Rick Jones’ knuckles struck the door. It was a familiar, stern sound — one he hears each day in the field. The heavy clunks echoed as he waited to tell the woman at home her husband was dead.
Elko County authorities are trying to identify a man whose body was found rolled up in a sheet about three miles south of Jackpot.
A burglary suspect and person of interest in a Las Vegas homicide threatened a woman with a large knife stole her silver hatchback and then sped off early Saturday, losing police.
Legislation unveiled Friday in California would require smartphones and other mobile devices to have a “kill switch” to render them inoperable if lost or stolen — a move that could be the first of its kind in the country.
Some Clark County government fleets should return to burning a Nevada-produced cleaner fuel by summer when construction of a refinery that mixes natural gas and diesel is expected to start in North Las Vegas.
Norway currently leads the medal standings with four, but with a record 230 athletes at the Games, the U.S. has plenty more opportunities to medal. Here are 10 athletes to watch.
According to Justin Campese, his situation wasn’t so much a “Hotel Impossible” as a “Hotel Heading in the Right Direction That Could Still Really Use a Little Kick in the Pants.”
Want to be true to your state during its 150th anniversary year? Well starting Monday you can order the second official medallion minted to commemorate the state’s birthday on Oct. 31.
An hour after a woman reported her newborn son missing from a Wisconsin home, police were questioning her step-sister — found with a prosthetic pregnancy belly, baby clothes and a stroller, but no baby, according to court documents.
Since MSNBC is in the political ring, its opponents are always on the lookout for things to attack. Lately, NBC’s left-leaning cable news sister has offered plenty of ammunition.
News organizations publishing leaked National Security Agency documents have inadvertently disclosed the names of at least six intelligence workers and other government secrets they never intended to give away, an Associated Press review has found.
An Ely State Prison inmate serving a life sentence for first-degree murder and forgery died Friday.
A motorcyclist died after a fiery crash near Oakey and Martin Luther King boulevards Saturday despite efforts by passing drivers who dragged him from the flames.
With Jimmy Fallon’s departure from “Late Night” on Friday after five years in the host chair, he will be off the NBC airwaves a scant 10 days before coming back as host of “The Tonight Show,” which was vacated Thursday by Jay Leno after 22 years.
In an assertion of same-sex marriage rights, Attorney General Eric Holder is applying a landmark Supreme Court ruling to the Justice Department, announcing Saturday that same-sex spouses cannot be compelled to testify against each other, should be eligible to file for bankruptcy jointly and are entitled to the same rights and privileges as federal prison inmates in opposite-sex marriages.
What if you could make a difference and help a cause in a big way — a $100,000 big way? Impact Las Vegas plans to do just that by offering other valley nonprofit groups grant money.
A northern Nevada county is moving ahead with what may be a first-in-the-nation plan to charge county jail inmates for food and medical care, despite objections from the American Civil Liberties Union that it’s cruel and unusual punishment and could lead to a court battle.
Portland’s Damian Lillard will become the first player to compete in three events during All-Star Saturday night in New Orleans, including a slam dunk contest that features three All-Stars for the first time in 26 years.
The conference room inside Big Red Button Entertainment’s offices would look unremarkable if it weren’t for the vibrant panoramas of a cartoony, tree-filled world plastered next to portraits of colorful creatures and robots on the walls. At first glance, one of the critters looks like Sonic the Hedgehog — if he donned a brown scarf and sport tape around his appendages.
Clint Eastwood added another starring role at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am — life saver.
Smoke and mirrors? Russian state television aired footage Friday of five floating snowflakes turning into the Olympic rings and bursting into pyrotechnics at the Sochi Games opening ceremony. Problem is, that didn’t happen.
Not long after settling in southern Illinois in 1963, an ocean from her native England, Louise Harrison Caldwell trudged from one radio station to the next lobbying for air time for her brother’s quartet. Revered in Britain, the group was virtually unknown in America — and her promotion fizzled.
Employers added 113,000 jobs in January, the government said Friday, far fewer than the average monthly gain of 194,000 last year, renewing concern that the U.S. economy might be slowing after a strong finish last year.
Sage Kotsenburg loves snowboarding for all its unexpected surprises.
The process for replacing Keith Kizer as executive director of the Nevada Athletic Commission is about to move into its second phase with the goal of having someone hired by April still a realistic possibility.
FundingPost, a venture exchange that works both online and offline to introduce angel and venture capital investors to entrepreneurs, at one time sponsored an event in Las Vegas once every two years, according to Aaron Sahagun, southwest regional director. When Sahagun got involved in early 2013, that all changed. He gave the event a face-lift, transforming it into a “Shark Tank” panel.
The Gaming Control Board filed a two-count complaint Friday against the Aria Hotel-Casino and MGM Resorts International for blocking two state gaming agents from observing wagering activity in the CityCenter resort’s high-limit casino area.
The Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada Heart of Hope awards ceremony took place at the Red Rock Resort hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Friday.
When Andre Agassi announced last week his financing of buildings for three charter schools in Southern Nevada, he described the projects as the potential “start of a pipeline” of new, local charters. Well, there’s already another deal to announce.
As strange as it might seem, Larry Nance Jr. fell for Laramie, Wyo., and its lack of sights and sounds, at first sight. He immediately knew where he wanted to attend college and play basketball.