Not only is billionaire Bill Gates sending Erika Carrera to the college of her choice, but President Barack Obama will bid her good luck in a White House ceremony this summer, placing the medallion of U.S. Presidential Scholar around her neck.
What happens when you invite Vice President Joe Biden to your prom? Chances are he won’t show. But he doesn’t ignore it, either.
In the competitive Nevada attorney general’s race, Democrat Ross Miller has raised more than $1.25 million so far compared to $543,000 raised by Republican Adam Laxalt, their campaigns said Monday.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — Mohave County Supervisor Joy Brotherton died at her home in Kingman Monday. A spokeswoman for the family, Barbara Ricca, said Brotherton, 75, died of a “serious, undisclosed illness.”
The NBA has charged Donald Sterling with damaging its reputation and teams with racist remarks and has set a vote that could determine his future as Los Angeles Clippers owner.
A pair of Clark County women deserve at least $60 million after developing bladder cancer from taking the diabetes drug Actos, one of their attorneys told a jury Monday. The lawyers for Delores Cipriano, 81, and Bertha Triana, 80, have said they plan to seek billions of dollars more in punitive damages from the Japan-based drug maker Takeda as the case wraps up this week.
Arizona authorities believe the sheriff’s deputy who recently killed himself may have been shaking down immigrants after discovering hundreds of hours of recorded traffic stops, driver’s licenses, passports and other documents in the man’s home during a drug investigation.
The man charged in a fatal shooting at the Palms this past week said the gun fired accidentally, according to Las Vegas police.
Some beachgoers in Florida saw something a bit unusual this weekend while enjoying a day at the beach — an elephant wading in the water.
The fire that broke out Saturday night above the foothills in southwest Reno had burned more than a square mile of timber, grass and mountain brush by Monday morning.
The price of a ticket at Disneyland is creeping closer to triple-digits. A single-day ticket for either Disneyland Park or Disney California Adventure Park is now $96 for those 10 and up.
Anyone who visits Outback Steakhouse Wednesday or Thursday and says “Moonshine BBQ Wings” to their server can get a free half-order of the wings. The promotion is to introduce the chain’s new menu of items containing real moonshine, which in addition to the wings are ribs, a chopped salad, a skillet apple pie and three cocktails. …
A cyclist that was riding in stage seven of the Tour of California over the weekend thought he had won the stage and celebrated as he crossed the finish line…one lap too early.
Clark County commissioners unanimously approved a $1.2 billion general fund budget on Monday for the upcoming fiscal year.
A Florida couple got quite the surprise last week when they found an Alligator enjoying their pool in the middle of the night.
The AMC television network says it is using the social media site Tumblr to premiere its new series about the early days of personal computing.
Although a top adviser to President Barack Obama said last week in Las Vegas that immigration reform has a chance to pass this year, words and deeds on the Republican side of the House make that an unlikely prospect.
A kitten is lucky to be alive after being found on an Oakland freeway Monday afternoon during rush-hour traffic.
Every awards show producer craves moments, the things they’d love for us to spend our Monday mornings talking about and marveling over. The Billboard Music Awards had a fair number Sunday night — some funny, some weird, some kind of creepy even.
Kurt Busch crashed hard into the outside wall at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Tuesday as his No. 26 car went through the second turn during practice for Sunday’s Indianapolis 500.
Internet gambling in the United States is off to a slower start than many had imagined, but regulators and industry observers expect it will flourish in time.
Passionate about knitting? There’s a club for that. Love guns more than anything? There are clubs for that, too.
McDonald’s debuted a new happy meal mascot today on social media, but the company didn’t get the response it was probably hoping for.
Sunday’s Texas Rangers-Toronto Blue Jays was Prince Fielder bobblehead day and fans attending the game got a free bobblehead of the infielder, but something wasn’t quite right.
Robert Copeland, 82, the police commissioner of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire has resigned after admitting to using racial slurs against President Barack Obama, putting to rest a controversy that drew national attention.
Students from the UNLV Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering showcased their commercially viable projects May 8 at the annual Spring Senior Design Competition.
Harry Reid got some bad press this weekend: One online piece slammed him, while another reported big segments of the population don’t know who he is.
Thousands of Culinary and Bartenders union workers are continuing their threats of a possible strike at downtown Las Vegas casinos.
Going into Monday’s last dances on “Dancing With the Stars,” Johnny Avello, director of race and sports operations at Wynn Las Vegas, has listed Amy Purdy, the Cimarron-Memorial grad, and her parter, Derek Hough, the favorites at 7-5.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a motorcyclist killed in Sunday’s accident in northeast Las Vegas.