A leak in a gas line disrupted traffic and caused major delays most of the day on Las Vegas Boulevard near the Las Vegas Premium Outlets mall.
About half of his summer was spent with family, and the rest of his time was spent in a gym with a basketball. Kendall Smith said he used no time searching for an escape route after a rocky freshman season at UNLV.
Without notifying trustees, Clark County School District officials stamped School Board President Erin Cranor’s signature on a six-figure check that got her dropped from a lawsuit alleging she went rogue to cut short a health consultant’s contract with the district.
Leticia Ibarra’s goal in the final minute of the match Wednesday lifted Chaparral’s girls soccer team to a 2-1 win over visiting Del Sol.
Buster Posey drove in three runs and the San Francisco Giants took advantage of some clunky defense by St. Louis first baseman Matt Adams, beating the Cardinals 6-4 on Wednesday night to move within one victory of the World Series.
Katie Ladlie loves her T-shirt that reads: “This Shirt Cost Me an Arm and a Leg.”
The UNLV golf program has been known to receive national recognition annually.
Bullhead City police arrested the mother and stepfather of an 8-year-old girl who was slain six weeks ago on felony drug charges involving meth Wednesday night.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff is investigating actor Stephen Collins, former “7th Heaven” star, on an allegation of indecent exposure or molesting a teenage girl three decades ago, the department said on Wednesday.
Jackson Dietrich had two goals and an assist Wednesday to lead Foothill’s boys soccer team to a 4-2 win over visiting Coronado.
GOP lieutenant governor candidate Mark Hutchison on Wednesday turned his Democratic opponent Lucy Flores’ main criticism back on her in a debate, saying she’s the one who represents the “status quo.”
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Two high school soccer coaches in eastern Pennsylvania have resigned after their players hurled Ebola taunts at an opponent from West Africa.
The monsoon season is over, the crowds have gone, and the daytime temperatures are ideal — perfect conditions for a fall trip to Lake Powell. The lake, which boasts more than 1,800 miles of shoreline, lies within the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, on the border of Arizona and Utah. The lake was created when the Glen Canyon Dam was built. Although the dam was, and still is, a controversial topic for many, the lake it created has become an outdoor person’s paradise.
During your next hotel stay, would you give up clean sheets in exchange for food vouchers or discounted Internet access?
A New York City prosecutor will ask a judge on Wednesday to vacate 28-year-old murder convictions against two men whose cause was later championed by boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, saying they were convicted on confessions that were coerced.
A second Dallas nurse caught Ebola from a patient and flew across the Midwest aboard an airliner the day before she fell ill, even though government guidelines should have kept her off the plane.
Anyone with a gun and a grudge can get into the state Department of Administration’s Hearings Division building without stepping through a metal detector or passing a guard.
It’s not every day you see a 6-foot-tall bird running in traffic. But Tustin police say that was the report Tuesday morning when an emu got loose from a backyard pen.
Though Christopher Nolan is not returning to the “Batman” franchise and Daniel Radcliffe is unlikely to reprise his Harry Potter role, Warner Bros. clearly sees plenty of life left in its most lucrative properties.
Actor Neil Patrick Harris will host next year’s Academy Awards ceremony, the organizers of Hollywood’s biggest night said on Wednesday.
A state lawmaker who got into a shootout with a 15-year-old boy who was trying to rob him near Pennsylvania’s Capitol said Wednesday the experience proves the value of packing a gun.
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The Dallas Cowboys are no longer America’s favorite team, a title the team held for the last six years, according to ESPN.com. The Denver Broncos have claimed the new top spot.
ATLANTIC CITY — The loss of four casinos began to show up in Atlantic City’s gambling revenues in September, which were nearly 13 percent less than they were a year ago before the lights started going out.
Several Las Vegas City Council members say developers Cordish Cos. and Findlay Sports & Entertainment should consider taking on a third partner to privatize financing for a proposed downtown soccer stadium so that public dollars are not used.
Uber, the San Francisco-based ride-sharing company that has acknowledged it is considering entering the Las Vegas ground transportation market if it can figure out a way to clear some regulatory hurdles, conducted the first of five introductory “onboarding sessions” with prospective drivers on Wednesday.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. shrugged off the declining Macau gaming market during the third quarter, saying Wednesday that companywide net income increased 7.2 percent.