The top recruits are the ones expected to help make or break a football program. But the players who walk on and fight their way into a scholarship far from the spotlight are the ones who sometimes make an even bigger difference.
A man shot his daughter and then turned the gun on himself at a northeast valley apartment Tuesday evening, Las Vegas police said.
Volunteers organized bags of food during an event at Project 150 in Las Vegas where volunteers were planned to assemble more than 750 holiday dinners for local students and their families in need on Tuesday.
A suicidal gunman opened fire at a Reno hospital campus Tuesday, killing one person, critically wounding two others and sending police on a door-to-door search within the facility amid the chaos.
A 43-year-old man was found guilty of first-degree murder and other charges in the October 2010 shooting in Henderson of another man involved in a love triangle, prosecutors said.
Hundreds of immigrants who have committed a felony and fraudulently obtained driver’s licenses in Nevada run the risk of arrest and even deportation if they apply for the new driver authorization card.
Nevada’s health insurance marketplace on Tuesday reported big gains in Web traffic.
Billie Jean King will be one of two openly gay athletes in the U.S. delegation for the opening and closing ceremonies at the Winter Olympics next year in Sochi, Russia, President Obama announced Tuesday. For the first time since 2000, however, the U.S. will not send a president, former president, first lady or vice president to the Games.
North Las Vegas police are searching for a suspect in a October convenience store robbery near Craig Road and Valley Drive.
Sheriff Doug Gillespie presented Clark County commissioners on Tuesday with an option to put more officers on the street with an increased sales tax.
The rising cost of higher education is a problem that goes beyond affordability. The value of many degrees is falling while the price to obtain those degrees continues to climb.
Maybe the marriage between Las Vegas and the National Finals Rodeo isn’t as strong as we thought. Maybe, like so many partners who’ve been together nearly three decades, they’ve forgotten how to talk to one another.
National Finals Rodeo cowboys are straight shooters — they’re happy to tell you their motivation for wanting to move the Super Bowl of rodeos out of Las Vegas is money.
A public finance expert chosen to take a high-level role with the city of Las Vegas has decided to go to Fort Worth, Texas, instead.
Henderson police are looking for additional information in the child molestation case of a privately contracted tennis coach.
Las Vegas police are looking for a man who robbed a restaurant in November near Vegas Drive and Jones Boulevard.
Instead of going the traditional route to market “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” a film producer decided to spend the entire budget to help victims of Typhoon Haiyan.
It starts off strong, and it ends even stronger. And there’s the middle.
A 22-year-old man was arrested Monday on a murder charge in the death of a man in a South Point hotel room.
Before setting fire to his home at about 10:30 Sunday night, an 81-year-old man tried to kill his wife, according to authorities.
CARSON CITY — The director of the Nevada Department of Corrections says his agency supports a new law requiring an autopsy be conducted on inmates who die in custody.
Facebook said Tuesday that it’s testing video advertisements that show up in its users’ news feeds, creating another potential source of advertising revenue for the social network.
Fallout from the U.S. Senate’s fight over filibusters ended up falling Tuesday on the Nevadan nominated to head the Bureau of Land Management.
Gift givers searching online for a kid’s must-have toy this holiday season are more likely to find it at Amazon.com than Target, Wal-Mart Stores, Toys “R” Us or Kmart.