For all the screaming and carrying on, their neighbors thought they’d won the lottery. But it was a lumpy old sofa stuffed with $40,000 in cash that had three young roommates raising a ruckus.
Aaron Hernandez ambushed and shot to death two men after a chance encounter inside a Boston nightclub weeks before he signed a five-year, $40 million contract with the New England Patriots, prosecutors said Thursday.
A London skyscraper that drew ire for having a glare so strong it melted nearby cars and shops will get a permanent fix.
Henderson hasn’t decided when to put a property tax increase on the ballot, but has determined any new money would go to capital improvements, not employee pay, City Manager Jacob Snow said Thursday.
After a high-pressure pipe burst, spewing 10,000 gallons of crude oil into the streets of L.A., businesses were evacuated, sending some to the hospital with respiratory issues and causing drivers to abandon their oil-covered vehicles.
A year after the Howard Hughes Corp. broke ground on Downtown Summerlin, a 1.6 million-square-foot retail and shopping environment near Charleston Boulevard and the 215 Beltway, the company announced an Oct. 9 opening for the development.
Towbin Fiat of Las Vegas, the newest dealership in the Towbin Automotive Group, celebrated Mother’s Day with a “May Soirée Sales Event” to showcase the four-door Fiat 500L. The event was held at the dealership at 2550 S. Jones Blvd., south of Sahara Avenue.
Southern Nevada businessman Victor Ayala has been in Las Vegas since 1970. He has been a hairstylist for the past 44 years.
Perryn Hale is persistent. Although the Martin Middle School coach and algebra/geometry teacher had a notable run of bad luck, he remains relentlessly positive.
Signs in McCarran International Airport that advertise to tourists the shows they might want to attend in Las Vegas have been joined by a poster from the CDC that warns travelers about a MERS virus they should stay away from.
A slightly slimmed down Southern Nevada Water Authority expects to bring in additional money and spend a little more of it in the coming year. Authority board members approved a $463.3 million spending plan Thursday for the valley’s wholesale water supply agency. The new budget anticipates a $36.4 million jump in revenue and a $9.5 million increase in spending over the current budget.
An Arizona waitress was given a surprise $1,000 tip from patrons in April, which couldn’t have come at a better time.
Top leaders of the Department of Veterans Affairs are failing to hold agency officials in Nevada accountable for flaws and shortcomings in providing service to local veterans, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., charged Thursday.
Kazuya Murata is a master of his craft: the yo-yo. He’s so good, the 6-year-old already has a nickname.
The song scheduled to play after New Jersey’s Gov. Chris Christie’s remarks at the Sept. 11 museum dedication was changed from “Bridge Over Troubled Water” last minute, potentially saving him from embarassment, social media speculates.
After a nearly-six year ownership, German investment house Deutsche Bank announced Thursday it was parting ways with the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, the stylish — but unprofitable — Strip hotel-casino and the last megaresort to open after the recession tore apart the gaming industry.
A northern Ohio teenager is reeling in attention for a big catch after he spotted a 3-foot carp swimming in receding floodwaters on his street and scooped it into his arms as his mother caught the scene on video.
A year-old proposed constitutional amendment designed to counter a string of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that loosened restrictions on money in politics will get a hearing next month, with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s full support.
Now that we’ve had a couple days to digest Michael Jackson’s posthumous album, “Xscape,” we’re being hit with a music video for the album’s lead single, “Love Never Felt So Good.”
The Nevada Division of Forestry put the restrictions into effect Thursday for Big Bend, the Spring Mountains and Valley of Fire. The use of campfires using wood is prohibited — bring your camping stove and propane instead, or charcoal if you’re in a designated picnic area.
The Venetian is bundling 14 female stand-ups into a series launching in July.
A truck was destroyed after it collided with a low overpass in Nassau County, New York. And it was all caught on video.
Southern Nevada’s primary terrorism preparedness program will see nearly $1.1 million in funding in the coming federal fiscal year under a grant allocation plan approved Thursday by the state Homeland Security Commission.
CARSON CITY — The state Department of Wildlife wants anglers to catch as many fish as they can at two Nevada reservoirs before water levels and fish survival plummet.
The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks led directly to the Iraqi War, although the evidence shows they should not have.
Disney’s feel-good “Million Dollar Arm” hits theaters this weekend, which forced us to take a look at five great sports movies that will hit you right in the feels.
Casey Kasem was located in Washington state on Wednesday, three days after a Los Angeles judge expressed concerns about the ailing radio host’s whereabouts and safety amid a dispute between his wife and children from another marriage.
Las Vegas police on Thursday asked for the public’s help in finding two men who they think were involved in a robbery and shooting earlier this month.
Segregation is making a comeback in U.S. schools. Progress toward integrated classrooms has largely been rolled back since the Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision 60 years ago, according to a new report.