UNLV was picked to finish seventh in the Mountain West women’s soccer preseason poll. The Rebels received 55 points in voting by coaches.
A former Las Vegas Sin player has filed a class-action lawsuit accusing the Legends Football League, formerly the Lingerie Football League, of failing to pay the required minimum wage and overtime to hundreds of employees.
Former UNLV basketball player Clint Clausen dies of a heart attack at age 44.
The father of a slain 6-year-old Washington girl says he forgives the 17-year-old neighbor suspected of killing her, and he is leaning on his religion following her death.
Arizona State offensive lineman Edward “Chip” Sarafin has told a local magazine he is gay, making him the first active Division I football player to come out.
Seven years after gunfire struck her on the Strip, Brittany O’Dale said she still endures pain every day. “It’s just been an ongoing horror since then,” she testified Wednesday in the trial for the alleged gunman, reputed Las Vegas gang member Robert Jackson.
Lake Mead will get more water from its upstream neighbor in the coming year, but not enough to halt its decline, according to new projections released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
Brady Exber, 58, of Las Vegas, won the British Senior Amateur by four strokes last week at Ganton Golf Club in Ganton, North Yorkshire, England.
The NBA regular season will open Oct. 28, with the NBA champion San Antonio Spurs hosting the Dallas Mavericks in one of the three games that night.
Limousine drivers operating with the new Ride Genie smartphone application system say the process of requesting a ride will get easier for customers who use the service.
Robin Williams’ daughter has abandoned her online social media accounts in disgust following what she called “cruel and unnecessary” messages following her father’s death, a move that has prompted Twitter to explore how it handles such situations.
A status hearing has been postponed for a 24-year-old man accused of killing and dismembering several dogs, leaving a gruesome scene in a Northern Nevada motel room.
On U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s to-do list during the Senate’s summer break: Unpack at his new home in Henderson.
More than 350 long-term substitutes joined more than 1,200 newly hired teachers to take part in orientation as the district works to fill a shortage of more than 600 teachers.
Tim Crowley, president of the Nevada Mining Association for the past six years, is leaving the organization to create his own public affairs agency.
The state Transportation Board, with Gov. Brian Sandoval as chairman, is expected to decide how to move forward with the project, which could end up costing as much as $1.3 billion and be the largest in the history of the state Department of Transportation.
Pop singer Justin Bieber’s guilty plea to charges of careless driving and resisting arrest puts an end to a legal saga that began seven months ago inside a rented Lamborghini at what police called an illegal drag race.
The Boston gangster, convicted a year ago Tuesday, is the subject of “Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger.”
The Metropolitan Police Department will pay $15,000 to settle a civil rights case stemming from a 2007 arrest at McCarran International Airport.
Event highlights this week include a Chillin’ with Santa Hawaiian Luau luncheon, a concert by the Barry Ross Quartet and an open house at the Landero Learning Center.
ATLANTIC CITY — A day after announcing it will shut down next month, Revel told a bankruptcy court judge it is still negotiating with potential buyers.
You’ll make new friends at school, maybe even a new best friend, but be careful what you ask for. In the new book “First Day at Zoo School” by Sarah Dillard, Alfred’s new BFF is B-A-D.
Brigham Young University will now be without two players for its season opener reportedly due to Honor Code violations.
The joint practice between the Oakland Raiders and Dallas Cowboys went just about how the coaches scripted it Tuesday with high intensity in an emotional environment.
Literary events this will include a romance writers meeting featuring Chris Marie Green and a teen book club meeting with a visit from “Killing Ruby Rose” author Jessie Humphries.
Henderson author Anna Mae Zuccari-Teitelbaum takes readers on a haunted ride through the dreams of a woman recovering from a sleeping pill overdose in the novel “You’ll Never Know or Will You?” Visions of the horrors of her life from abuse during childhood to ongoing domestic problems fill her head as she fights to regain her life. Zuccari-Teitelbaum is also the author of the children’s book “The Land of Cukoa: The Adventure of the Missing Cuckoo.”
Here’s a look at this week’s new movies, “The Giver,” “The Expendables 3,” “Magic in the Moonlight” and “What If” (“Let’s Be Cops” opened Wednesday):
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, speaking in Las Vegas on Wednesday, predicted Democrats will hold onto control of the Senate in this year’s election, especially if union members fight to help get the word out that Republicans are “simply not interested in helping American families.”
Law enforcement agencies gathered more than 6,000 marijuana plants from what they called “gardens” in the mountains of Lincoln County earlier this week. The two-day raid north of Las Vegas involved about 50 officers from Lincoln and White Pine counties, Las Vegas, Henderson and North Las Vegas police, the Nevada National Guard, the Bureau of Land Management and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Las Vegas City Hall phones and Internet were down for about an hour Wednesday but came back up about 12:45 p.m.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in mysterious lawsuit
Fiery wrong-way crash kills 2, shuts down 215 in northwest Las Vegas
Woman arrested after police say she climbed on Reno craps table, threw chips at people
Asian grocery store looks to add new location near Summerlin
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school