Caleb Herring sacrificed last season for the good of the football team by also playing wide receiver, but when given the chance in the spring to be a full-time quarterback again, he seized the opportunity.
Southern Nevada may be a step closer to getting its own maximum security psychiatric facility.
A woman who alleges she was choked by a Family Court marshal while restrained in a holding cell testified Tuesday before a federal grand jury hearing evidence of excessive force and a possible cover-up.
Pope Francis cheered fellow Argentine Lionel Messi and other soccer stars Tuesday as he led a morality-focused pep rally of sorts at the Vatican for Argentina and Italy’s national teams ahead of their eagerly awaited friendly match.
Activist investor Carl Icahn thinks Apple should be doing more to revive its stock price, and wants to help CEO Tim Cook with the resuscitation.
The NFL Players Association “tentatively agreed” to let the league take 40 blood samples for HGH tests each week during the season, with a positive result drawing a four-game suspension, according to a memo the union sent players.
He has the last name and jersey number, but whether Tau Lotulelei can come close to emulating what big brother John did at UNLV is in question. The question probably won’t be answered for a while, but early indications are encouraging for the Rebels.
A former Henderson loan officer pleaded guilty in federal court this week in a $1 million, high-yield investment scheme involving the foreign currency exchange market.
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said his staff offered to bend to the concerns of Nevada officials when they held discussions in December about trucking a ton of unique, bomb-usable uranium waste from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee to the Nevada National Security Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Residents along a segment of Clark County’s Sloan Channel are eager for construction of a 4½-foot wide wastewater pipeline set to do away with the sewer-dwelling pests,
Former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, 47, avoided a night in jail but will face charges including possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell after 392 marijuana plants were found on her property.
When one thinks of the best pizza cities in America, Las Vegas might not be the first to come to mind—or the second, or even the third, yet it made it onto TripAdvisor.com’s list of “America’s Top 10 Cities for Pizza.”
A small, sweet thing happened Tuesday morning on the third floor of a medical office building where people go to die. It involved a retiree named Don Colbert, a doctor-slash-baker named Michael Zimmerman, and a woman named Jan Haupt, who was visiting her terminally ill mother, Belva Quello, who is 98 years old and not doing well.
Wine: Cecilia Beretta Brognoligo Soave Classico DOCG
In a remote corner of O’Hare International Airport, far from its high-profile modernization mega project, a decidedly more low-tech initiative is being carried out by a barnyard band of goats, sheep, llamas and wild burros.
A well-attended birthday party turned deadly shortly before midnight Saturday night. As police investigate the events that led up to the shooting of Jaylin Lewis, 17, the grandmother of the 16-year-old birthday girl, who asked not to be identified, just wants to forget.
The reshuffling of Clark County School District’s leaders continues as new Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky makes changes for his first school year at the helm.
Smart City Networks was replaced Tuesday by Cox Nevada Telcom as the main provider of telecommunication services for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, marking the end of a 15-year partnership.
Hot dogs of one brand or another are without doubt one of the most popular items sought by Taste of the Town readers over the years. It’s either a case of the things we eat during the early part of our lives influencing our tastes, a yearning for the tastes of happier times or a combination of both. (Although I have to say I never get a craving for Kahn’s, “the wiener the world awaited.” The company, now owned by Sara Lee Corp., uses “The taste you’ve always loved,” and I think they’re on to something.)
The National Clean Energy Summit brought together elected leaders, captains of industry and even an astronaut, but no one captured the central theme quite like the Moapa Band of Paiutes.
Twice traded for Cy Young Award winners and rated one of baseball’s top prospects the past four seasons, 51s catcher Travis d’Arnaud almost certainly would have reached the major leagues by now if not for a pair of unlikely injuries.
More than 100,000 people have already applied for a one-way ticket to Mars. Yes, Mars.
A Las Vegas woman who operated an unlicensed group home was sentenced Tuesday to probation, fined $25,000, and ordered to perform community service.
Nevada’s medical marijuana dispensary program got a major boost Tuesday when a state board approved more than half a million dollars for the state Tax Department to implement tax collection efforts on the sale of the drug next year.
The man shot and killed on J Street Sunday night has been identified as Stacey Renod Randolph by the Clark County coroner’s office.
A federal appeals court has ordered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to restart the licensing process for the shuttered Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project.
A tour bus driver from Las Vegas has been cited for trying to cross a wash flooded by a severe thunderstorm in northwest Arizona, according to the Mohave County Sheriff.
Insane video shows a train being struck by lightning in Tokyo on Monday.
The lottery is a pilot program that will be re-evaluated after six months, said city spokesman Jace Radke. The food-truck owners who participated in it were eligible for one of three spaces in downtown Las Vegas.