Celebrities and Cirque du Soleil performers joined the Jackson family on the red carpet at Mandalay Bay Saturday night for the premiere of Cirque’s Michael Jackson ONE.
WASHINGTON — It took 50 years for American attitudes about marijuana to zigzag from the paranoia of “Reefer Madness” to the excesses of Woodstock back to the hard line of “Just Say No.”
Inbee Park was mad, even if it didn’t show in her always placid demeanor. She had made bogey, her third straight, on a hole she thought she should have birdied, and the world’s top-ranked player was looking a bit shaky.
PHILADELPHIA — A judge has ordered rapper Meek Mill to attend etiquette classes and notify his probation officer before he takes any trips outside of the commonwealth.
MINNEAPOLIS — For the first 20 years of his life, almost every time Shabazz Muhammad turned around on a basketball court, his father was right there behind him.
A 55-year-old man from Pahrump turned himself in after being involved in a fatal hit-and-run in southwest Las Vegas on Friday morning, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
Some people are natural storytellers. For everyone else, there’s Histuffy.com.
As fierce as The Black Dahlia Murder was, the band had nothing on the Hades-worthy heat found at the Warped Tour on Friday at the Silverton. “Stay alive,” enjoined Trevor Strnad, frontman for the death metal band.
Nevadans are facing a Monday deadline to register their off-highway vehicles under a new state law, but only a fraction of owners have done so.
A North Las Vegas police sergeant who heads the police supervisors union filed a lawsuit against the police chief, city manager and city Thursday, according to court documents.
A plan to leverage the city of North Las Vegas’ power of eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages and sell them back to homeowners at a lower price is seen as a financial lifeline for some desperate residents.
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — Anthony Bennett wasn’t really all that interested in playing basketball. Yeah, it was cool dunking on guys, and a great way to make new friends after moving from Toronto to the city’s suburbs.
BASTIA, Corsica — Riders at the Tour de France know to expect the unexpected. But nothing could have prepared them for the mayhem that turned Saturday’s first stage of the 100th Tour into a demolition derby on two wheels.
A Colorado City, Ariz., man awoke from his sleep to see his estranged wife hovering over him and attempting to inject him with six needles full of insulin, according to the Town Marshal’s Office.
Washoe County health officials have identified a third case of hepatitis A as part of a multi-state outbreak linked to frozen berries sold by Costco.
Vice President Joe Biden has asked Ecuador to turn down an asylum request from National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, the country’s president said Saturday.
Five reasons to watch Brazil play Spain on Sunday in the final of the Confederations Cup, a warmup tournament for next year’s World Cup:
Facebook is pulling ads from pages that contain violence or sexual content. The social network said that on Monday, it will expand its definition of pages and groups that are too controversial to carry advertisements.
At the moment, no woman seems capable of providing much of a challenge to Serena Williams on a tennis court. So how about playing an exhibition match against a man? Andy Murray, for example?
After being interviewed by a federal immigration officer earlier this year, Catriona Dowling was told her Irish spouse would have been given a green card – if she were a man.
A previously unknown species of bird has been discovered in Cambodia, not in some remote jungle but in the country’s capital, researchers announced Wednesday.
More than 22 million Egyptians have signed a petition calling for the country’s Islamist president to step down, the youth group leading the signature campaign said Saturday on the eve of mass protests aimed at forcing Mohammed Morsi from office.
Ford is recalling just over 13,000 Explorer, Taurus and Lincoln MKS cars and SUVs because the child safety locks may not work on the rear doors.
Hundreds of relatives, friends and well-wishers have wept together and hugged at the funeral of a semi-pro football player whose killing led to murder and weapons charges against former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez.
Paying tribute to his personal hero, President Barack Obama met privately Saturday with Nelson Mandela’s family as the world anxiously awaited news on the condition of the ailing 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader.
BALTIMORE — In the 15 years between a shotgun blast that ravaged the bottom half of Richard Norris’ face and the face transplant that ended a hermit-like life for him, the man from rural southwest Virginia faced cruelty from strangers, fought addiction and contemplated suicide.
The House and its conservative majority are coming under pressure to act after the Senate passed a landmark immigration bill opening the door to U.S. citizenship to millions while pouring billions of dollars into securing the border with Mexico.
The SWAT officers involved in Thursday’s shooting near Westcliff Drive and Rainbow Boulevard have been identified.
In 2011, a BBCOR bat reduced the sweet spot from 5 inches to 3 and the exit speed of a ball by 5 percent. In other words, the sweet spot of a baseball bat is deadened. And for some, like UNLV coach Tim Chambers, it has changed the college game for the better.