One by one, they stepped up to the mic and peppered Dana White with questions. The president of Ultimate Fighting Championship, the Las Vegas-based MMA fight promotions company, enjoyed swatting the questions over the fence like a big-leaguer in a tee-ball league.
It’s colorless, odorless and deadly, and safety officials say carbon monoxide poisoning likely contributed to more drowning deaths over the past decades than imagined.
His friends were going out that night, but Dana White chose to stay home.
This Fourth of July made me think about risk-takers, the positives and negatives about being one.
Chris Weidman, the unbeaten Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight contender, has insisted he would upset longtime champion Anderson Silva since the day their fight was announced.
An animal advocate says emergency responders were not well-prepared to help families on Mount Charleston with pets.
As more than 500 residents of Mount Charleston evacuated their homes while a blaze crept into the canyon, two American Red Cross shelters on either side of the Spring Mountains provide food, water and information.
PAHRUMP — Smelling of smoke and sweat, Capt. Randy Martinez’s five-man crew pull into Pahrump at 8:30 p.m. Friday, calling an end to a 16-hour day of firefighting. They trudge over to the town’s park where 400 firefighters have made camp to eat dinner in the dark.
It was Dipak Desai’s fault. It was always his fault.
Sometimes, things are better left to the professionals. Consider the case of Brian Read, a pitcher for the Seacoast Mavericks of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League, who attempted to tap into his inner Joey Chestnut but wound up almost choking to death and needing surgery.
At Tucson, Ariz., the Padres (49-40) were down to their last strike when pinch hitter Mike Wilson singled, scoring Dan Robertson and Gregorio Petit to extend their lead to 2½ games over the second-place 51s in the Pacific South Division.
Members of the Mitchell family said they had done nothing wrong when Henderson police broke into their two homes without warrants, according to a federal lawsuit.
Daniel Negreanu is a poker activist, championing any cause he believes will improve the game. The latest hot-button issue he is speaking out against is excessive time wasting. Or, as he calls it, tanking.
Green Valley Presbyterian Church, 1798 Wigwam Parkway, Henderson, will present “Jonathan Gorst: An Evening of Music” at 7:30 p.m. July 13. A goodwill offering will be accepted to benefit Henderson Presbyterian Church food bank, 702-454-8484.
Dwight Howard, the NBA’s most dominant and indecisive big man, who tired of Orlando and never loved Los Angeles, has made up his mind.
A small jet carrying six passengers suffered significant damage as it landed at McCarran International Airport on Friday night, according to an airport spokeswoman.
An unarmed security guard died Friday after an altercation with a man who now faces a murder charge, Las Vegas police said.
Death Valley to celebrate 100-year anniversary of the hottest day in recorded history — 134 degrees — and a crowd is expected.
A representative of Cirque du Soleil says “Ka” plans to remove its final battle scene, the same scene during which a performer died on June 29 after falling roughly 90 feet in front of a live audience.
A man was arrested Thursday evening in a shooting that left a victim in the hospital with a gunshot wound to the head, according to Las Vegas police.
Justin Jasper had a carload of guns, body armor and explosives when he was arrested this week near Washington University in Seattle. And he apparently had a plan: Do something in the West to support protestors demanding reform in Brazil.
A Las Vegas man was critically injured when his car crashed through two brick walls on Friday, according to police.
It might not surprise you to know, given the number of beer trucks making daily deliveries to casinos, bars, restaurants and taverns statewide, there are only a handful of states whose residents drink more beer on a per capita basis than Nevada, according to a new study.
Egyptian military armored vehicles have raced onto a main bridge over the Nile River in Cairo in the first major move to break up clashes raging between Islamist backers of ousted President Mohammed Morsi and their opponents.
Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center is one of 55 hospitals in 21 states that have agreed to pay the federal government a total of more than $34 million to settle allegations that the health care facilities submitted false claims to Medicare for a back procedure, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Nevada attorney general’s office has declined to pursue charges against Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo after officials there determined there was insufficient evidence to show the elected official willfully overspent his budget during the last fiscal year.
