Two people were arrested on suspicion of felony theft after police said one of them swallowed a stolen ring in an attempt to hide it.
When a street is named for someone, it’s usually the person’s full name or the last name that is used. Not so with Alexander Road, which runs east and west and is located north of Cheyenne Avenue. It was named for Alexander Coblentz.
As the XpressWest and X Train passenger rail projects look to regroup, supporters of Southern Nevada’s original high-speed plan — the maglev — are seeing an opportunity to re-enter the game.
Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst and pop singer Ariana Grande are among a list of dozens of celebrity women who had hundreds of nude and risque photos posted on the Internet overnight.
A Marine Corps helicopter with 25 aboard crashed Monday in the Gulf of Aden, and all aboard were rescued, the Navy said.
With so many different types of investments available today, there are plenty of opportunities available to properly diversify your money. So how do you diversify for today’s market place? Here are general guidelines to follow… the five “D”s of diversification.
Cole Hamels and three Philadelphia Phillies relievers combined to pitch a no-hitter Monday, beating the Atlanta Braves 7-0 and giving a last-place team a rare reason to celebrate.
A baseball fan took up smoking a century ago and with it acquired another habit: holding onto little cards that bore the faces of baseball’s earliest greats.
Mountain Ridge and the 15 other teams define the best Little League has to offer on the field. But the sponsorship banners flying above the park remind everyone that the Little League tournament is also big business.
It’s become a local market truism: If you want a new home, prepare to drop $100,000 more than you’d shell out for a resale. But new research — admittedly sought out by home builders — shows that pricing gap may be overstated.
The U.S. government on Monday requested that the North Korean government release three U.S. citizens currently detained there “out of humanitarian concern” and grant one of them special amnesty to seek medical care.
A special education teacher accused of killing her severely disabled 8-year-old daughter by withholding food and medical care could inherit nearly $1 million from the girl’s trust fund — even if she’s convicted.
The struggling Houston Astros fired manager Bo Porter and bench coach Dave Trembley on Monday, bringing in Tom Lawless as the interim manager for the rest of the 2014 season.
UNLV’s football team plays Northern Colorado at 7 p.m. Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium. Here are five things to look for in that game.
A Southern California high school has retired a controversial Arab mascot. The bearded, snarling mascot with a large hooked nose who wears a head scarf did not appear at Coachella Valley High School’s season opening football game on Friday.
Where your olive oil comes from doesn’t matter as much as when it was picked (green off the tree) and how it was processed (two to four hours after harvest). So says Mercedes Burkavage, who co-owns Big Horn Olive Oil Company, a retail olive oil and balsamic tasting room that recently opened its first Las Vegas location at 2110 N. Rampart Blvd.
All five people aboard a small plane that crashed near an airport north of Denver have died, a spokesman for the National Transportation Board said.
Donald and Shelly Sterling may have their differences thanks to the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers, but that didn’t stop the two from being seen together in Las Vegas.
The economy has wreaked havoc on William Jacob’s career as a chef. Now the state is taking his taqueria but he hasn’t lost hope.
Police in the St. Louis suburb where a white officer shot and killed an unarmed 18-year-old have started wearing body cameras.
Joel Kielbowicz, who played at Green Valley and UNLV, had been grinding away in the fringes and the margins and the pro tennis hinterlands. Last week, he and his mixed doubles partner Jacqueline Cako played in the U.S. Open.
Clark County, following through on a deal made in 2008, is expected Tuesday to finalize the purchase the Metropolitan Police Department’s new headquarters complex from the owner for about $208.3 million.
The seven local Auto Tech shops are being converted to the Meineke brand, doubling the national auto repair franchiser’s footprint in Southern Nevada.
Two airlines are promising new flights to Las Vegas before the end of the year. Virgin Atlantic Airlines, which offers nonstop flights to McCarran International Airport from London’s Gatwick International and Manchester, England, plans to experiment with weekly nonstop round trips on Wednesdays from Glasgow, Scotland, during the month of September.