The Golden Gate Bridge moved a big step closer to getting a suicide barrier after bridge officials on Friday approved a $76 million funding package for a net system that would prevent people from jumping to their deaths.
Khem Birch was not picked Thursday in the NBA Draft, but the former UNLV forward picked his spot less than 24 hours later. He is signing as a free agent with the Washington Wizards.
Leslie M. Kotler, a veteran Henderson cosmetic dentist, has pleaded guilty in a $437,456 tax evasion scheme.
Police in Turlock, Calif., said on Friday they found a family of four dead inside a home in what appeared to be a murder-suicide.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship hosts two events Saturday for the second time in the organization’s history.
Two neighbors are being credited with saving the life of a 5-year-old boy whose father was killed in a fire at their Buffalo apartment.
To some, Suzuki means a car; to others, it’s an electric keyboard. To Cynthia Man, a resident of northwest Las Vegas, it means hearing music played by young musicians. Man is the artistic director of the Desert Suzuki Institute, which instructs young students in violin, piano and flute.
ALBANY, N.Y. — Visitors to New York’s racetrack casinos may soon be able to gamble until the sun comes up under a proposal to let racinos stay open until 6 a.m.
The moment NBA commissioner Adam Silver drafted Baylor’s Isaiah Austin on Thursday night — the NBA was the true winner of the evening.
BOSTON — State gambling regulators agreed Friday to hear arguments next week and possibly rule on Boston Mayor Martin Walsh’s request to suspend the eastern region casino license process until after the November election.
The city of Henderson recently welcomed two new parks to the community. Mountain Lake Park, 1020 Golda Way, and Terrazza Park, 1992 Galleria Drive, — Henderson’s 59th and 60th parks — were recently completed. The parks are also accompanied by the completion of the Lake Mead Parkway Trail.
PHILADELPHIA — Penn National Gaming Inc. has abandoned its bid to build a $480 million casino in south Philadelphia, leaving four applicants still in the running for the city’s second casino license.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, student leaders on Friday sent a letter to Hillary Clinton’s family foundation asking that she “do what is right” and donate all or part of her $225,000 speaking fee for addressing the UNLV Foundation back to the university for student benefit.
Senators Harry Reid and Rand Paul have found common ground on a bill to restore voting rights to ex-felons who have served their time.
A man already awaiting trial on murder charges has been indicted on a dozen other charges in an unrelated robbery, prosecutors said Friday.
The Utah Shakespeare Festival officially launched Monday in Cedar City, Utah. Four of the Bard’s works — “Twelfth Night,” “Comedy of Errors,” “Measure for Measure” and “Henry IV Part One” — anchor the summer lineup.
The officer involved in the shooting that killed a knife-wielding woman early Wednesday morning has been identified by the Metropolitan Police Department as Officer Sergio MPhillips.
“Under the Electric Sky,” a 3-D documentary about the Electric Daisy Carnival, shot at EDC 2013, opens today at AMC Town Square 18.
Slot machine giant Bally Technologies became the second gaming equipment manufacturer this year to lay off a portion of its global workforce, but said Friday the move was associated with its $1.3 billion purchase of a rival rather than poor sales numbers.
A California couple can’t seem to get rid of the live-in nanny that they fired — even after serving her legal papers.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. said Friday it would close one of four casinos the Las Vegas-based company operates in Atlantic City, shutting down operations of the Showboat on Aug. 31.
U.S. Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., said Friday there’s still a chance Congress will pass immigration reform this year although “it’s on life support.”
A California man visiting Las Vegas for the Electric Daisy Carnival died Wednesday, John Fudenberg, of the Clark County coroner’s office, said Friday.
Southern Nevada’s tourism economy continues to fire on all cylinders as May’s visitor volume climbed 3.2 percent from last year to 3.6 million people.
A former police officer in Wisconsin is suspected in the deaths of two women found stuffed in suitcases along a rural Wisconsin highway.
A New Jersey woman kicked and pummeled a mother in front of her toddler as at least one witness recorded video but did nothing to stop the savage beating, police said Thursday.
A soldier was in for a surprise on Friday when he boarded a plane from Detroit to Los Angeles and headed for his seat in coach.
The cable channel will air 25 of the most popular episodes of the series, which got off to a less-than-auspicious start on July 5, 1989.
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