Jack Ramsay, a Hall of Fame coach who led the Portland Trail Blazers to the 1977 NBA championship before he became one of the NBA’s most respected broadcasters, has died following a long battle with cancer. He was 89.
In an effort to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine, the U.S. has implemented new sanctions against Russian officials and companies linked to Vladimir Putin’s associates.
He was young, displaced and frustrated, and he wanted nothing more than to reunite with his mother in their native Africa. The 15-year-old Somali boy had been arguing at home, and in the kind of impulsive move that teenagers make, he hopped a fence at San Jose International Airport last Sunday and clambered into a wheel well of a Hawaii-bound jetliner.
Wynn Resorts says it has signed agreements with four more Boston-area communities as it seeks to build a $1.2 billion resort-style casino in Everett, Mass.
A Utah woman was charged Monday with six counts of first-degree murder in the killing of her six babies over a decade, but she cannot face the death penalty if convicted, prosecutors said.
A Florida man who tossed 3 undersized grouper fish overboard is facing criminal charges for violating a federal law originally intended for the accounting industry.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security advised computer users to consider using alternatives to Microsoft Corp’s Internet Explorer browser until the company fixes a security flaw that hackers have used to launch attacks.
Scientists have created insulin-producing cells for diabetes treatment through stem cell cloning.
Newmont Mining Corp. said on Monday it had ended merger talks with Barrick Gold Corp. Analysts and others have long thought a tie-up was logical from a cost-cutting perspective, particularly given the vast overlap in the companies’ combined operations in Nevada.
Hotelier Sue Lowden is still dealing with unpaid debts from her unsuccessful 2010 bid for U.S. Senate, and it’s coming back to bite her in her new bid for lieutenant govenror.
U.S. public high schools have reached a milestone, an 80 percent graduation rate. Yet that still means 1 of every 5 students walks away without a diploma, and it’s even worse in Nevada.
Paul Simon and his wife, Edie Brickell, were arrested on disorderly conduct charges by officers investigating a family dispute, but the couple held hands in court Monday and said they did not feel threatened by the other.
George Clooney is getting hitched to 36-year-old U.K. attorney Amal Alamuddin.
The operator of the Resorts World Casino New York City at the Aqueduct Racetrack has released details of a resort casino it’s hoping to build in Orange County.
Assemblywoman Lucy Flores — the Democratic front-runner for lieutenant governor — has said repeatedly that she’s against The Education Initiative.
Meadows Bank on Monday reported first-quarter net income of $1.262 million, compared with $335,000 in the same period last year.
When they ran onto the field Sunday on an ideal day for baseball, the time was 12:08 p.m., the temperature was 67 degrees, the wind was blowing from left field to right at 8 mph and the Las Vegas 51s were the best team in minor league baseball, by percentage.
A lockdown at North Carolina A&T State University has been lifted after a search failed to find any sign of a reported gunman.
An Amber Alert was issued in California Monday after 3-year-old Tanya Ruiz went missing from the area of Huron, Calif., near Fresno.
Steve Lawrence has told Steve Wynn that he’s all-in for a Frank Sinatra 100th birthday tribute on Dec. 12, 2015. “Lawrence came up the idea earlier this month,” Wynn said. “We had dinner. He’s said, ‘Let’s do something. Count me in.’ ”
Two people were taken to University Medical Center with serious injuries after a car crash at Rainbow Boulevard and Hacienda Avenue Monday morning. The driver of one car was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, police said.
Australia’s loss is the Las Vegas Valley’s gain. International recording star and Las Vegas resident Greg Bonham is set to appear in his own show, “G’Day Las Vegas,” at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
A Las Vegas judge is considering a request to punish lawyers for engaging in misconduct during an ongoing civil trial in her courtroom.
The aerial search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was called off Monday, and the underwater hunt will be expanded to include a vast swath of ocean floor that may take at least eight months to thoroughly search, Australian officials said.
On any other day, Stephen Curry’s seven 3-pointers would have been the only story. Sideshow aside, Curry shot life back into the Golden State Warriors, and that’s what mattered most to underdog bettors. The Warriors were aiming to get even in a first-round playoff series. The Los Angeles Clippers are tied up in a full-blown media circus.
Abuse of the elderly in Southern Nevada comes in many guises. Food deprivation. Physical harm inflicted by spouses or adult children. A lack of air conditioning in the midst of summer heat. “The number of elder abuse reports continues to increase slightly every year,” said Jill Berntson, social services chief for the state’s Aging and Disability Services Division for Elder Rights.
Longtime Las Vegas chiropractor Steven Rudack does more than just adjust a patient’s spine. He also looks to adjust a patient’s lifestyle.