The officer who shot a suspect in an early Saturday string of convenience-store robberies knew the man to be armed and “very violent,” North Las Vegas police said on Friday afternoon. Police on Friday were still looking for two additional people in the case.
Martin Vasquez scored the game-winner off a free kick early in the second half Friday to lift Western’s boys soccer team to a 2-1 win at Cheyenne.
Ariel Blockovich had five kills, 16 assists, five aces and five digs Friday to help Desert Oasis’ girls volleyball team to a 25-19, 25-8, 25-17 sweep of visiting Eldorado.
Chloe Henderson and Kristen Newell each went 3-0 in singles, and Palo Verde’s girls tennis team swept the nine doubles sets Friday en route to a 17-1 win over visiting Bishop Gorman in a rematch of last year’s Division I state final.
Nevada’s public schools ratings were released Friday, along with detailed data on student performance, discipline and staffing for the 2013-14 school year that’s used by the Nevada Department of Education to assign one to five stars to 633 campuses.
The son of Robert Downey Jr. pleaded guilty on Friday to cocaine possession and was sentenced to a drug diversion program that could result in his conviction being dismissed.
A teen was wounded in a northwest valley shooting Friday evening, Las Vegas police said. The girl, 17, was shot in the left knee as she was walking up steps.
A 16-year-old boy was arrested at Mohave High School Thursday afternoon in connection with a Sept. 5 shooting that left a woman dead.
A Michigan woman caused a social media firestorm after she mistakenly thought her husband had been discriminated against for his military uniform by a man she described as Arabic.
Ultimate Fighting Championship star Nick Diaz was arrested Sept. 6 on suspicion of DUI in his hometown of Lodi, Calif., according to several reports.
Two Las Vegas residents claim North Las Vegas police violated their civil rights in September 2013 by fatally shooting their dogs.
Customers may have to wait three to four weeks to get their hands on Apple Inc’s iPhone 6 Plus, after a record number of orders for the company’s latest smartphones strained available supply.
A Bullhead City, Ariz., man arrested in the strangulation death of his friend’s young daughter was formally indicted Thursday by a Mohave County grand jury convened in Kingman.
Scientists announced on Thursday the discovery in Moroccan desert cliffs of new fossil remains of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, a 50-foot (15-meter) long, seven-ton African monster that breaks the mold for how a dinosaur predator looked and behaved.
The Nevada Legislature unanimously approved new legislation that will give Tesla Motors more than $1.3 billion in incentives to build a battery factory outside Reno. But has anything really changed in the Silver State?
Ultimate Fighting Championship recently sent a message to anyone thinking about pirating its fight show content: We will hunt you down.
The four children of an instructor who was killed at a northwestern Arizona shooting range used a 2½-minute video posted Friday to reach out to the 9-year-old girl who accidentally shot him.
Traffic in the area of Main Street and Foremaster Lane was shut down for at least two hours Friday afternoon following a vehicle-versus-bicycle accident near the intersection.
HGH testing is coming to the NFL this season. Player representatives to the union voted Friday to implement testing for human growth hormone for the 2014 NFL season.
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A 19-year-old man was indicted by a Clark County grand jury Friday in connection with the fatal shooting of his friend last year.
Both Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Marcos Maidana made weight for their world welterweight title rematch Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden.
For years, Interbike, the U.S. bicycle industry’s premier trade show, held annually in Las Vegas, has been all about bicycle shop owners visiting bike manufacturers and ordering new inventory from exhibitors.
While many business owners are getting back in the saddle after the great recession crumbled the economy, others are facing another kind of hurdle: getting out of the business.
ATLANTIC CITY — Don Guardian won election as mayor of this seaside city last year by telling voters that fixing a government budget crisis requires a three-year-to-four-year plan.
A California Highway Patrol officer videotaped repeatedly punching a woman on the side of a Los Angeles freeway had just pulled her from oncoming traffic and she resisted by pushing him, a patrol investigator said.
