It took more than three hours and 56 hands for the first elimination to occur at the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event. And for the second straight year, Mark Newhouse hit the rail first.
Both directions of Blue Diamond Road near Cimarron Drive are closed after a motorcyclist was seriously injured in a crash, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
A South Korean court on Tuesday handed a 36-year prison sentence to the captain of a sunken ferry, saying he was professionally negligent and abandoned his passengers during the disaster in April that killed more than 300 people.
Cimarron-Memorial’s boys and Palo Verde’s girls earned the final spots in the Division I state soccer tournaments by virtue of their wins in play-in matches Monday at Clark.
UNLV used a 29-6 run over a 7:21 span in the first half to take a commanding 43-24 lead as the Lady Rebels defeated Dixie State 100-67 in the team’s lone exhibition game Monday at Cox Pavilion.
Mark Sanchez passed for 332 yards and two touchdowns, Darren Sproles accounted for a pair of scores and Philadelphia routed Carolina for its ninth straight home victory.
Las Vegas police used text messages to make an arrest last week in a month-old homicide. Sarah Jean Collis, 32, was found dead in the southeast valley desert Oct. 1 by Bureau of Land Management officers.
More people are getting on bicycles for exercise and transportation, so it might not be a surprise to hear that deaths have gone up. But a new study points to a factor besides forgetting to wear a helmet — it’s alcohol. A quarter of adult men killed on bikes were intoxicated, the study found.
The Nevada Democratic Party said Monday it plans a review to determine “what went wrong in 2014” elections in which Republicans swept to power, winning all the state’s top offices and taking control of the Legislature.
In the past 20 years, the Maryland suburbs just outside Washington, D.C., have boomed, and that growth has been accompanied by development and tourism. Now when folks visit Washington, they may choose hotels in Silver Spring, Rockville or Bethesda — all connected to Washington by Metro.
A 29-year-old man was sentenced to death Monday for a 2009 double-murder inside a Las Vegas apartment.
Cub Swanson has reeled off six consecutive wins in the UFC, but he has yet to be awarded the title shot he feels he has long since earned.
A Kentucky museum devoted to Corvettes is ready to put a car-swallowing sinkhole in its rear view mirror.
Failed Clark County District Attorney candidate Raymond James “Jim” Duensing was convicted Monday on three felony charges stemming from a roadside confrontation with Las Vegas police.
Former Marine Cpl. Daniel W. Smith of Las Vegas has vivid memories of death and destruction during the invasion of Saipan during World War II, but it took a long time for him to talk about the Silver Star he was awarded for bravery.
A Nevada inmate died over the weekend in what prison officials called a “medical episode.” Kirt Robinson, 57, died at the medical center in the Northern Nevada Correctional Center. Prison officials released no details about his death.
A woman fighting breast cancer found herself front and center during a recent Garth Brooks concert in Minneapolis, when she was serenaded by the country music super star.
A book documenting every Nevadan who gave his or her life while serving in the U.S Armed Forces was unveiled Monday by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
A fledging actor and model was found on fire on top of a stalled commuter train in Connecticut and later died from his severe burn injuries, a transit spokesman said on Monday.
Three men convicted of poaching deer in Nevada are facing federal charges for allegedly possessing illegal firearms and killing protected birds.
The death of a 20-year-old man at a fraternity house near the University of California, Berkeley, following a party over the weekend was being investigated as suspicious, police said on Monday.
The man found fatally shot early Saturday morning has been identified, according to the Clark County coroner’s office.
CARSON CITY — Nevada has 243 tax exemptions that have an impact the state budget that are worth about $2.2 billion a year, according to a Monday report by the state Department of Taxation.
Mental blunder takes touchdown off the board, gives Oregon one instead.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. lost $908.1 million in the third quarter despite a 6 percent increase in revenue, the casino company said Monday.
Federal prosecutors say one of the alleged ringleaders of a massive World Cup betting scheme may have “bribed” his way out of Macau following his arrest there in June.
DTP plans to move The Window — a multi-purpose center that showcased artwork and provided meeting space — from a high-profile location at the Ogden to DTP’s Learning Village a few blocks away on East Fremont Street.
A 45-year-old man was sentenced Monday to between eight and 20 years in prison for a DUI crash that left a Las Vegas road worker dead earlier this year. Rafael Mendez-Soto, 45, pleaded guilty in September to DUI resulting in the death of Robert Lee Lujan, 57, and leaving the scene of an accident.
Fifteen hikers from a church group who failed to return from a weekend hike in the Southern California mountains were found safe by helicopter search crew Monday morning.
One man is dead after a two-car crash early Monday morning, Las Vegas police said.
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