We have a front-runner for Best Protest Ever. About 50 people braved the August afternoon heat Saturday to shame the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the city of Las Vegas for the overreaching, overcharging, over-the-top prosecution of four people who used sidewalk chalk to criticize police shootings.
On Monday, I had the honor of serving as master of ceremonies for the Clark County School District’s annual back-to-school event for teachers. Let me tell you what I told them.
Very few fighters have had to deal with the kind of expectations that have been placed on Irish featherweight Conor McGregor so early in his Ultimate Fighting Championship career.
Arbor View small forward Justin Burks made an oral commitment to UC Santa Barbara on Sunday during his official visit to the school.
Junior running back Adonis Smith has some familiarity with UNLV’s opening opponent. He played at Northwestern for two football seasons before transferring last year, and he was on Wildcats teams that went 2-0 against Big Ten Conference rival Minnesota. UNLV plays at Minnesota on Aug. 29.
The UNLV women’s basketball team will play at least 10 games against teams that appeared in the postseason.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Tim Byrdak (1-0); Bees, Fernando Cabrera (1-2)
Aytes, a 6-foot-6-inch power forward from JSerra Catholic High School in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., announced Monday on Twitter he has orally committed to UNLV.
Local libraries will begin staying open an hour later Mondays through Thursdays, after the Labor Day holiday.
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Abby Wetherell tells The Associated Press she thought she was going to die as the animal clawed her on a dirt road near her grandfather’s hunting cabin in Wexford County.
The story of how the ring made it back to the Cox family is a testament to a former enemy’s generosity, the reach of the Internet and the healing power of time.
Lee Thompson Young, who began his acting career as the teenage star of the Disney Channel’s “The Famous Jett Jackson” and was featured in the film “Friday Night Lights” and the series “Rizzoli & Isles,” was found dead Monday, police said. He was 29.
A B-1B bomber crashed in a remote area of southeastern Montana on Monday, but its four crew members survived after ejecting from the South Dakota-based aircraft, Air Force officials said.
A man who died in a shootout with FBI agents after kidnapping a 16-year-old girl and killing her mother and brother named a member of the victims’ family as his life insurance beneficiary, a spokesman for the man’s family said Monday.
Jeff Dionne first got into truck driving for one reason: stability.
In the old days, when Jimmy Vaccaro first rolled into town and there were fewer rules and Las Vegas was more like the Wild West, it was easier to get deals done.
The progress made in improving water clarity and the environment at Lake Tahoe should be “the symbol” for the rest of the world in the effort to reduce the effects of global warming, former Vice President Al Gore said Monday.
Charles McChesney, the bad boy bail bondsman facing a slew of state and federal charges, has another black mark on his growing criminal resume.
Bondholders are growing disenchanted with Caesars Entertainment Corp. as it shifts assets, including an Internet gaming unit, away from them to benefit shareholders led by Apollo Global Management and TPG Capital.
My friend’s wife died suddenly last September at 53 years old. Tonight he shared with me that his greatest struggle this past year and the thing that keeps him depressed is being there for his daughters.
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