A botched execution that used a new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney Tuesday, leading prison officials to halt the proceedings before the inmate’s eventual death from a heart attack.
There is a reason analysts spent about 40 minutes questioning Las Vegas Sands Corp. officials last week about the company’s results in Macau. More than half of the company’s quarterly revenue came from its Macau resorts.
The creators of “Pawn Stars” are planning a TV spin-off game show and they want Vegas locals to show up for the part.
Findlay Prep basketball coach Jerome Williams will not return for a second season with the Pilots.
The opportunity for a big first inning was there for the Centennial and Cimarron-Memorial baseball teams Tuesday.
Preston Pavlica was 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI to help Liberty’s baseball team edge host Coronado 4-3 on Tuesday.
Tyrone Prewitt won the 200-meter dash and triple jump and was third in the 100 to lead Valley’s boys track team to a 77-61 home victory over Silverado on Tuesday.
Shelby Estocado was 3-for-4 with two triples, two runs and an RBI on Tuesday to help Bishop Gorman’s softball team to a 10-0, five-inning home win over Legacy.
Ingrid Zarate-Albarran and Jazmyne Pascual each won two events Tuesday to lead Del Sol’s girls track team to a 79-63 home win over Basic.
Auston Farrington had 10 kills, three aces and two blocks, and Taylor Dyer added 33 assists Tuesday to help Basic’s boys volleyball team to a 25-18, 16-25, 25-22, 27-25 victory over visiting Foothill.
While a lot of Taste of the Town readers are in search of restaurants that serve their favorite foods, Henry Arambula is looking for something he wants to cook at home — specifically, Polish sausage. And his fellow Taste of the Town readers have a few suggestions.
Jerome Williams’ basketball mission has not changed. But he won’t be carrying it out at Findlay Prep.
Joseph Ender shot 2-over-par 74 at Badlands on Tuesday to help Palo Verde’s boys golf team win a Northwest League match.
Last month I was visiting Chile, and Concha y Toro really stands out as one of the oldest and greatest wineries in that part of the world.
The Bier Garten, which opened in early spring, is outdoors on the Plaza’s frontage on Main Street. Its site includes almost 3,000 square feet of grass, trellises with vines and a wall of more than 900 plants, which help create an atmosphere reminiscent of the leafy beer gardens of Bavaria.
A teen was hit by a car in the southwest valley Tuesday evening, police say. A 16-year-old boy got off of a bus at Jones Boulevard and Rochelle Avenue, near Flamingo Road, about 7 p.m.
Las Vegas police shot and killed a man who they say fired at multiple officers during a barricade situation in the east valley Tuesday afternoon.
Floyd Mayweather Jr., who will put his 45-0 record with 26 knockouts on the line Saturday against Marcos Maidana at the Grand Garden on Showtime Pay Per View, said he’s interested in being part of a consortium to purchase the Los Angeles Clippers.
Rancher Cliven Bundy, whose refusal to pay fees for grazing cattle on public lands for 21 years led to a controversial roundup by the Bureau of Land Management, debunked claims Tuesday that militia followers who rallied to his cause continue to stir up this rural community with checkpoints and an armed presence.
The NBA’s lifetime banishment on Tuesday of Donald Sterling as owner of the Los Angeles Clippers was not enough for Mandalay Bay to maintain its business relationship with the team.
Two male students from Greenspun Junior High School allege they were sexually, physically and verbally harassed by other students for months because of their “perceived sexual orientation,” but received little help from school officials, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the School District in Clark County District Court.
Defense lawyers launched an opening-day offensive on Tuesday attacking the government’s chief witness in the federal trial of three Cuban immigrants charged with stealing drugs and high-quality merchandise from delivery vans and warehouses around the Las Vegas Valley. The witness, Yordani Corona Del Toro, a 23-year-old felon and “gang-banger,” struck a deal with federal prosecutors in the case to escape a sentence of life in prison in Nevada as a habitual criminal, the defense lawyers said in their opening statements.
A personal pitch from U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada failed on Tuesday to persuade House Speaker John Boehner to move forward on a bill that would extend unemployment payments to more than 2 million Americans whose benefits have expired.
A bill that would require adult film actors to wear condoms during productions anywhere in California and to be tested regularly for sexually transmitted diseases passed a committee vote Tuesday.
UNLV dropped the opener of a seven-game road trip on Tuesday, falling to UC Riverside, 8-2.
Authorities at Grand Canyon National Park have released the name of a Flagstaff woman who died after apparently falling off the South Rim.
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.
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.
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.
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.