The National Basketball Referees Association came to the defense on Friday of a rookie female referee excoriated by Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul after she slapped the eight-time All-Star with a technical foul.
Inmate Dale Prater died Thursday in Indian Springs, the Nevada Department of Corrections announced Friday.
The head of the Democratic National Committee met Friday with Nevada activists to discuss strategies to defeat a proposed voter ID law that could hurt the party’s turnout here in the 2016 presidential election.
Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell will spend 15 months on probation stemming from his arrest on marijuana possession and DUI charges.
The first pick’em game in Super Bowl history was a classic, closing the book on another wild NFL season. Here’s a Top 10 list of the regular season’s most memorable betting moments.
Las Vegas voters should get a chance to weigh in on using public funds to help pay for a controversial downtown soccer stadium, a judge decided Friday.
A Wisconsin mother filed a $5-million lawsuit against the Pop Warner youth football organization on Thursday, blaming it for her son’s suicide after years of playing the “combat sport.”
The bell has rung and the sparring has begun in the Las Vegas mayor’s race with incumbent Carolyn Goodman receiving some snarling assistance from her cornerman.
Centennial senior Hunter Brown has been used to distractions, obstacles or adversity for most of his wrestling career.
NBC News is in the middle of an investigation into “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams’ recent disclosure that he falsely claimed to have been on a helicopter that was shot down by enemy fire while on an NBC News reporting trip in Iraq in 2003, according to a memo issued Friday by NBC News.
A bill that would exempt school and university construction projects from Nevada’s prevailing wage law was passed by a Senate committee Friday, just two days after a contentious hearing.
Two gun-related bills, including a measure that would do away with a handgun registration requirement in Clark County, were introduced Friday in the Assembly.
Regional casino operator Full House Resorts said it amended several credit agreements and selected a new chief financial officer as it moves forward following a recent management shake-up.
Former Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller has joined Fine Entertainment as the company’s vice president of business development and general counsel.
Seattle Seahawks defenders Bruce Irvin and Michael Bennett and New England Patriots tight ends Rob Gronkowski and Michael Hoomanawanui were fined by the NFL on Friday for their roles in a brawl near the end of the Super Bowl last Sunday.
Hey, Democratic voters: Remember when those activists told you that elections have consequences, that if you failed to show up at the polls on Election Day, bad things would happen?
President Barack Obama released an updated national security strategy on Friday committing the United States to a leading world role while also highlighting a cautious foreign policy doctrine that has been shorthanded as “don’t do stupid stuff.”
The Clark County coroner’s office said Friday it wasn’t able to determine what killed a 3-month-old boy removed in December from a filthy home in North Las Vegas.
The crew of a twin-propeller TransAsia plane which crashed into a river in Taipei killing 35 people had lost power in one engine but shut down and restarted the other, investigators said on Friday.
How serious is the National Hockey League about adding Las Vegas to the league? NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is attending a press conference Tuesday that is being held by an ownership group to officially launch a season ticket deposit campaign.
Plus-size model Robyn Lawley, who is a size 12, is the first plus-size model and one of seven “rookies” featured in the 2015 swimsuit issue, on newsstands Tuesday.
Three Missouri women were arrested on Thursday and charged with kidnapping after they allegedly arranged for a man to kidnap their six-year-old relative because he was “too nice” and he needed a shock lesson in the dangers of the world.
A North Carolina teen who went to Target to look for a clip-on tie for a job interview became the subject of a touching moment and a viral photo.
The erosion of the intact family has affected the economic outcomes of children and thus led to further income inequality between American families.
Ever imagine what a mash-up of “The Lego Movie” and the upcoming “Fifty Shades of Grey” might look like? Wonder no more!
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
ISIS claimed in an online posting that a female American hostage had been killed in a Jordanian airstrike on Raqaa, Syria, on Friday.
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A University of South Carolina professor died of multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body after being shot in Thursday’s apparent murder-suicide in a campus building in downtown Columbia, a coroner said on Friday.