The headline across ESPN.com at 6 p.m. Thursday: “Stunner at No. 1.”
Las Vegas bantamweight boxer Devin Haney and Henderson lightweight Andres Cortes advanced to the semifinals of the Junior Olympic National Championships with wins Thursday in Mobile, Ala.
Liberty High throwers Ashlie Blake and Reno Tu’ufuli each won an event Wednesday at the World Youth Track and Field Trials in Edwardsville, Ill.
Wise Dan, the 2012 Horse of the Year, makes his third start of the season Saturday in the Grade 2 Firecracker Handicap at Churchill Downs. He has already won two Grade 1 stakes — the Makers 46 Mile and the Turf Classic — so this should be an easier task.
No industry is immune from the ebb and flow of the economy, and as a result, no tax is, either.
You know it’s a slow day at City Hall when your elected officials spend time working up a healthy food policy. Dog-catching procedures, well within the council’s scope, apparently required no further attention. So it was that on June 19, as reported by the Review-Journal’s Benjamin Spillman, the council served up a resolution on what it wants you to eat.
NEW YORK — Allergies were bothering Anthony Bennett from the time he woke up Thursday. He was sneezing and feeling miserable, and then suddenly, he had never felt better in his life.
Las Vegas student Astrid Silva perched in the gallery of the U.S. Senate on Thursday, looking down at the surreal scene of Sen. Harry Reid telling a packed chamber of senators and witnesses her life story.
The headaches surrounding the reopening of F Street are about to begin.
Construction of the $13.6 million project began weeks ago, but phase two and three are about to start. Those phases will require lane closures up above on Interstate 15 for the building of overpasses.
Gay marriage proponents marked another victory Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals from Nevada and Arizona involving the rights of same-sex couples.
NEW YORK — A year ago, if odds were put on a player from Las Vegas being the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft, Shabazz Muhammad would have been a heavy favorite.
The buy-in for today’s Ladies No-Limit Hold ’em Championship at the World Series of Poker at the Rio Convention Center is $1,000 for women and $10,000 for men, who are discouraged from entering the event.
Following seven hours of closing arguments, the jury late Thursday received the hepatitis C outbreak case against Dr. Dipak Desai and nurse anesthetist Ronald Lakeman.
Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky awarded a three-year contract by School Board
NEW YORK — Anthony Bennett was stunned at the start. David Stern had a big surprise at the finish.
Delta Academy, a Las Vegas charter school for students with behavioral, emotional and social challenges, will remain open for at least six more years despite posting poor student performance.
Paul Wilkes came to Las Vegas in 1971 as a 6-year-old and never left.
It’s going to be hot today. And tomorrow. And the next day and the next. Not just hot. Like, extremely hot. No. XX-TREEMELY HAWT, so hot you need to make up a new spelling to get your message across.
WASHINGTON — With a solemnity reserved for momentous occasions, the Senate passed historic legislation Thursday offering the priceless hope of citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in America’s shadows. The bill also promises a military-style effort to secure the long-porous border with Mexico.
“I’d like to do this thing drunk. Get hammered,” Terry Bradshaw says.
An eight-person jury on Thursday awarded giant distributor Southern Wine & Spirits of America Inc. nearly $1.1 million in punitive damages against two other companies that infringed upon several exclusive distribution deals, wrapping up a trial that began nearly a month ago.
Molycorp announced Thursday that the Securities and Exchange Commission had concluded a 10-month investigation into its financial statements without taking any enforcement action.
Indiana gaming regulators signed off on Pinnacle Entertainment’s $2.8 billion buyout of Ameristar Casinos on Thursday, putting the deal a step closer to completion.
The intra-family court fight between Las Vegas Sun publisher Brian Greenspun and his sister Susan Greenspun Fine apparently has been settled on undisclosed terms.
A long-awaited bill introduced in the U.S. Senate on Thursday charts a new path to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste, but to the chagrin of many Nevada leaders, it does not seal off the old path to Yucca Mountain.
Engineering company Halcrow Inc. has one less legal headache following a Thursday ruling by the Nevada Supreme Court concerning CityCenter’s unfinished Harmon Hotel tower.
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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