Las Vegas supporters of law enforcement rallied Friday night to combat the tension that’s grown between U.S. police departments and their critics in the aftermath of controversial shootings involving officers and civilians.
The case could have implications for a higher-profile fight over whether the Washington Redskins team in the National Football League should lose its trademarks.
Onlookers clapped as an underwater balloon started heaving a submerged tail section of AirAsia Flight QZ8501, which went missing over the Java Sea.
Rancho’s David McKeever scored 23 points and converted two late steals into baskets to help the Rams rally for a 57-53 home win over Green Valley on Friday.
Paris Strawther had 10 points and 10 rebounds, and Liberty’s girls basketball team rallied for a 47-45 home win over Canyon Springs on Friday.
France grappled with more heartbreak as another day of blood and horror ended with more deaths on Friday. The search continued for the only remaining suspect in the recent attacks.
Heaven Lucero threw a go-ahead 13-yard touchdown pass to Katie Downs with 52 seconds left in regulation Friday to lead Coronado’s flag football team to a 7-6 win over visiting Eldorado.
Boulder City’s wrestling team claimed 10 individual titles on Friday to roll to the team championship at the Panther Invitational in Alamo.
If there was ever an advertisement for the cliche “basketball is a game of runs,” it was Friday’s Northwest League contest between Desert Oasis and host Bonanza.
The owner of a gun store died on Friday in a shootout with four men who were attempting to rob the business in Shawnee, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, police said.
Three people were hospitalized after a Friday evening apartment complex shooting near Clark High School, Las Vegas police said.
After a burglary at his Las Vegas apartment put his career on hold, super bantamweight Jessie Magdaleno returns to the ring Saturday to fight Erik Ruiz at Texas Station.
Aviation website AirlineRatings.com recently released its annual list of the world’s 10 safest airlines.
The attendants say they were fired for refusing to work a United Airlines commercial flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong after the airline discovered “threatening” words and “menacing” images drawn on the tail cone of the Boeing 747.
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that camps of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao are ironing out details, such as pre-fight drug testing, that could bring the two boxers into the ring at the MGM Grand Garden later this year.
A man who shares the name of a famous comedian now faces robbery charges of a grocery store from which he was fired.
The man police said was shot and killed after breaking into a home in the west valley had been out of prison for less than a year, prison records show.
The NFL is investigating whether text messages were sent to the Cleveland Browns’ sideline during games this season.
Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” scored a grand slam at the 68th annual British Academy Film Awards nominations on Friday.
View Neighborhood News readers send photos of their pets and everyday lives, and View features photos of pets ready for adoption each week. To submit a photo, email View copy editor Anne King at aking@viewnews.com or mail to View, C/O Anne King, 1111 W. Bonanza Road, Las Vegas, NV 89125. Photos cannot be returned, and due to the high volume, they are often scheduled a month or two in advance.
Nevada officials are making temporary license placards that will be harder to counterfeit.
“We bond naked!” says Angelique “Frenchy” Morgan, the petite blonde who drives a pink car featuring Hello Kitty insignia around Las Vegas. Only graffiti artist Banksy got more Google searches last year in Britain.
The FBI and Justice Department prosecutors have recommended bringing criminal charges against former CIA chief David Petraeus for improperly providing classified information to a female Army Reserve officer with whom he was having an affair, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Las Vegas police are seeking the public’s help in finding a pair of men they say are siblings and wanted on multiple outstanding warrants.
The murderous, terrorist attack Wednesday on the offices of French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, which claimed 12 lives, is but the latest example of certain extremist fundamentalist Muslims carrying out what they believe is a command of their religion to execute those who insult the Prophet Muhammad.
Southern Nevada business and government leaders took a last chance to bend the ears of state lawmakers Friday, joining incoming and outgoing legislators for a final issues forum before the start of the 2015 legislative session
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh on Friday vowed that if the city hosts the 2024 Summer Olympics it would avoid the huge public spending overruns that have tainted other Olympics in recent years.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. said on Friday it has garnered enough support from key creditors to carry out its $18.4 billion debt restructuring plan for its operating unit, which will soon file for bankruptcy.
The World Financial Group Continental Cup, which set an attendance record of 51,215 over four days at The Orleans Arena in January 2014, will return to the same venue next year.