LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers have won their 16th NBA championship, dramatically rallying from a fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Boston Celtics 83-79 Thursday night in Game 7 of the NBA finals. Kobe Bryant scored 23 points despite 6-of-24 shooting while winning his fifth title with the Lakers, who repeated as NBA champions for the first time since winning three straight from 2000-02.
With his brother, right, and other family members attending, Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed Thursday night by a firing squad at the Utah State Prison in Salt Lake City.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The University of Utah accepted an invitation to become the 12th member of the newly expanded Pac-10 Conference on Thursday.
Penn National Gaming was granted approval for a Nevada gaming license today, clearing the way for the gaming company to quickly acquire a Las Vegas casino if the opportunity should arise.
Representatives of the Southern Nevada Mortgage Fraud Task Force gathered Thursday morning at the Lloyd George U.S. Courthouse to announce the regional results of a nationwide takedown dubbed Operation Stolen Dreams.
GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) — Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water off Florida beaches, like forest animals fleeing a fire. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again.
Boulder City police say they found about 5 pounds of methamphetamine and arrested a Phoenix man during a traffic stop on a highway outside Las Vegas.
The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled the state Parole Board properly considered the criminal history of an inmate who was denied parole in the 1984 slaying of Pamela Leavitt in Las Vegas.
