Jay Beasley knew he had a lot to take in this season, and he was right. But now he comes off his best finish, a fourth-place showing Saturday in the Casey’s General Stores 150 at Newton, Iowa. So maybe the Las Vegan is beginning to show real promise in his rookie season in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East circuit.
A man was fatally shot after a domestic disturbance in the southwest valley Thursday night, Las Vegas police say. Officers responded to Arcadia Bluff Court, near Buffalo Drive and Warm Springs Road, about 9 p.m.
The Clark County School Board started earnestly discussing district-wide rezoning Thursday as a way to even out the district’s student population, which officials contend can’t be done by building new schools because of a lack of money.
RENO — Pahranagat Valley’s baseball team looked as though it was ready to roll into the winners’ bracket in the Division IV state tournament on Thursday.
RENO — Pahranagat Valley’s softball team sent just one batter more than the minimum to the plate in the first five innings Thursday.
Cher doesn’t change, so what does? The eternal pop star’s “Dressed to Kill” tour doesn’t sound radically different from the headliner show that parked at Caesars Palace from 2008 to 2011. Reviews from the road cite gymnasts, Vegas-y production numbers, the same “Half Breed” headdress and the same Cher ass (which turned 68 on Tuesday) in chaps.
Stand-up is the second chapter for Tom Green, but it’s also a return to the first chapter.
When you think of guys who played Las Vegas for much of their lives, you think more about David Copperfield or Donny Osmond than Ziggy Marley.
Las Vegas Valley residents on Thursday offered their visions of what the Maryland Parkway corridor could look like some day.
A federal judge in Hawaii will consider whether to throw out a sex abuse lawsuit against “X-Men” franchise director Bryan Singer after his attorneys presented information that neither the filmmaker nor his accuser were in the state at the time.
The Nevada Gaming Commission found Malaysia-based Genting Berhad suitable to do business in the state and company officials said Thursday construction would begin this summer on the $4 billion Resorts World Las Vegas
Jason “Blu” Griffith has been found guilty of second-degree murder for choking to death Debbie Flores Narvaez on Dec. 12, 2010, after a year long on-again, off-again tumultuous relationship. The jury reached its verdict Thursday in its second day of deliberations following nine days of testimony and arguments by prosecutors and defense lawyers.
Nevada Gaming Commission soundly rejects pleas to allow gaming license holders to also have holdings in legal medical marijuana
Amid criticism from progressive lawyers, law school professors and gay and lesbian attorneys, only a conservative website has come to the defense of the president of Nevada’s State Bar in his attack on the attorney general over her position on the fight over gay marriage in the state.
Underscoring just how big a national draw Punk Rock Bowling has become, every show has sold out in advance. Really though, the bands are only half the attraction of PRB. With fans flocking to downtown Vegas from around the country, the fest has the feel of a particularly debauched family reunion.
A bus driver in Sweden made an unexpected stop on his route last week when he pulled over to aid a young girl who was crying on the sidewalk.
For R&B singer Maxwell, seduction is as effortless as the drawing in of a breath, his 1996 debut “Urban Hang Suite” having catalyzed the creation of a whole lot of the 18-year-olds now among us.
Hypnotic and jarring at once, electronic rock duo Phantogram tend to lull listeners into a false sense of security with singer-keyboardist Sarah Barthel’s breathy vocals and low-pitched synth lines before singer-guitarist John Carter disturbs the peace with bursts of dissonance.
O.J. Simpson is asking the Nevada Supreme Court to reverse a judge’s ruling denying him a new trial in a 2007 robbery case, in an appeal filed in the wee hours Thursday.
A man who authorities say went on a crime rampage that spanned two states and left a Utah couple dead has been sentenced to up to 56 years in Nevada for a kidnapping, robbery and botched carjacking at a casino.
The Washoe County School District has discontinued the use of an anti-bullying video that was shown to students at Sparks Middle School, including the 12-year-old gunman who went on a fatal schoolyard shooting rampage in the weeks after he watched it.
RENO — A wildfire burning in the mountain wilderness above Reno for nearly a week is all but out.
The special enrollment period ends May 30 for the state’s health insurance exchange, the marketplace through which consumers can buy health coverage and get a federal premium tax credit under the Affordable Care Act.
The Bureau of Land Management sold more than $18 million in public land in Southern Nevada on Thursday. The money earned from Nevada’s public land sales will go towards purposes such as parks, trails and the purchase of environmentally sensitive land.
British pop/R&B troupe Rixton gets the party started at 8:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Book & Stage at The Cosmopolitan.
A Japanese pharmaceutical company prevailed Thursday in a Las Vegas case involving two women who claimed the diabetes drug Actos caused them to develop bladder cancer.
Harold Montague, 38, agreed Wednesday to spend the rest of his life in prison when he pleaded guilty but mentally ill to first-degree murder for killing a baby with a battle ax in Las Vegas.
Cash-strapped North Las Vegas plans to press ahead with state legislative fixes for its money woes, up to and including a bill that would allow Nevada cities to declare bankruptcy, Mayor John Lee said Thursday.
Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley in Orlando, the world’s longest and fastest inverted roller coaster in Ohio and water parks in every corner of the United States are among the many new attractions at theme parks this season. And families with young kids won’t be disappointed, either: Many parks are unveiling rides appropriate for children, yet exciting enough to thrill adults.
