The No. 1 overall pick in this year’s NBA Draft made a strong impression in his Vegas Summer League debut hours after LeBron James announced he was returning to Cleveland, leading the Cavaliers with 18 points in a 70-68 win over Milwaukee and Jabari Parker at a sold-out Cox Pavilion
She’s got a black belt in taekwondo. She once lived in a women’s shelter. Now she’s Miss USA. How much butt can one woman kick?
Homicide detectives were investigating the death of a child in the southeast valley on Friday night. Las Vegas police spokesman Larry Hadfield said officers were called to a home near the intersection of Harmon Avenue and Pecos Road just after 7 p.m.
North Las Vegas police are investigating a crash that left a child in critical condition Friday night. Just after 9 p.m., an 8-year-old girl was crossing Commerce Street, near Lake Mead Boulevard, when she was struck by a gray truck, said North Las Vegas police spokesman Aaron Patty.
Buying a .22-caliber rifle to protect her children was the “stupidest thing” Shavon Carrillo said she ever did. Early Memorial Day morning, Las Vegas police said Carrillo, 31, grabbed the rifle and pointed it at her 11-year-old son, Israel, who was in a sleeping bag. She told him, ”I love you,” and shot him once through the head, according to a Las Vegas police report.
There’s something about gritty downtown’s rebirth that seems familiar to Irish artist Graham Knuttel.
You see them all around the Vegas Summer League — earnest-looking, college-age young adults in black shorts and white shirts posting signs at Thomas and Mack Center. They’re the 50 interns performing the tasks to keep the 11-day summer league humming at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ Thomas & Mack and Cox Pavilion.
Street-side viewing of the annual Rose Parade isn’t the only free thing to attract visitors to Pasadena, Calif., a mere 10 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.
Clark County firefighters would get a 1.5 percent cost-of-living pay increase under a tentative agreement reached between county management and the firefighters’ union.
Southern Nevada residents can expect to hear the thunder of military fighter jets and bombers as about 100 aircraft head north from Nellis Air Force Base to the skies over the Nevada Test and Training Range to participate in Red Flag training exercises beginning Monday.
Las Vegas High small forward Re”;Kwon Smith, who was quickly becoming a top priority in the class of 2015 for college coaches, suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament on Thursday night at the Adidas Unrivaled Camp in Chicago.
“Walk Like An Egyptian.” It became the definitive hit for The Bangles. Thing was, though, didn’t really define them.
It seems the San Antonio Spurs are taking every step possible to make sure the air conditioning fiasco that happened during Game 1 of the NBA Finals at AT&T Center never happens again.
Bruce Gilbert, the new executive director of the Silver State Health Exchange, says he’s undaunted by the big job of fixing the troubled Obamacare agency
A man is dead following a Friday morning shooting in North Las Vegas, police said. First responders were sent to a business in the 500 block of West Cheyenne Ave. about 9 a.m.
A Las Vegas man injured while trying to set a Guinness world record for jumping through tempered glass filed a federal lawsuit this week that accuses truTV of failing to properly maintain his equipment.
Harry Potter actor David Legeno was found dead in Death Valley Sunday. Legeno, 50, famously appeared as werewolf Fenrir Greyback in multiple Harry Potter movies.
Harry Reid is the da Vinci of distraction. The moment any scandal, policy failure or political defeat crashes down on him — and there have been plenty the past few years — the Senate majority leader unleashes outrageous rhetoric that’s better suited for a sandbox than what once passed for the world’s greatest deliberative body. Worse, the Nevada Democrat has become especially fond of slinging race cards just to crank up the outrage.
Many Las Vegas residents probably go their whole lives without a mountain lion sighting, but UNLV doctoral researcher David Choate seeks out the big cats on purpose.
UNLV took three paths to gets it Academic Progress Rate score up to 930 and regain bowl eligibility. But the work is not done to keep the number up there in future years.
A Republican can’t win the White House in 2016 unless the GOP presidential nominee offers a positive vision for the future instead of criticizing Democratic policies, former national GOP leader Michael Steele and Steve Forbes said Friday at a Las Vegas forum.
Two people familiar with the situation say that Chris Bosh has agreed to a maximum deal with the Miami Heat. The people said that Bosh will be getting a five-year deal worth about $118 million.
Unlike most every other series about vampires, there’s absolutely nothing sexy about the bloodsuckers of Sunday’s new drama from Guillermo del Toro and “Lost’s” Carlton Cuse.
HONG KONG — A former Macau business partner of Las Vegas Sands Corp. accused the casino operator of misappropriating trade secrets and is suing the company for at least $5 billion in profits that it says are owed via their joint ownership of copyright related to a casino license bid.
Nevada wildlife officials say a black bear with a rap sheet had to be killed after it turned up at Lake Tahoe again this week posing a safety threat to beachgoers.
Opening a restaurant off the Strip is a new frontier for Andy Masi, CEO of The Light Group, a Las Vegas-based restaurant company known for its upscale Strip hotel restaurants like FIX and Yellowtail in Bellagio, Red Square and Diablo’s Cantina in Mandalay Bay, and STACK at The Mirage.
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Southwest Vegas food hall closing only a year after opening
‘Top Chef’ stars to close Las Vegas Strip pop-up restaurant
Wynn’s plans to build a third tower on Strip still alive
Fontainebleau signs ‘once in a generation talent’ to residency deal
The Eagles add more shows to series at Sphere in Las Vegas