Andrew Harrison scored 20 points, twin brother Aaron had 19 and Kentucky ended Wichita State’s pursuit of perfection Sunday when Fred VanVleet’s potential game-winning 3-pointer missed in a 78-76 victory in the NCAA tournament.
A resilient survivor of one of the last great gold-mining booms in the West, Beatty persists as a commercial center and transportation hub in sparsely populated Nye County.
To go with “Twilight” and “The Hunger Games,” Lionsgate now has a trio of young-adult franchises with the box-office leading “Divergent.”
A lot of sweat and hard work has gone into renovating the future Southwest home of Denzila Watts within the last few weeks. Then again, it’s called “sweat equity” for a reason.
Dwight Powell had 15 points and seven rebounds and No. 10 seed Stanford wrapped up its second straight upset at the free throw line, knocking off No. 2 Kansas 60-57 in the South Regional on Sunday.
As a child, Craig Galati loved splashing around in the city of Las Vegas’ Garside Pool. Now he’s just as happy to have a hand in its destruction to make way for a better one.
It’s not that Americans don’t ever enjoy a stick of Trident or Orbit, the two most popular brands. They just aren’t as crazy about chomping away on the stuff as they once were, with U.S. sales tumbling 11 percent over the past four years.
Looking out to a theater full of motivated college students, Hillary Clinton said their generation showed great promise as “open-minded and tolerant” Americans ready to step forward for an important cause.
ABC Family is backing down on plans for a series based in Saudi Arabia amid criticism that the show has racist undertones.
First Duke, then Syracuse. Now second-seeded Villanova has been eliminated.
Sony unveiled a prototype headset this week capable of surrounding a wearer’s vision with interactive virtual worlds. The system, codenamed Project Morpheus, utilizes a 1080p head-mounted display with head-tracking capabilities and works in concert with the PlayStation 4 console to display imagery on the headset’s screen, providing a 90-degree field of view.
Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg and the Girl Scouts recently declared a campaign to “Ban Bossy,” complete with Beyonce, Jane Lynch and Condoleezza Rice on video, a website full of tips and thousands of fans who pledged to stamp out that B word for girls.
The Las Vegas man who died in a single-vehicle crash in the southwest valley Saturday has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
His team led by four runs in the top of the seventh on Saturday, but Arbor View baseball coach Jay Guest felt far from comfortable.
It’s a common reaction: One of the best players on one of the nation’s best college basketball teams is lost for the season due to injury and his teammates begin pressing.
Silverado High School health and psychology teacher Kelli Schwallie kindly greets her students as they file into her classroom. The scene appears average, yet the miracle that Schwallie has undergone is far from it.
Million-dollar fines for violating Nevada gaming law used to be rare.
With the alarming increase in the number of vehicle-pedestrian accidents in Southern Nevada over the past two years, it’s important for motorists to know when they can make a right turn when pedestrians are present in a crosswalk.
Kelly Clinton and Clint Holmes have been married since Nov. 11, 2007. At home, Mr. and Mrs. are like any other couple … except sometimes they aren’t.
Jacob Parker is what you might expect from a Cinderella story in the NCAA Tournament, a free spirit who happens to be the leading scorer on a team that has won 29 straight games and last lost Nov. 23.
Bill Maher’s admission last week that a Las Vegas club stopped him from smoking marijuana reminded me of a first: The first, and only, time I saw illegal drug use at a headliner’s party was not long after I arrived here in 1999.
Earlier this month, MGM Resorts International Chairman and CEO Jim Murren participated in the annual J.P. Morgan Gaming, Lodging, Restaurant and Leisure Management Access Forum at the Mandarin Oriental.
View Neighborhood News readers send photos of their pets and everday lives, and View features photos of pets ready for adoption each week. To submit a photo, email View copy editor Anne King at aking@viewnews.com or mail to Viewpoints, 1111 W. Bonanza Road, Las Vegas, NV 89125. Photos cannot be returned, and due to the high volume, they are often scheduled a month or two in advance.
Air Force Airman Steven A. Vincent graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio. Vincent is the son of Karyn and Steve Vincent of Las Vegas and is a 2013 graduate of Silverado High School.
