Three Southern Nevada high school players earned national honors from US Lacrosse on Monday.
The UNLV women’s soccer team opens next season by playing eight of its first 10 games on the road.
The Las Vegas Wranglers released their protected list of 17 players, which included two goalies, four defensemen and 11 forwards.
Former UNLV standout and PGA Tour veteran Charley Hoffman secured a spot in next week’s U.S. Open by winning the sectional qualifier Monday in Columbus, Ohio. Hoffman shot a 65-68 — 133 over 36 holes, tops in the field of 120 players vying for five spots.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Carlos Torres (5-3); Grizzlies, Mike Kickham (3-5)
Top pitching prospect Aaron Blair, who went to Spring Valley High School, tested positive for the banned substance Adderall, according to a Baseball America report.
If you’re looking for easy money, but you can’t qualify for a federal farm subsidy, you have another option: score a gig as a municipal election poll worker.
All of a sudden, the TV ad placed by Mayors Against Illegal Guns became relevant.
The Life Is Beautiful music, art and food festival, which takes over 15 square blocks of downtown Las Vegas on Oct. 26 and 27, will feature local breakout bands The Killers and Imagine Dragons among its top-billed acts.
The five bills making up the state’s two-year $6.6 billion general fund budget were passed by the Legislature on the last day of the session Monday with plenty of time to spare.
As pro bowler Walter Ray Williams Jr. attempts to win probably the senior tour’s top tournament, he enters this week with plenty on his mind.
The Monday revote on naming interim Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky to the position permanently ended the same way as the original May 21 vote — with a unanimous decision to hand him the reins of the nation’s fifth-largest district.
MIAMI (AP) — Their season, their legacy, their reign atop the NBA was all at stake, and the Miami Heat responded to all of that in a manner befitting champions. With a blowout.
Macau gaming revenues grew 13.5 percent in May to $3.7 billion as the Chinese casino market recorded its second-largest single-month collection.
The anger and jealousy Manuel Mata III directed at his girlfriend Maria Flores was no secret to those close to couple.
It was once a mining company with a significant presence in Nevada. But during the past decade, Nevada Gold & Casinos Inc. sold off its mining assets to focus on its growing and profitable gaming business, acquiring casinos and slot routes in South Dakota and Washington.
With his signature Monday, President Barack Obama put the finishing touches on a new Stolen Valor law that makes it a crime to lie about receiving a military medal and targets people who try to profit by falsely passing themselves off as war heroes.
After primary municipal elections around the Las Vegas Valley in which most incumbents won re-election, only North Las Vegas and Henderson voters will go to the polls in just two races for Tuesday’s general election.
A former Hells Angels motorcycle club president was sentenced last week to 46 months in prison after pleading guilty to cocaine trafficking charges.
Casino dealers at two of the Strip’s most popular resorts have overwhelmingly voted to join the Transport Workers Union, a union official said Monday.
Clark County school support staff voted down everything that their local union leaders sought at a frenzied Thursday meeting, including contract terms with a proposed 2 percent cost of living raise and a move to break with the National Education Association, according to the Education Support Employees Association’s website.
When 75-year-old Jean Main was killed in her home May 22, she was struck with a pistol, shot in the head and left for dead.
Former Broadway star Pia Zadora was arrested Saturday on charges she scratched and choked her autistic son, but the hours-long SWAT standoff that stemmed from the call was initiated by her husband, an off-duty Las Vegas police officer.
A veteran nurse anesthetist who worked for Dr. Dipak Desai during the 2007 hepatitis C outbreak had trouble Monday recalling on the witness stand damaging information she provided Las Vegas police about his injection practices.
If worry about skin cancer doesn’t make you slather on sunscreen, maybe vanity will: New research provides some of the strongest evidence to date that near-daily sunscreen use can slow the aging of your skin.
Super Summer Theatre opened its 38th season with special performances of showtunes from Broadway and Hollywood May 17 and 18.
UNLV President Neal Smatresk might not receive a pay increase as the state’s Board of Regents consider his contract renewal.
— The Clark County Museum, 1830 S. Boulder Highway, is open daily from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. except Christmas and New Year’s Day. The exhibit “Cowboys and Indians: Myth and Reality” is scheduled to be on display through June 30. Admission is $2 for adults and $1 for seniors and children. Call 702-455-7955.
The economic recovery on the Strip is expected to remain sluggish this year, brought on by an oversupply of hotel rooms, analysts believe.
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