David Modler went 2-for-5 with a double, three runs and four RBIs on Thursday to lead Rancho to a 9-5 win over Pomona (Colo.) in the opening game of the American Legion Western Regional in Surprise, Ariz.
Tim Tebow still wants — and trains for — another NFL opportunity. Still, while the 26-year-old free agent quarterback waits for another chance to play professional football, he isn’t about to let a potential dream job pass him by.
Former Democratic Assemblyman Steven Brooks was ordered held on $50,000 bail Thursday on a domestic battery case from last year.
The troupe’s 2014-15 season, themed “#LeadUsNot,” includes two world premieres — one of them to be staged at a local motel — and the local debut of “Spring Awakening,” the Tony-winning rock musical.
The man who was found dead underneath construction equipment on July 31 in Laughlin was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office on Thursday.
Here’s a look at this week’s new movies, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Into the Storm,” “Step Up All In,” “The Hundred-Foot Journey,” “Boyhood,” “Deepsea Challenge 3D” and “I Origins”:
Here are a few tidbits from the pop culture world that happened to catch our eye.
After the unanimous Clark County Commission vote Wednesday, Jackie Robinson hugged brother, Charles. Moments earlier, commissioners — acting as the zoning board — approved a $1.3 billion resort and arena project at the old Wet ‘n Wild site next to SLS Las Vegas on the north end of the Strip.
Landon Donovan says he will retire from professional soccer at the end of the MLS season.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling requiring Las Vegas Sands Corp. turn over documents in the company’s ongoing legal dispute with Steve Jacobs, who served as head of the company’s Macau operations until he was let go in 2010.
Nevada’s Disabled American Veteran chapter will donate two Ford Flex vans Thursday to the Veterans Affairs Southern Nevada Healthcare System so local veterans will have transportation to area VA facilities
Three women accused of trying to smuggle a cell phone into High Desert State Prison for accused Strip shooter Ammar Harris appeared in a Las Vegas courtroom Thursday.
Producer Spiegelworld filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit Wednesday that accuses The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas of “sabotaging” the “Vegas Nocturne” show and shuttering its performances at the Strip resort.
Las Vegas police are looking for an armed man involved in a Friday night robbery.
Russia banned most food imports from the West on Thursday in retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine, an unexpectedly sweeping move that will cost farmers billions of dollars but will likely lead to empty shelves in Russian cities.
The crew aboard a New Zealand fishing boat on Thursday hauled up a surprising and gruesome catch: a small plane with a body inside.
When Tom Skancke was approached by an alliance of business and community leaders nearly two years ago, he wasn’t looking for a new job. His is now CEO of the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance.
While most people are familiar with the role organized crime played in the casino industry in Las Vegas, the connections between the mafia here and in Cuba are often overlooked.
Read about news and events from across the Summerlin area.
Former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden, who is wanted by the U.S. for leaking details about once-secret surveillance programs, has been granted permission to stay in Russia for three more years, his lawyer said Thursday.
There are lot of crummy things going on in the world of late. This is one of them.
When Pat Mulroy first became the general manager for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, someone tried to redirect her to the spouses’ lounge. Many such stories were heard at the MGM Resorts Foundation’s annual Women’s Leadership Conference.
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Former Long Beach State head coach Max Good was hired this week as a special assistant to UNLV head coach Dave Rice, bringing to the Rebels a veteran presence the team has desperately needed since Rice assumed control of the program in 2011.
Judith Nies doesn’t leave the environmental optimists and desert daydreamers among us much room for hope in her new book, “Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa and the Fate of the West.”
I took 164 minutes out of a recent vacation and dropped $32.54 to see “Boyhood.” It was worth every second. And every penny.
They were two of Boulder City’s most well-known residents, but there isn’t much left at Henry and Ocie Bradley’s historic address atop a hill near Avenue I.
Produce choices available at farmers markets are now reaching their peak. So how can you make the most of this seasonal bounty?
More Americans than ever are using their mobile devices for banking. You may be surprised at the complex transactions you can do through mobile banking.
Frank and Dolores Kology have a goal. They want to walk to the North Pole. It’s a tongue-in-cheek goal, but it is still quite an effort for the couple. He’s 93, and she’s 91. Their trek begins from their Sun City Summerlin home. They walk a circuit of 1½ miles every night. It’s something they’ve done for the past three years without fail.