Since its arrival in 1985, the National Finals Rodeo has been the darling of December in Las Vegas. The 10-day blowout, aptly nicknamed the Super Bowl of Rodeo, draws tens of thousands of fans from all over the United States, Canada and points beyond.
Steven Jones has quite a sense of irony. During testimony last week before the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline, the suspended Family Court judge said he was “exceedingly offended” by the conduct of a deputy district attorney who suspected Jones had an inappropriate relationship with a fellow prosecutor. That attorney used a cellphone to snap a photo of him from under a restaurant table at a party in 2011.
Almost once a game, an NFL player absorbs an illegal blow to the head or neck that could put his career — or worse — at risk.
Las Vegas High’s basketball team was due a break around the basket on Tuesday. Reserve forward Will Loche gave them one.
The prep football season ended last weekend, but not all of the helmets and shoulder pads have been put away yet.
It’s easy to forget that college football’s bowl season is, first and foremost, programming for ESPN. And the Neal Smatresk Bowl apparently is not TV gold.
The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, which stages the popular National Finals Rodeo, will let Las Vegas know within 30 days whether it will accept a 10-year deal to stay in the city beyond the 2014 NFR event, PRCA Commissioner Karl Stressman said Tuesday.
Three northern Nevadan men were sentenced this week to prison after pleading guilty to child pornography charges, Nevada U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said Tuesday.
These days, the country music ranks are as fond of throwing parties in their own honor as they are of testifying to the thrills of muddying 4X4 tires off road or staunchly defending the merits of living in what uppity coastal types dismiss as flyover states.
The parents of a Marine sergeant who died while stationed in Greece say that they discovered weeks after his funeral that his body had been sent home without a heart — and that the Department of Defense later gave them somebody else’s heart in its place.
A man was found dead in a green minivan near Lake Mead Boulevard and Torrey Pines Drive Monday night, Las Vegas police said.
Hundreds of cooks, bartenders, hotel keepers and cocktail waitresses stood in a long line in cold weather to renew their Culinary union health insurance policies Tuesday.
A 23-year-old Las Vegas man wanted on felony warrants rammed two police cars when confronted by police Tuesday morning, Las Vegas police said.
A judge has awarded nearly $80 million to the family of a New Mexico woman who died in 2002 when a tractor-trailer struck her car and buried it in sand, suffocating the woman as teachers and students at a nearby school frantically tried to dig her out.
Two former foster parents have pleaded guilty in a child neglect case that took the Clark County Department of Family Services 19 days to resolve after receiving its first allegation of neglect, according to Las Vegas police and court records.
A man was shot in the hand after an apparent road rage incident near Flamingo Road and Arville Street Tuesday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
UNLV is having its best football season in 13 years, but the Rebels won’t have much to show in All-Mountain West honors.
A Grinch has made off with thousands of dollars in Christmas trees from a Gardnerville tree lot
Las Vegas police found a man dead in his home from an apparent gunshot wound while performing a welfare check Tuesday afternoon.
Paul Kunz, Justin Marzec and Joshua Giese were identified Tuesday as the Las Vegas police officers involved in the Saturday shooting of a heavily armed 26-year-old man near Flamingo Road and Mountain Vista Street.
A desperate search for a couple and four children missing for two days in the below-zero cold of Northern Nevada’s rugged mountains turned jubilant Tuesday when rescuers found them alive and well near their overturned Jeep.
A man wanted in a homicide near Sacramento, Calif., was arrested in Las Vegas early Tuesday morning after a lengthy standoff Monday evening.
The rift within the casino industry over Internet gambling was on full display Tuesday when U.S. House lawmakers explored whether there was any appetite for federal government action on Web-based gaming.