A Florida couple hosts the most epic of geek weddings featuring the likes of Iron Man, Batman and devious bellhops.
The Nevada Board of Regents on Friday took “interim” off Tina Kunzer-Murphy’s title, giving the new UNLV athletic director a three-year contract.
Defending champion Spain will play its opening World Cup game against the Netherlands, a repeat of the ill-tempered 2010 final. The United States was drawn in the toughest group with Germany, Portugal and Ghana.
In the immortal words of The Doors’ front man Jim Morrison, this is the end.
Former Nevada Assemblywoman Vivian Freeman of Reno, who championed the causes of women and children, conservation and education, has died at the age of 86.
Decades ago, the horse racing industry would study the Las Vegas casino business hoping to emulate its success. The business here was booming, and racing was starting to take on water.
Oregon State Police ticket a man for crashing his newly purchased tank into a guardrail, twice.
An Ohio BASE jumper is recovering after a poor parachute opening left him spinning out of control into a cliff wall in Utah.
Truth is stranger than fiction, especially in college football. The first half of that sentence is a Mark Twain quote. The best coach in the nation, Nick Saban, probably would agree with both halves after failing to take Auburn to overtime and looking like a jackass in the process.
Holly Madison wants the best of both worlds: balancing motherhood with her love of entertainment.
The Seattle Mariners and free agent second baseman Robinson Cano agreed to a 10-year, $240 million contract on Friday, according to multiple media reports.
Chris Petersen is headed to Washington after finally being persuaded to leave Boise State. Petersen agreed to become the Huskies’ new football coach on Friday, leaving behind an unprecedented run of success.
Come December each year, it really gets down to crunch time for millions of Americans who participate in fantasy football leagues.
Mark James, CEO of Frias Transportation Management, has stepped down.
Gary Kubiak is out after the Houston Texans dropped to 2-11, and Wade Phillips will guide the team through the end of the season. Kubiak, the only Texans coach to reach the playoffs, recently returned to duties after a medical episode during a game.
Authorities say they’ve arrested an 18-year-old accused of stealing part of the Porsche that “Fast & Furious” star Paul Walker was in when he was killed in a crash.
If there is one word to define veteran Christopher Bales, it is “humble.” The soon-to-be southwest valley resident is about as humbled to receive a mortgage-free home as he was to receive his Purple Heart. Bales, of Coarsegold, Calif., is set to move into a new home in January thanks to PulteGroup and Operation Finally Home, a nonprofit organization that helps provide homes to veterans.
The maker of a popular Android mobile app that turns your phone into a flashlight has agreed to settle the Federal Trade Commission’s charges that the software secretly supplied cellphone locations to marketers, even when consumers rejected its terms of service.
“Sunset Wonderland is like Central Park meets Sunset Park,” said Kim Ehler, recreation specialist for Clark County Parks and Recreation. The first-year holiday attraction packs Sunset Park with lights, activities and an ice skating rink.
When 25-year-old David Carter is not shimmying up palm trees in the summer, risking his life to cut its fronds, he’s “flocking” at one of the oldest Christmas tree lots in Las Vegas.
Flags were lowered to half-staff across South Africa and people in black townships, in upscale mostly white suburbs and in the country’s vast rural grasslands commemorated Nelson Mandela with song, tears and prayers on Friday while pledging to adhere to the values of unity and democracy that he embodied.
With more than 30 years in the music business, drummer and producer Dan Shinder knows a thing or two about success. His latest venture is Drum Talk TV. It launched in January and now reaches a half million viewers in 70 countries. It would never have grown to that point, he said, if he hadn’t known how to market himself. Now, Shinder has begun a seminar-based program called Marketing The Creative Mind. The next one is set for Dec. 14 in Las Vegas.
The National Finals Rodeo opened its 10-day run Thursday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Bull rider Steve Woolsey knows all too well what it’s like to be injured and unable to compete in his chosen profession.
Holly Madison wants the best of both worlds: balancing motherhood with her love of entertainment.
There couldn’t be official charges, couldn’t be an arrest, couldn’t be a trial, couldn’t be any resolution to the Jameis Winston sexual assault investigation other than what was decided Thursday.
If more people aren’t singing to cowboys this National Finals Rodeo week, Clay Walker says it “may be because there aren’t many cowboy singers anymore.”
For the fifth consecutive year the top 13 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers paraded down Las Vegas Blvd.
Interested buyers continue to float offers for downtown’s historic St. Joseph’s Catholic School, but none has yet reached its $2 million asking price.