UNLV President Neal Smatresk has spent nearly five months trying to find a replacement for athletic director Jim Livengood. Over the past three weeks, he has interviewed four candidates, but the end of the process might be at hand.
A bankrupt electronics retailer appears to have gotten caught up in the investor fervor for Twitter as confused traders began scooping up Tweeter shares left and right.
Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins is resurrecting the sales tax increase proposal to help police departments pay for officers that his colleagues rejected this week.
Local visitor industry leaders extended their formal greeting on Friday to the World Routes conference, the most visible part of a three-year effort to land the conference, and to bring more foreign tourists to Las Vegas.
Members of Congress are continuing to accumulate their salary even as 800,000 federal workers have been furloughed and two million others are on the job during the government shutdown without a promise they will be compensated.
The nation’s No. 1 team comes to town, and the area’s Sunrise Region teams start league play in high school football this week. Here’s a look at some of the week’s top matchups.
Graffiti by the secretive British artist Banksy is turning up on the streets of New York City — and all over social media.
Ron Boyles takes on Scott Kellen in Week 5 of the Friday Football Showdown.
No African-American has won a season championship at the Bullring.
The State Bar of Nevada on Friday began the process of disciplining convicted former lobbyist Harvey Whittemore. It filed a petition formally notifying the Nevada Supreme Court of Whittemore’s conviction and judgment.
A man set himself on fire on the National Mall in the nation’s capital as passers-by rushed over to help douse the flames, officials and witnesses said Friday afternoon.
A motorcycle rider who was struck by an SUV during a New York motorcycle rally that turned violent is a family man who tried to defuse a tense situation, family members said Friday.
The Phoenix Zoo announced it had acquired two Patagonian cavies, two red-rumped agoutis and two Chinese alligators from the Southern Nevada Zoological Park.
Join Matt, Kelly and Tony from the sports book at the Golden Nugget for another week of free football picks and analysis.
The honesty of a homeless man who handed a lost, cash-filled backpack over to police has inspired more than $150,000 in donations to a fund set up in his honor, the fund’s organizer said Friday.
President Barack Obama went out for a deli sandwich Friday as the shutdown went into day 4, drawing a crowd and taking advantage of the spotlight to blame House Speaker John Boehner for the government pickle.
The downtown Las Vegas resort property once known as the Lady Luck will reopen next month as the Downtown Grand, the property’s chief executive said Friday.
Rosie Chavez left her war-ridden country of El Salvador in 1986 after gunfire broke out in front of her during a shift at a retail store. Under a different circumstance, Javier Chavez arrived in the United States in 1988 with the simple intention of working hard and buying his father a truck. Their search for a better future landed the couple the opportunity to start a business, La Flor de Michoacan, which has since grown into a franchise and four shops.
Alex Rodriguez sued Major League Baseball and Commissioner Bud Selig, accusing them of pursuing “vigilante justice” as part of a “witch hunt” designed to smear the character of the Yankees star and cost him tens of millions of dollars.
Many people hear the word “shaman” and connect it with indigenous tribal people. Summeriln resident Bonnie Serratore said that’s not always the case, and she should know. She’s been a master shaman for 28 years. Lately, her focus has been on helping veterans deal with post-traumatic stress disorder.
A 2010 rape conviction against Kenneth Simmons of Las Vegas has been tossed out by the Nevada Supreme Court because the jury panel included only two African-American members.
Glori Spriggs had tried for several years to create new recipes to qualify her for the Pillsbury Bake-Off. This year, her appetizer, loaded potato pinwheels, yielded a different reaction.
Erin Brockovich-Ellis has quietly ended her drunken boating case, pleading no contest to boating while intoxicated charges on Aug. 28, court records show. She was fined $750 and ordered her to complete an online boater safety course and 25 hours of community service.
To help people know where they are going, sometimes they need to look at where they have been. At least that’s the thoughts of the Henderson Historical Society.
More than 150 people recently got together at the DavidBartonGym in Suite 200 at Tivoli Village, 410 S. Rampart Blvd., and performed 108 sun salutation yoga positions. Their goal was to raise money for and awareness of Yoga Gangsters, a charitable organization with branches across the country that bring yoga to at-risk youths.
Over the course of nine years, somebody has stolen about $26,000 from the Oregon prison system — a quarter at a time. That’s about 104,000 quarters.
The College of Southern Nevada has hit a significant benchmark that will allow it to apply for the federal designation of Hispanic-Serving Institution next fall. Other Nevada higher education institutions also saw gains in Hispanic enrollments this fall, according to preliminary numbers. That boost could help those schools become Hispanic-Serving Institutions as well.
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin will furlough 3,000 employees on Monday and potentially more in coming weeks due to the government shutdown.
WASHINGTON — Prospects for a swift end to the 4-day-old partial government shutdown all but vanished Friday as lawmakers squabbled into the weekend and increasingly shifted their focus to a midmonth deadline for averting a threatened first-ever default.