The 16th annual Daily Racing Form/National Thoroughbred Racing Association National Handicapping Championship will start today at Treasure Island. With more than 600 entries in play, the three-day tournament will have its largest field ever.
With his two best players either injured or ill Thursday, Foothill girls basketball coach Eric Kruger didn’t exactly have his ideal starting lineup on the floor.
With his two best players either injured or ill Thursday, Foothill girls basketball coach Eric Kruger didn’t exactly have his ideal starting lineup on the floor.
Elita “Gaby” Maldonado killed a man who paid her for sex in an attempt to save her two daughters, whose voices echoed in her head, a defense lawyer told Clark County jurors Thursday.
Drake Furlong-Hansen (126), Anthony Viggiano (170) and Garrett Chanice (182) each recorded a first-period pin Thursday to lead Silverado’s wrestling team to a 38-33 win over host Canyon Springs in a dual meet.
Two months after a judge took the possibility of the death penalty off the table for Frederick Desun Schneider because of his “intellectual disability,” he pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder.
What had all the appearances of a re-election coronation and cakewalk for Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman this week became more interesting with City Councilman Stavros Anthony’s announcement that he’s pursuing the job.
Cameron Burton had 27 points and 11 assists as Valley’s boys basketball team downed visiting Canyon Springs 79-72 on Thursday.
Stan Irwin, producer and the personal manager for many celebrities, especially Johnny Carson, died Wednesday, January 21. He was 94.
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry edged Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James as the fans’ No. 1 choice in voting for the NBA All-Star Game, according to results announced by the NBA on Thursday.
Jin Ackerman, accused of fatally shooting a northwest valley Walgreens employee during a robbery, pleaded not guilty Thursday.
Annalyse Gonzales threw three touchdown passes Thursday to lead Basic’s flag football team to a 31-12 road win over Eldorado.
Justice Ethridge scored 26 points Thursday as Centennial’s girls basketball team rolled to an 88-62 home victory over Arbor View.
In a rare move, Clark County’s head spokesman is using the county’s website to complain about a recent Review-Journal article about Family Services and to accuse its author, reporter Yesenia Amaro, of working to “paint the department in an unfavorable light.”
Nevada Highway Patrol troopers are investigating a crash involving an automobile and a pedestrian on Interstate 15 northbound near Tropicana Avenue.
Las Vegas police arrested a woman in a locked apartment near the Strip after they say she cut a man during an argument.
Two California firefighters were dismissed and 13 others punished, following an investigation into a former fire chief who was accused of stabbing his fiancée to death and then going on the run for two weeks, officials said on Thursday.
Parents and staff of a Las Vegas Valley school are being asked to review their immunization status and to have their children or themselves vaccinated because they might have been exposed to someone with an infectious case of measles, the Southern Nevada Health District said Thursday.
Police in Plymouth, Minnesota, have arrested a man who may have taken his dead mother to the bank to make a withdrawal.
The Clarion off the Strip is scheduled to be imploded next month in the early morning hours. Clark County spokesman Dan Kulin said Thursday that the implosion will take place on Feb. 10 between 2-3 a.m.
Tickets for the Big League Weekend exhibition games between the Oakland Athletics and Chicago Cubs on March 13-14 at Cashman Field go on sale at noon Monday.
Ole Miss starting safety Trae Elston and a teammate were arrested early Thursday in Oxford, Miss., the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported.
A smoke alarm in an Allegiant Air jet flying out of McCarran International Airport Thursday morning forced the plane to be turned back, according to an airport spokeswoman.
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada entered the fray in the pre-Super Bowl fracas over deflated footballs Thursday, saying that as the only state where money can legally be wagered on games, Nevada can ill-afford a scandal affecting the National Football League.
Cliven Lance Bundy, son of the Bunkerville cattle rancher who’s got beef with the federal government, was dropped from a specialty drug court Thursday.
A retirement system official said Thursday a report showing that some Nevada public employees who retire collect more in pension benefits than they did while working was based on less than 2 percent of beneficiaries.
Representatives of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development board on Thursday approved a series of economic incentives for Scientific Games and a subsidiary, Scientific Games Production, to defray costs of building a 40,000-square-foot soundstage for a set for “Monopoly Millionaires Club,” a nationally broadcast television game show.
A bill re-introduced Thursday by Rep. Dina Titus is the latest bid by Congress to get its arm around the handling of disability benefits for military veterans.
Boyd Gaming Corp. appointed the chief executive of a national hotel chain and a Las Vegas attorney to the casino company’s board of directors on Thursday.