■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Rafael Montero (2-2); Aces, Mike Boisinger (4-4)
Wilkinson (Wash.) rallied for six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning Thursday to beat the Southern Nevada Bulls of Arbor View High 6-3 in the Connie Mack Western Regional baseball tournament in Bellevue, Wash.
The competition is going to be fierce for spots on next year’s USA Basketball squad that will compete in the FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain. So Kyrie Irving decided he had better get a head start at making a positive impression.
Police say a two-man crime wave has been trying to turn the lights out on downtown revitalization.
Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is holding what authorities have said is a gun in several surveillance photos that were released Thursday and had been recorded hours before — and minutes after — his friend was shot to death.
WASHINGTON — For a kid who’s still only 20 and had yet to hit a game-ending homer in his nascent career, Bryce Harper sure inspired a lot of confidence in his teammates as he walked to the plate with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.
SALT LAKE CITY — A young Mormon missionary and cancer survivor from Utah who lived through the Spain train crash that left 80 dead said Thursday he remembers the train lifting off the tracks “like a roller coaster” before he blacked out and awoke to a “gruesome” scene.
Nevada’s Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital will no longer be accredited by a national hospital accrediting organization effective Friday, state officials said late Thursday afternoon.
Las Vegas gets about 40 million visitors a year, including a famous sports visitor scheduled for a whirlwind tour of less than 24 hours early next week.
UNLV interim athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy is reorganizing the athletic department, changing positions throughout and instituting substantial pay cuts.
A Southwest Airlines jet that made a hard landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport touched down on its front nose wheel before the sturdier main landing gear in back touched down, federal investigators said Thursday.
Las Vegas Events, the nonprofit that recruits, promotes and organizes events in the Sin City market, paid $75,000 to sponsor the recent NBA Summer League and also invested resources as a partner in putting on this week’s USA Basketball event in Las Vegas.
The Department of Motor Vehicles is celebrating Nevada’s 150th anniversary with special license plates.
Embattled Family Court Judge Steven Jones is mounting an 11th-hour campaign to put off a hearing next week before the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline on allegations he mishandled a romantic relationship with a prosecutor who appeared before him.
The incessant hum coming from the trees is the sound of male Apache cicadas in search of mates — and the unofficial soundtrack of summer in Las Vegas.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Pope Francis showed his rebel side Thursday, urging young Catholics to shake up the church and make a “mess” in their dioceses by going out into the streets to spread the faith. It’s a message he put into practice by visiting one of Rio’s most violent slums and opening the church’s World Youth Day on a rain-soaked Copacabana Beach.
Four Russian nationals and a Ukrainian have been charged with running a sophisticated hacking organization that penetrated computer networks of more than a dozen major American and international corporations over seven years, stealing and selling at least 160 million credit and debit card numbers, resulting in losses of hundreds of millions of dollars.
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain — By all accounts, the train was going way too fast as it curled around a gentle bend. Then in an instant, one car tumbled off the track, followed by the rest of the locomotive, which seemed to come apart like a zipper being pulled.
A recent series of violent robberies largely targeting the elderly have taken place throughout the Las Vegas Valley, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Chapman Chrysler Jeep and Chapman Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram partnered with the United Service Organizations’ Las Vegas Center for the first “Jam A Jeep” program to gather items that the center could distribute to servicemen, servicewomen and veterans.
NEW YORK — Already in trouble with Major League Baseball, Alex Rodriguez now faces a penalty from his own team.
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada said Thursday that athletes and “Hollywood celebrities” being recruited to promote the new health care law are little different from those who once used their fame to sell cigarettes to unsuspecting consumers.
“The flavor of the food is very loud. It hits you,” said Steve Piamchuntar of the dishes at the small plates fusion restaurant Nosh & Swig. “It’s not subtle. It’s very strong and straight to the point.” The former executive chef at the Stirling Club at Turnberry Place opened Nosh & Swig in December with his wife, Lorie.
Mercedes-Benz of Henderson recently awarded an Apple iPad to Jerry Sakura, a retired international business executive, during a drawing at the KWNR Country in the Park event at Mountain’s Edge master-planned community.
Robert and Theresa Martinez of Las Vegas recently purchased a 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe from Planet Hyundai Centennial.
Land Rover Las Vegas recently donated a yurt to the Las Vegas Area Council of Boy Scouts of America.
Findlay Chevrolet employees Tony Tonkin and Mark Rolands are best friends, and for good reason.
The second juror to speak publicly told ABC News in an interview made available Thursday that she feels George Zimmerman got away with murder for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, but that there wasn’t enough evidence at trial to convict him under Florida law.