UNLV falls to UC Riverside on the road

UNLV dropped the opener of a seven-game road trip on Tuesday, falling to UC Riverside, 8-2.

Woman dies after fall at South Rim of Grand Canyon

Authorities at Grand Canyon National Park have released the name of a Flagstaff woman who died after apparently falling off the South Rim.

Consultant details major flaws in state health insurance exchange rollout

The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange board today will get a detailed consultant’s report on problems with its troubled Nevada Health Link website and consider fixes that could include firing the firm that built it.

Teagarden sprouts success for 51s

You never get a second chance to make a good first impression. Unless you’re Taylor Teagarden. The 51s catcher has made several indelible first impressions in his 10-year pro baseball career.

CSN recognized by feds as minority-serving institution for Asian students

The College of Southern Nevada is now a minority-serving institution for Asian American, Native American and Pacific Islander students. The designation, announced Monday and issued by the U.S. Department of Education, recognizes the CSN student body is composed of more than 50 percent low-income or Pell Grant eligible students and at least 10 percent of the student population identifies with the ethnicities indicated by the award.

Lowden says she did not promise to personally pay campaign debt

Did Sue Lowden promise to personally pay off her 2010 U.S. Senate campaign debt? Did she agree to be “personally liable” to a Colorado company that conducted polling for her campaign? Did she discuss with the company the terms, price or subject of its contract with her campaign? The answer to all these questions is “no,” according to an affidavit Lowden filed on Feb. 26.

People died, Team Obama lied

It is now clear based on new email traffic from President Obama’s men that the White House launched a coordinated effort to make sure the Benghazi attack was incorrectly pinned on an Internet video and not the president’s policies.

9 things you could learn from Betty White’s Reddit Q&A

If you missed your chance to ask Betty White a question in her Q&A on reddit.com on Monday, it’s alright, because over 2,000 people asked her anything you could dream of anyway.

Snoop Dogg’s Vegas cabaret

Tao nightclub is about to go up in smoke, y’all, ‘cause the grandmaster of Mary Jane — Mr. Snoop Dogg himself — is turning the top-tier Vegas club into a “Roaring Twenties-themed Speakeasy Experience.”

 
Police: Man ‘armed’ with potato arrested

Providence police have arrested a man who allegedly wielded a potato disguised as a gun during a robbery attempt last week.

 
Bartender gets $1000 tip to help save dog

Christina Summitt, who works with her sister at a Holiday Inn in Clinton, N.J., was working when a middle-aged couple came in, ordered chicken wings and drinks, stuck around to chat and then left a $1,000 tip.

Chinese business brings PANDA! to Las Vegas stage

PANDA! at The Palazzo has taken up longterm residency in Las Vegas and Chinese producers are hoping to provide cultural bonding.

 
At least 35 dead as South braces for more tornadoes

A chain of deadly tornadoes over three days flattened homes and businesses in the South, forcing frightened residents in more than half a dozen states to take cover and leaving tens of thousands in the dark Tuesday. More storms are on the way.

Consumer spending helps spur robust increases in state, county taxable sales

Taxable sales jumped across Nevada and in Clark County in February. The dollar volume of goods sold by businesses statewide came in at $3.51 billion in the month, up 4.6 percent from $3.4 billion a year earlier, officials said Tuesday.

 
Teen Facebook fight turns deadly, 14-year-old shot dead

A 14-year-old Chicago girl has been charged with 1st degree murder after shooting another teen dead following a Facebook dispute concerning a boy.

 
Father, 2 kids rescued after 2 days lost in swampy woods

Search crews have found a father and his two children who had been missing for more than two days in the vast woods and swamps of the Congaree National Park in South Carolina.

 
Employee opens fire at FedEx sorting center, injuring 6

A FedEx employee wearing ammunition draped across his chest “like Rambo” opened fire Tuesday at a package-sorting center outside Atlanta, wounding six people before apparently committing suicide, police and witnesses said.

 
‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ cast unveiled

After months of carefully guarded secrecy and endless Internet speculation, “Star Wars: Episode VII” finally has a cast.

Johnson’s creative solution to Sterling problem

Former UNLV star Larry Johnson took to social media to offer a suggestion for black players fed up with playing for owners like Donald Sterling. While his proposal seems unreasonable, there are worse ideas.

Scorpions drummer jailed in Dubai for ‘offensive behavior’

Newspapers in the United Arab Emirates are reporting that the American drummer for the rock band Scorpions has been sentenced to one month in jail after being convicted of offensive behavior in Dubai.

Reid details letters that mix threats, biblical passages

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada said Tuesday that he has received “ugly, vile, vulgar” letters mailed to his home, nearly all of them mixing threats with passages from the Bible.

Alves gets support after racist banana taunt

Barcelona defender Dani Alves has received an outpouring of support for his response to a racist taunt during a game, while Villarreal issued a lifetime ban to the season-ticket holder who threw a banana at him.

 
Hollywood stars get little love at Tony nominations

While A-listers got snubbed, musicals “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” and “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” got all the love.