More than 250 construction jobs are coming to North Las Vegas as the city and the Regional Transportation Commission announced $18.3 million worth of transportation improvement projects Tuesday.
Acting courteous, even when arresting someone, has paid dividends for the Alaska State Troopers. KTVA reports a 49-year-old Anchorage man wanted on several felony warrants decided to turn himself in to troopers Friday after watching an episode of the reality show “Alaska State Troopers” on the National Geographic Channel.
Game 2 of the finals at the College World Series is tonight. Virginia vs. Vanderbilt. Hopefully it’ll be a good game. Maybe it’ll even be a great game. Will it be the Greatest College Baseball Game Ever Played? Probably not. That one already is spoken for.
“If you go to a real hardcore show, they’re doing this wild, swinging-punching thing.”
One person was in critical condition after being dragged by a car Tuesday morning, Las Vegas police said.
Take a stab at exactly who was at EDC. Twenty-somethings? Check. Old school ravers? Check. Circus performers? Check. Locals? Not so much.
New Jersey casino regulators have begun their review of a Canadian company that’s buying the PokerStars online gambling website and hoping to get it licensed in Atlantic City by this fall.
Extremists have abducted 91 more people, including toddlers as young as 3, in weekend attacks on villages in Nigeria, witnesses said Tuesday, providing fresh evidence of the military’s failure to curb an Islamic uprising and the government’s inability to provide security.
It would be hard to find a player more worthy of the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy than New York Rangers center Dominic Moore — who returned to the NHL this season after taking a leave of absence from the league in the spring of 2012 to care for his wife, Katie, after she’d been diagnosed with a rare form of liver cancer.
Georgios Samaras scored an injury-time penalty to put Greece into the second round of the World Cup with a 2-1 win over Ivory Coast on Tuesday.
James Rodriguez scored a brilliant goal and set up two more for Jackson Martinez as Colombia routed Japan 4-1 on Tuesday to confirm top spot in Group C and eliminate the Asian champions from the World Cup.
The new Middle Eastern drama, debuting at 10 p.m. Tuesday, has a few problems, most alarmingly the presence of the main character’s teenage children.
A Georgia man faces charges of felony murder and child cruelty after his 22-month-old son died Wednesday. Police have said Justin Ross Harris told investigators he was supposed to drive his son to daycare, but drove straight to work and didn’t realize the boy was strapped in his car seat until the ride home Wednesday afternoon, hours later.
Six months after federal unemployment checks were cut off for more than a million Americans, two senators launched a new bid on Tuesday to renew payments to people still unable to find work.
Sheldon Adelson put Nevada on the map. Well, this map, at least.
U.S. Rep. Dina Titus of Nevada and two of her colleagues on the House Veterans Affairs Committee proposed a bill this week to create 2,000 residency programs at VA facilities in Las Vegas and elsewhere to curb a shortage of doctors.
A recent fan-generated poll on www.rottentomatoes.com indicates that of the 10 most-anticipated movies this summer, six are sequels. With that in mind, here are three sequels that somehow managed to live up to the considerable hype.
It’s not quite game over since the Nov. 4 general election is still more than four months away, but a new poll of likely Nevada voters confirms that Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval is headed toward an easy re-election.
The U.S. government deprived 13 people on its no-fly list of their constitutional right to travel and gave them no adequate way to challenge their placement on the list, a federal judge said Tuesday.
FIFA has hailed the TV rating in the United States for the World Cup match between the Americans and Portugal as a milestone for the sport.
Here are three new CDs you need: Mastodon’s melodic “Once More ‘Round The Sun,” Strand of Oaks’ feel-good “HEAL” and Jad Fair & Danielson’s smily “Solid Gold Heart.”
Police are investigating a stabbing death that happened early Saturday morning in Laughlin home.
The state’s highest court ruled Tuesday that voters can decide the fate of the casino gambling law, throwing the future of casinos in Massachusetts into question.
Lingering drought is taking a toll on wildlife across Northern Nevada, shrinking deer herds on the high desert, drying up fisheries in the valleys and starting to push everything from bears to snakes into urban neighborhoods they normally don’t frequent.
Fried chicken chain KFC said a franchised restaurant in Mississippi has hired an investigator to look into claims that an employee asked a 3-year-old girl and family members to leave because injuries she suffered in a pit bull mauling disturbed customers.
Carlos Enrique Barron was ordered to serve five years probation for firing his gun during a confrontation with a production crew from a reality TV program.
Most fathers would do anything for their daughter, right? That’s certainly a true statement in 12-year-old McKenzie Carey’s case — her father helps her perform her dance routines in pageants because she can’t do it alone.
A pastor who presided over his son’s same-sex wedding ceremony and vowed to perform other gay marriages if asked can return to the pulpit after a United Methodist Church appeals panel on Tuesday overturned a decision to defrock him.
Costa Rica finished first in what many considered the World Cup’s toughest group after a dour 0-0 draw against a second-string England side Tuesday.
Captain Diego Godin scored in the 81st minute as Uruguay edged 10-man Italy 1-0 Tuesday to reach the second round of the World Cup, although the victory was overshadowed by a biting incident involving the South American side’s star forward Luis Suarez.