North Las Vegas police are investigating a body that was found in a drainage ditch Thursday afternoon.
One of the best days in all of sports, NFL Championship Sunday features two rematches from regular-season routs.
The Gaming Control Board will consider a regulation change next month that would allow Nevada sports books to accept wagers on the Olympics.
A former attorney who ran an unsuccessful bid for Clark County District Attorney was sentenced Thursday to five years probation on three felony charges stemming from a roadside confrontation with Las Vegas police.
A Washington state high school that was the scene of a shooting rampage last October was hit with a second day of phoned-in threats of violence on Thursday though police said they believed the calls were hoaxes.
The San Diego Padres were selected Thursday as the hosts for the 2016 All-Star Game.
Major League Soccer’s Most Valuable Player award is being named after retired U.S. star Landon Donovan.
The sales manager of a Massachusetts car dealership has apologized “for the actions” of employees caught on camera “belittling” a delivery driver.
Belgian police killed two men who opened fire on them during one of about a dozen raids on Thursday against a group that was about to launch “terrorist attacks on a grand scale,” a federal prosecutor said.
Bishop Gorman senior tight end Alize Jones announced Thursday on Twitter he has orally committed to Notre Dame, a change of heart that comes less than three weeks before national signing day.
“Boyhood” is the overwhelming favorite to capture best picture, best director and best supporting actress at the Feb. 22 Academy Awards, according to the odds posted by Johnny Avello, director of race and sports operations at Wynn Las Vegas.
Cardale Jones is staying at Ohio State. The redshirt sophomore quarterback who led the Buckeyes to the first College Football Playoff championship in spectacular fashion announced Thursday in Cleveland at his high school that he will be back in Columbus for another season.
Samsung Electronics recently offered to buy BlackBerry Ltd for as much as $7.5 billion, seeking its valuable patents as it battles Apple in the corporate market, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Heavy users of the Internet and social media do not have higher levels of stress, and women who use Twitter, email and photo sharing show less stress than women who do not use them, a survey released on Thursday showed.
Matt Polster, who starred at Palo Verde High and Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, was selected by the Chicago Fire in the first round of the 2015 MLS SuperDraft on Thursday.
On the surface, casting the “Avengers” star as one of the world’s pre-eminent computer geniuses sounds as ludicrous a creation as Christmas Jones, Denise Richards’ midriff-baring nuclear physicist from “The World Is Not Enough.”
Kealiiholookoa Maruyama finished third in the boys’ 14-15 division in the national finals of the PP&K competition.
You can see the work of the architectural firm Bunnyfish all over town but particularly in much of the new renovation projects downtown.
Pope Francis said on Thursday he believed that man was primarily responsible for climate change and that he hoped this year’s Paris conference would take a courageous stand to protect the environment.
Filmmaker Roman Polanski said on Thursday he did not expect Poland would comply with a request to extradite him to the United States over a 1977 child sex-crime conviction.
The actor, who adopts a mud-thick West Texas drawl and disappears behind a beard, an array of sweat-stained baseball caps and an extra 40 pounds of muscle to portray Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, is astonishingly good in the best work of his film career.
Constantly touring classic rockers return after filming concert DVD in Las Vegas last summer.
The closing of Atlantic City Racecourse. follows closely on the heels of the closure of Suffolk Downs in East Boston, Mass., and Hollywood Park in Inglewood, Calif. I can’t see how closing down three racing franchises in about a year could be anything but negative.
U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus on Thursday said the Navy would rename the modified Littoral Combat Ships it plans to build as frigates, given their enhanced capabilities.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie dominates almost any room he enters but is suddenly facing questions about his relevance in the 2016 presidential race.
The man whose body was found in a wash in the northeast valley on Wednesday was the same man with Alzheimer’s disease who had gone missing last week.
The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office said a fire truck was responding to a crash Wednesday morning when it rolled off a mountain.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell granted the Indianapolis Colts’ request Thursday to place Josh McNary on the league’s commissioner exempt list after the backup linebacker was charged with rape of a woman last month.