The man behind KC and the Sunshine Band once came within a few feet of death in Vegas, which would have robbed us of the creator of “That’s the Way (I Like It)” and “(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty.”
The Clark County coroner’s office again will be performing autopsies for Nye County.
Mark Heisler has seen Donald Sterling work, seen the genius that is Sterling in the world of real estate, seen a man who when it comes to closing another deal within his development empire, resembles a seasoned conductor directing an orchestra.
Easily overlooked in the midst of all the government scandals of the past couple of months is this not-so-thrilling fact: ObamaCare takes full effect in just six months, whether we’re ready or not and whether we like it or not.
When last we checked in with the financially strapped city of North Las Vegas in 2012, it was suspending collective bargaining agreements with public safety agencies under a highly questionable interpretation of state law that was ripe for overturning by the courts.
At a time when government overreach is all the rage, the Clark County Commission is taking a restrained approach to easing sidewalk congestion on the Las Vegas Strip. That’s a good thing.
If you ever wondered what it’s like to live like an All-Star and a Grammy-award nominee, wonder no more.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: Bees, Daniel Stange (2-0); 51s, Rob Carson (1-2)
The U.S. Senate will act to revise the Voting Rights Act after the Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a key part of the law, according to Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge on Monday ordered the state to move several thousand inmates out of two California prisons because they are at a high risk of contracting a potentially deadly airborne fungus.
After winning the largest cash prize in poker history — $18,346,673 — in last year’s inaugural Big One for One Drop $1 million buy-in tournament at the World Series of Poker, Antonio Esfandiari spearheaded a trip to Central America to see work being done by the water awareness charity organized by Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte.
Archaeologists continue working to recover human skeletal remains disturbed by a paving project on a dirt road that leads to the Skywalk at the Hualapai Tribe’s Grand Canyon West tourist attraction in northwest Arizona.
It was almost five years ago when LaQuan Phillips lay motionless on Green Valley’s football field. On Tuesday, Phillips walked proudly, albeit with a slight limp, into the National Athletic Trainers Association conference at Mandalay Bay to share his story.
Friends, neighbors and Nevada National Guard leaders mourned Tuesday the loss of two citizen-soldiers who were killed when a single-engine airplane they were flying while off duty crashed west of Boulder City Municipal Airport on Sunday.
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are split over the immigration bill steaming toward approval at week’s end, a divide that renders the ultimate fate of White House-backed legislation unpredictable in the House and complicates the party’s ability to broaden its appeal among Hispanic voters.
It took prosecutors almost eight weeks and 70 witnesses to present their criminal case against Dr. Dipak Desai and nurse anesthetist Ronald Lakeman.
The numbers don’t lie. Speedway Motorsports Inc., parent company of Las Vegas Motor Speedway, has watched revenues, including ticket sales, drop annually for five years.
Two men were shot and one arrested in after an argument at an auto body shop Monday.
NEW YORK — With his broad shoulders and big smile, Anthony Bennett flashes a striking resemblance to a basketball star who stole the show here 22 years ago.
A Jesus statue that has for six decades been a curiosity to skiers as they cruise down a popular run at a northwest Montana ski resort will not be evicted from federal land, a judge ruled Tuesday.
The chief financial officer for Las Vegas Sands Corp. is leaving the company but will stay on as a consultant over a six-month period until a replacement is named.
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators including Dean Heller of Nevada on Tuesday proposed an overhaul to the housing finance system that would gradually eliminate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored mortgage guarantee giants, and shift more mortgage and credit risk to the private sector.
Volunteers gathered before 5 a.m. June 13 at Red Rock Canyon to help measure and band hummingbirds as part of the Hummingbird Monitoring Network’s seasonal coordinated monitoring program. Birds were weighed, measured and tagged to help further knowledge about the tiny creatures, including their life expectancy.
Several pieces of memorabilia from the long-running TV series “Bonanza” are going up for auction in Reno, including the branding iron used in the opening credits.
Follow the link for Nevada Youth Baseball Association American Legion standings as of June 25.
Follow the link for Southern Nevada Connie Mack Baseball Association standings as of June 25.
On Wednesday, barring a reprieve, Kimberly McCarthy will become the 500th convicted killer in Texas to receive a lethal injection. While some states have halted the practice in recent years because of concern about wrongful convictions, executions continue at a steady pace in many others.
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the first official acknowledgment of the whereabouts of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Tuesday and promptly rejected U.S. pleas to turn him over.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
Fiery wrong-way crash kills 2 on 215 Beltway in northwest Las Vegas
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school
Mystery deepens: Monolith outside Vegas may have been in desert for years
Woman arrested after police say she climbed on Reno craps table, threw chips at people