Somewhere, there’s a family that’s the target audience for “Blended.”
The hole was too deep this time, giving UNLV nearly no chance of engineering a miracle rally for the second night in a row.
A 99-year-old Maine woman is celebrating her graduation from college 75 years after a $5 transcript fee kept her from getting her diploma on time.
Josh Beckett pitched the first no-hitter of his stellar career and the first in the majors this season, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Philadelphia Phillies 6-0 on Sunday.
A man who was pulled from Lake Mead Thursday morning was identified Sunday by the Clark County Coroner’s office.
The U.S. House and Senate last week approved a $12.3 billion bill that reforms the way the federal government funds construction and maintenance of harbors and inland waterways used for commercial shipping.
Landon Donovan thought he had earned a prominent role on the U.S. World Cup team right up until the moment he was cut from the roster by coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
A report titled “Dangerous by Design,” issued last week by the National Complete Streets Coalition, ranks Las Vegas the 13th most dangerous for pedestrians of 51 metropolitan areas in the U.S., but those numbers don’t consider the number of walking tourists.
A team of mutants overpowered one massive mutant monster at the box office during the Memorial Day holiday.
Owners of brands geared toward children of all ages are battling to keep notable names like Thin Mint, Tootsie Roll and Cinnamon Toast Crunch off the flavored nicotine used in electronic cigarettes.
A depressing era is ending. It spanned eight years, years of mostly mediocre and sometimes really bad baseball. Tim Chambers finally has put an end to it.
President Barack Obama secretly slipped into Afghanistan under the cover of darkness Sunday for a weekend visit with U.S. troops serving in the closing months of America’s longest war.
Two famous men known for altercations were celebrity hosts at the same nightclub this weekend.
Because of last summer’s disastrous Carpenter 1 fire, subsequent floods and an ongoing schedule of improvements, visitors to the Spring Mountain retreat this summer should expect some changes and restrictions.
Some Indianapolis 500 race fans didn’t need to worry about waking up early Sunday morning and joining lines of traffic to get into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway — they were already in place after spending the night “glamping” within the track’s vast infield.
Save for a few small companies, Wall Street has thrown in the towel on slot machine manufacturers for 2014.
It seems like a simple proposition: American lakes, rivers and offshore waters are filling up with destructive fish and crustaceans originally from other parts of the world, many of them potential sources of food.
Three people were killed and a fourth person was wounded in a shooting at an oceanfront motel in Myrtle Beach, one of South Carolina’s most popular tourist destinations.
The Mighty Mississippi might have inspired the pen name Mark Twain, but Nevada gave it voice.
In YouTube videos and a long written manifesto, Elliot Rodger aired his contempt for everyone from his roommates to the whole human race, reserving special hate for two groups: the women he says kept him a virgin for all of his 22 years, and the men they chose instead.
If you want to know where the medicinal marijuana issue is going in Nevada, don’t sweat the future location of the pot shop nearest you. Instead, just drop by Richard “Tick” Segerblom’s downtown law office.
Saturday night was supposed to be an opportunity for Renan Barao to show the mixed martial arts world he was not only the best bantamweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, but also perhaps the best fighter in the organization.
Retired Army Sgt. Charles Copeland was surprised when Rep. Joe Heck presented him a Memorial Day award Saturday, and then again when he was presented with a new Chevrolet Silverado, but he didn’t tear up until Findlay Chevrolet gave his 3-year-old daughter a car of her own — a motorized toy Corvette.
Summer jobs. Almost all of us have had them, either by necessity (to raise money for school) or preference (because having a few bucks to spend on summertime necessities is sweet).
There’s a scene in the iconic stock-car movie “Days of Thunder” that takes place the night before the big race — the Daytona 500, if memory serves — in which Robert Duvall talks to Tom Cruise’s car. Duvall was cast as crusty crew chief Harry Hogge; Cruise as brash young driver Cole Trickle.
Marijuana could become one of the biggest cash crops in Nevada when cultivation facilities open in the coming months, according to a UNLV soil and water scientist.
Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area’s only campground, two miles from the visitor center on West Charleston Boulevard, will be closed May 27 to August 29, according to the Bureau of Land Management. The season is what the BLM calls a “low-usage period.”
In coming months, Clark County is expected to issue the first medical marijuana business licenses on four different levels: cultivation warehouses, production facilities, lab testing and dispensaries. That encompasses each stage of getting pot from seed to sale.