Simon Pagenaud tops 226 mph, puts Sam Schmidt team on top of speed chart.
Annie Meadows is best known as a Christian singer/songwriter with an international following. Recently, she added children’s book author to the mix.
It wasn’t always easy to maintain Keller Williams Realty Southern Nevada during difficult seasons in the real estate market.
Authorities say a Northern Arizona teenager sporting a stolen tuxedo was arrested at a high school prom after the store owner spotted him in the formalwear.
An Egyptian ping-pong player plays the game a little differently than most would … with the paddle between his teeth.
Station Casinos recently announced its Military Mondays program, which offers discounts to active and retired military veterans who show identification.
Two upscale elder-care housing projects coming to northwest Arizona
CBS announced six new dramas and two new comedies, including spinoffs of “CSI” and “NCIS” but not “How I Met Your Mother,” for the 2014-15 season.
Not every family can afford the expense of summer day camp. To help extend the opportunity to more children, the city of Henderson plans to partner with three area elementary schools to offer free programming and food throughout the summer.
A motorcyclist survived a dramatic crash, and it was all caught on camera.
Don’t get the Regional Transportation Commission’s consultant on a resort corridor transportation plan worked up about writing a study about Strip traffic — even though that’s what it has been called. “I hate that word ‘study,’” Michael Gallis, principal of Charlotte, N.C.-based Michael Gallis & Associates.
To me, professional sports all-star games are pretty irrelevant. Defense goes out the window. Contact disappears. Smiles are more prevalent than hits. The NHL runs up goals at a record-setting pace; the NFL sets point records approaching 130 points combined; and the NBA combined scoring reaches in excess of 300 points. But there is one exception. No, not the MLB game, even though there’s something at stake there. It is, voila, the MLB’s home run contest that takes place the day before the All-Star Game. This competition fills the stadium, powers fan excitement and generates decent TV ratings. People love the long ball.
The National Weather Service noticed May is usually a weird weather month and noted some of the more interesting weather events that have happened.
Thirty-six Division I athletic teams will face postseason bans next fall because of sub-par scores on the NCAA’s annual Academic Progress Rate, which was released Wednesday. The biggest names on the list — UNLV football and San Jose State men’s basketball — had been previously reported.
A former Las Vegas physician accused of sexually assaulting female patients was sentenced to five years of probation for a lesser charge Wednesday.
The Colorado River could spill into the Gulf of California’s tidewater channel during high tide Thursday, which would be the first time in 20 years that the Colorado has reached the sea.
Hakkasan Group announced Wednesday it will close Pure on May 26 for an extensive renovation and expansion and that it will open in 2015 under a new name and concept.
The Mountain West moved the UNLV-Fresno State football game up a day to Oct. 10 and added it to its Friday night television schedule.
A planning consultant says Las Vegas is poised to take advantage of its position in the global economy, but has to take steps to improve local transportation first.
It was once owned by Shaq, Celine Dion and Andre Agassi; Britney got carried away there; and the IRS raided it. Was Pure famous or infamous?
A Florida high school football coach has been arrested after authorities say he repeatedly stole money from students’ wallets.
Forget about their students not making it to graduation. Now colleges have to wonder whether their speakers will.
New Jersey’s fledgling Internet gambling industry saw its first monthly decline, falling slightly to $11.4 million in April.
Samsung Electronics Co. apologized and promised compensation to chip factory workers who suffered cancers linked to chemical exposure, a rare win for families and activists seven years after the death of a 23-year-old employee from leukemia galvanized a movement to hold the company to account.
Panthers Pro Bowl defensive end Greg Hardy was released from jail on $17,000 bond Wednesday, one day after being arrested on charges of assault on a female and communicating threats.
A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying three astronauts who had spent a half-year aboard the International Space Station landed Wednesday in the steppes of Kazakhstan.
The person Las Vegas police said is linked to a Wednesday morning robbery is now on the loose and considered armed and dangerous, police said.
A man accused of slamming a stolen truck into a television station was charged Wednesday with second-degree attempted murder, and his father said he had recently become prone to violent outbursts.
“Godzilla” is just a few days away from opening, so in preparation for the big summer flick we take a look at five of the best monsters from movies. But note the ground rules.
Italy may not seem like the ideal place for a Domino’s Pizza shop, but the man who heads the American chain remains optimistic about the possibility.