Policymakers must get on board with online gambling

On Wednesday night, Justin Timberlake and other Hollywood stars walked the red carpet in Las Vegas to premiere their new movie, “Runner Runner,” a harrowing account of a lawless online poker world ruled by shady and unethical characters.

Puig’s immaturity troubling

Without him, the Los Angeles Dodgers are just another underachieving team in the National League West, while Don Mattingly finds ways to spend his unexpected summer vacation.

Stormy conditions make for challenging mourning dove hunt

Thunderstorms that pounded Southern Nevada the past few weeks brought much-needed water to the desert but also put a damper on the mourning dove hunt. Doves that migrated into the area between storms quickly were pushed out with the arrival of the next round of thunder and lightning.

Scrappy mindset pays off

When Taylor Jackson pictures a scrappy girls volleyball team, several traits come to mind.

Not all 0-2 NFL teams are equally helpless

Stories are appearing in newspapers from Tampa to New York to Minneapolis. Sobering statistics are being compared. Panic has set in. Funerals are being planned.

Cantor Gaming, Bally Technologies sign online content deal

Cantor Gaming has signed an online content agreement to provide Bally Technologies’ iGaming Platform with its sports wagering and mobile casino games, the Las Vegas-based bookmaker said Wednesday.

Preaching with power of punk

It’s raining steady and traffic is snarled. The devil’s work, obviously.

Locals only: Collector cars featured at auto auctions

Because sometimes the Strip just isn’t flashy enough, 75 collector vehicles will be driven down it Wednesday afternoon during the sixth annual Barrett-Jackson road rally.

Mo5aic will get Vegas show at last

It took a long time for Mo5aic to open its own show in Las Vegas. But the group at least waited long enough for a cappella to be cool.

North Las Vegas police arrest father in March death of infant daughter

Joshua Chinn was arrested last week and charged with murder in connection with his infant daughter’s death, according to North Las Vegas police. The baby died on March 14, according to the child death report filed with the state by the Clark County Department of Family Services.

Former heavyweight champion Ken Norton has died at 70

Ken Norton, a former heavyweight champion of the world who is best remembered for his trilogy of fights against Muhammad Ali — one in which he broke Ali’s jaw — died Wednesday in a veterans care facility in Henderson from congestive heart failure.

Rebels can’t look past Western Illinois

UNLV football coach Bobby Hauck shouldn’t have any problem getting his players’ attention this week even with a lower-level opponent rolling into town.

Panel given task of picking new UMC board

Clark County’s journey toward getting a separate board in place to oversee University Medical Center now has a five-member committee to pick the new board members.

Intervention program aims to keep youths out of trouble

Trying to reach out to at-risk youths and decrease gang violence, Clark County’s Back on Track gang intervention program uses many tools to appeal to those who take part in the program.

Ethics hearing for School Board president to proceed

The Nevada Commission on Ethics unanimously denied Clark County School Board President Carolyn Edwards’ request Wednesday to throw out its investigation of her actions during last year’s general election – and will instead dig deeper into whether she violated state law that prohibits spending public dollars to lobby for a measure to increase property taxes.

Nearly 40 percent of Rim Fire land a moonscape

A fire that raged in forest land in and around Yosemite National Park has left a contiguous barren moonscape in the Sierra Nevada mountains that experts say is larger than any burned in centuries.

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