she can accept Donald Trump‘s “Celebrity Apprentice” choice, but she’s remains outraged by Joan Rivers‘ personal attack against poker players.
For most of this decade, they’ve been among Vegas’ consistently rising acts with their breathy, bipolar alt-rock. Currently, The Day After… are readying their latest — and best — release, “Black Heart Symphony,” which should propel them further still. Here’s what they have to say about their new record and more.
Mac King takes the stage, greets his audience with a friendly “Howdy,” and kicks off one of the 10 afternoon comedy/magic shows he performs each week at Harrah’s Las Vegas.
We’ve got God, guitars and gobstopping beats on tap for you in the latest roundup of primo Vegas releases:
For the first time in nearly 12 years, a rodeo will be at the center of Helldorado Days.
Eric Eberwein’s “Great Western Wanderlust” — winner of Las Vegas Little Theatre’s original play competition — takes us on a train journey from Illinois to California, and on a spiritual quest inside a troubled marriage.
