O.J. Simpson’s lead trial lawyer, Yale Galanter, was more interested in getting paid $500,000 than in properly defending his client, according to testimony at a post-conviction hearing Monday in Las Vegas.
The mercury soared in the valley on Monday when temperatures hit the triple digits for the first time in 2013.
It will be a clash of personalities on Sunday’s finale of “All-Star Celebrity Apprentice” — pitting Vegas star Penn Jillette against country singer Trace Adkins. Both are trying to sell the most ice cream.
First-year coach Erik Davis figured it would be difficult to turn around the Mojave boys volleyball program, inheriting a team that had a combined 1-31 record the previous two seasons.
Middleweight challenger Chris Weidman’s preparation for his title shot against longtime UFC champion Anderson Silva started before he even knew he would fight in a cage for a living.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: Isotopes, Matt Palmer (1-1); 51s, Dylan Owen (0-3)
The story told Monday by Patty Aspinwall mirrored fellow victims’ recollections about what happened to their bodies after they visited Dr. Dipak Desai’s Las Vegas endoscopy clinics.
It’s not the wine talking. Those prices really might be creeping up on you. Wine prices in U.S. restaurants have been rising steadily since the last quarter of 2012, with family dining and white-tablecloth establishments seeing the biggest increases.
On Monday at TPC Summerlin, Derek Ernst kept his U.S. Open dream alive by winning one of two spots in a three-man playoff on the second extra hole to be part of a six-man contingent advancing from the Las Vegas qualifying round.
Lorenzo Fertitta, Ultimate Fighting Championship chief executive and chairman, is leading a contingent of UFC staffers and fighters Tuesday on a one-day tour of three upstate New York cities to extol the economic virtues of hosting a UFC event.
After watching Foothill’s Taylor Montgomery and Andrew Chu dominate the field at the Sunrise Region golf tournament last week, Coronado coach Joe Sawaia has an idea of how his team can top the Falcons and keep its streak of state championships alive.
Danica Patrick’s marketing machine includes bikinis and racy Go Daddy TV commercials, but 15-year-old car racer Kayli Barker of North Las Vegas is building her motorsport brand in a much more wholesome, girl-next-door way.
Two higher education institutions in Nevada have joined forces to prepare a more qualified nursing workforce in the state and address an expected shortage of these professionals in 2020.
If Chuck Muth has his way, Las Vegas residents will see the sun rise over Mount Reagan each and every morning in America.
CARSON CITY – Gov. Brian Sandoval said Monday he is proposing to allocate the $60.5 million in increased tax revenue projected by the Economic Forum to public education priorities, upping the total added spending to K-12 in the new budget to $484 million.
CARSON CITY – Hours after Democrats proposed a $255 million increase in payroll taxes Monday Gov. Brian Sandoval and Republican leaders declared the plan dead on arrival.
NEW ORLEANS — Police are identifying a suspect in the shooting of 19 people during a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans.
Jury deliberations in the Richard Suen case were interrupted on Monday afternoon after one of the jurors sent Clark County District Judge Rob Bare a note asking to be kept separate from the rest of the jury.
Nevada higher education officials, along with U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., on Monday announced Nevada will receive a $20 million National Science Foundation grant to further the study of solar energy in the desert.
It’s official: the Las Vegas 51s have new local owners.
PHILADELPHIA — An abortion doctor was convicted Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy, “house of horrors” clinic.
WASHINGTON — An officer from Nellis Air Force Base whose jet crashed in Laos 40 years ago — but whose remains were recovered only recently — was recognized in a weekend ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
The nonprofit Nevada Military Support Alliance gave a $250,000 check to the Fisher House Foundation during Saturday’s gala fund-raiser at Red Rock Resort.
The man who jumped off the Hoover Dam bypass bridge on Saturday morning has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
State gaming regulators are looking into the relationship between 2-week-old Internet poker website Ultimate Poker and an unlicensed service provider used to identify new players.
After first saying he wanted to plead guilty in his capital murder case, Strip shooting suspect Ammar Harris reversed course at his arraignment Monday and pleaded not guilty to all charges.
President Barack Obama said Monday he will not tolerate political bias at the Internal Revenue Service and promised to get to the bottom of the agency’s admitted targeting of conservative groups.
Affinity Gaming gained limited breathing space Monday in its on-going legal battle with largest shareholder Z Capital Partners.