PRIMM — Josh Temple made the ultimate sacrifice for the Green Valley wrestling team before the Sunrise Region tournament, cutting down to 120 pounds.
U.S. home prices fell for the second straight month in December as brutally cold weather, tight supply and higher costs slowed sales. But home prices in Las Vegas and five other cities bucked the trend and rose.
A giant 33-foot-tall statue, known as The Big Mango, that weighs seven tons was stolen Monday, and it was all revealed as a hoax from a chicken restaurant chain. But the restaurant chain isn’t saying why they did it just yet.
Nearly 1,400 lifers in California’s prisons have been released over the past three years in a sharp turnaround in a state where murderers and others sentenced to life with the possibility of parole almost never got out.
Forestry officials and police armed with tranquilizer darts searched for a leopard that injured six people and drove residents indoors in a bustling northern Indian city, police said Tuesday.
The Sacramento Kings are trying to buy out guard Jimmer Fredette’s contract. Fredette was a first-round pick in 2011 after being named college player of the year after a spectacular career at BYU.
Jeremy Fischer, a trash collector for Pride Disposal in Sherewood, Ore., was going about his regular work duties last week when he noticed an American flag, which had blown off a flagpole during a storm, on the ground.
A family of 24 was preparing for a Christmas photo when the deck they were standing on suddenly collapsed sending them all crashing to the ground.
A heartwarming meeting between two elephants, one of which hadn’t seen one of her kind for almost four decades.
The Christian Slater series, which feels like “Inception” remade as a USA network drama, is the perfect storm for a quick cancellation.
The parents are cooperating in an unusual investigation into the death of a baby who was declared dead twice at a Reno hospital last week, police said.
Wet ‘n’ Wild Las Vegas is readying for its second season and has started hiring for more than 450 seasonal jobs. The water park will open April 12 and operate through September.
It wasn’t too long ago that bicycling in the Las Vegas Valley was on par with white-water rafting and running with the bulls.
A 22-year-old Las Vegas man who told police he slashed the throat of the family dog because he liked to hurt animals is taking a plea deal that could get him probation or up to four years in prison.
UNLV’s former football coach, like most coaches, said he didn’t read the newspaper. But a story about former Rebels quarterbacks staking their claim as NFL assistant coaches brought back a favorite Mike Sanford memory.
Suspected Islamic extremists killed at least 29 students at a school dormitory in a pre-dawn attack early Tuesday, the spokesman for the governor of Nigeria’s Yobe state told The Associated Press.
Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that state attorneys general who believe that laws in their states banning same-sex marriage are discriminatory are not obligated to defend them. Nevada is one of five states that have taken such an approach.
A biblical booklet in a shirt pocket apparently helped a bus driver survive a shooting, and authorities were looking Tuesday for three suspects, police say.
A Ugandan newspaper published a list Tuesday of what it called the country’s “200 top” homosexuals, outing some Ugandans who previously had not identified themselves as gay one day after the president enacted a harsh anti-gay law.
The Great Las Vegas Arena Race featured a scene Monday rarely seen: Rick Arpin and Port Telles sitting side by side on a sports venue policy panel, representing the two front-running arena proposals in Las Vegas.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a Georgia police officer could not be sued in Nevada over the seizure of two travelers’ money at an Atlanta airport.
An extremely rare, polio-like disease has appeared in more than a dozen California children within the past year, and each of them suffered paralysis to one or more arms or legs, Stanford University researchers say. But public health officials haven’t identified any common causes connecting the cases.
Southern Nevadans involved in minor, non-injury car accidents shouldn’t expect a response from Las Vegas police beginning Monday, part of the department’s shift to focus more energy on serious accidents and preventing fatalities.
A major bitcoin exchange has gone bust after secretly racking up catastrophic losses, other virtual currency companies said Tuesday — a potentially fatal blow for the exotic new form of money.
A woman died Monday night after her vehicle ran into a chain-link fence in an east Las Vegas parking lot.
Gene Isaacs wasn’t short on tenacity. Isaacs also had a sheaf of documents and receipts that appeared to directly link Judge Steven Jones to his former brother-in-law’s investment schemes, schemes that authorities now call shady.
It’s not a conspiracy that Oliver Stone would be inclined to turn into a documentary. It was two days too late, but some evidence surfaced to suggest that Deville Smith’s last shot against Boise State should have beat the clock.
Nevada Hispanic leaders and lawmakers on Monday endorsed U.S. Rep. Dina Titus’s re-election campaign, saying she has long been a strong ally of the Latino community.