TRENTON, N.J. — Claims that New Jersey’s plan to allow legal sports gambling violates federal law are meritless, the state wrote in a court filing in response to efforts by four major U.S. pro sports leagues and the NCAA to stop gambling from beginning this weekend.
Matt Youmans and the Golden Nugget sports book’s Aaron Kessler and Tony Miller preview the college football and NFL weekend by offering 12 plays.
Cliven Bundy, the Southern Nevada rancher who was criticized earlier this year for suggesting that African-Americans were better off as slaves, is raising eyebrows again.
Here’s an interesting revelation from Democratic operative Van Jones. He says that Sarah Palin’s intellect and ability to communicate with average people had Democrats “shaking in our boots” in 2008.
View Neighborhood News explores additional volunteer opportunities throughout Henderson.
Marvel and Disney’s first trailer for “The Avengers: Age of Ultron” arrived Thursday night after being leaked online earlier in the day.
ATLANTIC CITY — One worker had to move up a double mastectomy before her insurance runs out in a week. Another says he can no longer afford diabetes medicine for his young son, and a third may have to do without medication for frequent asthma attacks.
A Henderson subcontractor working on a federally backed renewable-energy project has had to pay back wages to nearly 150 employees.
The candidate running against Clark County School Board President Erin Cranor filed an ethics complaint against her Thursday for Cranor’s actions described in a lawsuit against the district and her, individually.
Southwest Airlines, the Dallas-based airline, the busiest operating at McCarran International Airport, on Thursday reported record third-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations.
While religious institutions and officials have the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples, the same is not true for commercial businesses such as Nevada wedding chapels, officials with the ACLU said Thursday.
State gaming regulators took the “soft launch” tag off the Real Gaming poker website Thursday, allowing the Internet presence for Michael Gaughan’s South Point to move forward after a nearly eight-month testing period.
Poker standout Daniel Negreanu and former World Series of Poker Tournament Director Jack McClelland were selected Thursday as 2014 inductees into the Poker Hall of Fame.
Danny Cates was found dead in his office nine years ago and the homicide was never solved, but Henderson police think someone knows more and isn’t coming forward.
The Retail Association of Nevada estimates statewide Halloween sales could reach $110.1 million, up 7.3 percent from the $102.6 from last year.
A dog-loving Nebraska trucker took a lost pooch on a long haul back to its family in Arizona.
One person was hospitalized with serious injuries and southbound traffic was closed at a west valley intersection following a two-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon.
A nurse at a Los Angeles hospital took a photo of a woman who gouged out her own eyes with pencils, and the patient sued the hospital and its administrators after the picture went viral on the Internet.
A record 201 horses were pre-entered for the two-day Breeders’ Cup championships at Santa Anita Park on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. And this with one less race as the Marathon no longer exists.
M Resort owner Penn National Gaming said revenue and profits declined in the third quarter as regional gaming markets across the U.S. continued to under-perform.
Google is introducing an application designed to make it easier for its Gmail users to find and manage important information that can often get buried in their inboxes.
Serena Williams says she has received a written apology from Russian tennis chief Shamil Tarpischev for offensive comments in which he called her and sister Venus the “Williams brothers.”
A video of a pair of dueling, dancing American priests studying in Rome has gone viral, following in the footsteps of a now-famous Italian nun whose Alicia Keys-esque voice won her a singing contest and a record contract.
The Life Is Beautiful festival is trucking in tons of sod to green up 70,000 square feet of downtown dirt and asphalt for its second year. So it may not be metaphor abuse to say that having proved its “downtown” cred, the music, food and art festival is free to be a little more comfortable this year.
A former county human resources analyst was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison Thursday in a scheme to steal $827,445 from a national auto insurance company.
The current Cowboys look similar to the Super Bowl champion teams in ‘93 and ‘95, which won behind an impeccable offensive line and the “Big Three” of Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin.
Five things to look for when UNLV’s football team plays at Utah State on Saturday.
A five-run, sixth-inning rally led the Kansas City Royals to a 7-2 victory over the Giants on Wednesday in Game 2 of the World Series, offsetting San Francisco’s 7-1 win in the opener. Here are five things we know about the World Series as it switches to San Francisco for Game 3 on Friday.
Follow the link for the boys and girls soccer coaches polls, as compiled by Tech coach Josh Jones.
U.S. Justice Department officials on Thursday criticized local authorities’ investigation of the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, saying the case had been handled in a “selective” and “inappropriate” manner.
