Conor McGregor celebrated his 25th birthday in Las Vegas last week being driven around town by UFC president Dana White in his Ferrari.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Giancarlo Alvarado
(4-0); Aces, Brett Lorin (0-2)
Raise your glasses, shout out cheers and sing a British pub song — the royal family got 8 pounds 6 ounces bigger on Monday.
Fresno State senior Derek Carr heads the list of impressive Mountain West quarterbacks this season. He was the conference Offensive Player of the Year last season, passing for 4,104 yards and 37 touchdowns, and was chosen by the media to repeat that honor this fall.
As Jay Neal sang, danced and sometimes kicked his feet in the air as Fagin in the Rainbow Company’s production of “Oliver!” in late 2011, few in the audience were aware he had skipped a chemotherapy treatment to sustain his energy level.
U.S. sales of previously occupied homes slipped in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.08 million but remain near a 3½-year high.
As Nevada’s Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital works to correct deficiencies and broaden services for the mentally ill, officials at other valley hospitals struggling under the burden of a patient population they’re ill-equipped to serve worry that too little is being done too slowly.
Among the 28 players at USA Basketball’s minicamp Monday at the Mendenhall Center, none drew a larger media crowd than DeMarcus Cousins.
A 6-year-old boy who survived being buried for three hours after a sand dune collapsed is moving around the Chicago hospital where he is recovering and could be released soon, his doctor said Monday.
The Clark County Museum wants people to walk a mile in other people’s shoes — and hats. As a matter of fact, it wants people to explore more than a century’s worth of American footwear and headwear with its upcoming exhibit.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Henderson and Las Vega announced July 10 that they are planning to merge into the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada with Ken Rubeli as director.
Johnnie Walker RV, a local family-owned recreation vehicle business, recently attracted national attention on Animal Planet’s cable television show “Tanked.” On the show, Las Vegas-based Acrylic Tank Manufacturing constructed a fish tank inside a trailer to celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary.
Kick. Push. Coast. Turn. Heels down. Chest up. Jump. Hands out. Bend knees. Land. Hands down. Kick. Push. Coast.
North Las Vegas 22-year-old Arthur D. Whigham makes his writing debut with the novel “Exodus.” The book follows the adventures of Jack Russell, a young man who always knew he was different. Jack was intellectually advanced, could read at 2 and was watched over as a child by a transparent man in a top hat whom no one else could see. Jack’s uniqueness was confirmed in high school when he was thrown into a supernatural world full of angels and demons.
It took awhile, but officer Jacquar Roston admitted his mistakes in the November shooting of an unarmed man.
The other day, you couldn’t find your shoes.
MILWAUKEE — A 76-year-old Milwaukee man who fatally shot his unarmed teenage neighbor was sentenced to life in prison Monday, days after telling the court he killed the boy for justice because he believed he stole his shotguns.
A vacant house erupted in flames Monday afternoon near Maryland Parkway and St. Louis Avenue.
Zions Bancorp, parent company of Nevada State Bank, posted second-quarter earnings Monday that missed Wall Street expectations, as the company’s expenses and total loans increased.
Literary announcements of note include Henderson author Ken Hinman planning to bring the tractor that inspired his picture book “Jimmy John the Tractor” on a visit from 10 to 10:45 a.m. July 24 to the Gibson Library, 100 W. Lake Mead Parkway.
Officials say the front landing gear of a plane arriving at New York’s LaGuardia Airport collapsed as the aircraft touched down on the runway. The Federal Aviation Administration says the plane landed safely.
Former National League MVP Ryan Braun was suspended without pay for the rest of the season and the postseason Monday in the first penalty following Major League Baseball’s investigation of the Florida clinic accused of distributing performance-enhancing drugs.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Environment Department on Monday dealt a new blow to a Roswell company’s hard-fought attempts to begin slaughtering horses next month, declining a request to renew Valley Meat Co.’s wastewater discharge permit.
WASHINGTON — Alasia Smith was bullied by a girl she thought was a friend. Jordan Anderson was the victim of a stepfather’s violence.
The city of Henderson has issued a call for artists to participate in its second annual SuperRun Hubcap Art Gallery, which is scheduled to be displayed Sept. 27-29 at the Henderson Convention Center, 200 S. Water St.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A former chairman of the Indian tribe that owns the Foxwoods Resort Casino improperly charged $80,000 to a tribe-issued credit card for a limousine service to shuttle his mother to doctor’s appointments, a prosecutor said Monday at the opening of a federal theft trial.
New funding will help renew a program that helps support Nevada educators in science-based environmental education.
Since the economy tanked, steel girders of the Shops at Summerlin have been standing like silent sentinels just south of Red Rock Resort. That will change in the coming months, according to Tom Warden of The Howard Hughes Corp.