It’s easy to get a new soccer stadium that Las Vegas taxpayers may not want. Just call it something else. Stadium subsidy opponents fear that’s the reasoning behind a bill set for introduction at City Hall next week.
A Texas teen tweeted herself out of a job at a Dallas-area pizzeria before she even served her first slice by trashing the restaurant.
The company said its privacy policy had been misinterpreted. Samsung says its voice recognition technology works similarly to any other speech-to-text service.
In a deal with prosecutors, basketball analyst Greg Anthony agreed to perform community service in exchange for the dismissal of a charge of soliciting a prostitute.
A New York City rookie police officer was charged during a Wednesday court appearance with manslaughter in the second degree and five other offenses for the fatal shooting of an unarmed man while the officer patrolled the darkened stairwell of a housing project last November.
A man and a woman sleeping in a dumpster after a night of drinking at a Florida casino ended up at a hospital complaining of back pain after they had to be rescued from a garbage truck, police said.
Legendary UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian died Wednesday morning at Valley Hospital Medical Center. Here’s what his fans had to say about him.
An Italian court convicted the former captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner on Wednesday for his role in the 2012 shipwreck that killed 32 people and sentenced him to 16 years in prison.
A 46-year-old man has been charged with murder in the shooting deaths of three students in an apartment near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus.
Gavin Maloof was ticking off a long list of celebrities who have jumped on the NHL to Las Vegas bandwagon when he stopped in midsentence.
Commuters on San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit system may have been exposed to measles last week after an East Bay resident with the disease rode a BART train to and from work in the city for three days while infectious, public health officials said on Wednesday.
A 29-year-old motorcyclist killed in a Tuesday evening crash has been identified.
The state’s new Global Tourism Summit — the event replacing the annual Governor’s Conference on Tourism — will be Nov. 16-17 in Southern Nevada, an executive with the Nevada Tourism Commission said Tuesday.
There’s something in the sports writer’s code, an unwritten rule, about not asking for autographs. When I heard that Jerry Tarkanian had died Wednesday morning, asking him for his autograph when I was a young sports writer was one of the first things that popped into my mind.
Laverne Cox has been cast in CBS’s legal drama pilot “Doubt” from “Grey’s Anatomy” producers Joan Rater and Tony Phelan, Variety has learned.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy is set to record its best performance in a decade this year as a rapidly strengthening labor market buoys domestic demand, giving the Federal Reserve the confidence to start tightening monetary policy, according to a Reuters poll of economists released Wednesday.
Love will be in the air along with a flashy party scheduled from 6 to 9 p.m. Feb. 14 at City of the World, 1229 S. Casino Center Blvd.
Federal Reserve officials are debating a historic shift in one of the core economic gauges that could lead the central bank to move even slower than now thought once it lifts its rates from rock bottom levels.
Thieves have broken into Paul McGinley’s car and stolen Ryder Cup mementos the triumphant 2014 captain was planning to auction for charity, the San Francisco Chronicle has reported.
A female delivery driver for Domino’s Pizza was held at gunpoint in Northern California and sexually assaulted by a teenager, apparently after he ordered the pizza, police said on Tuesday.
Little League Baseball on Wednesday stripped Jackie Robinson West of Chicago of its U.S. championship for using ineligible players last summer.
A bicyclist and a pedestrian were struck by cars in separate accidents in the northwest Las Vegas Valley Wednesday morning.
Being entrusted with other companies’ Internet cloud data isn’t a task Summerlin-area Cobalt Data Centers takes lightly. Its high-tech security efforts include retina scanners and Kevlar-reinforced exterior walls. Being in the desert — far from natural diasasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes and not having a nuclear plant nearby — also makes Las Vegas a desirable location for cloud data storage.
More than a million acres of California desert, including a prized Joshua tree forest just southwest of Searchlight, would receive new federal protection under a bill being pushed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
A Clark County judge sentenced Elijah Alvarado to 16 to 40 years in prison Monday for a shooting at a skateboard park that left Keaton Belliston paralyzed from the waist down.
National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman said Tuesday in Las Vegas the league has not taken a position on legalizing sports wagering.
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It’s official. The “Duck Dynasty” musical authorized by America’s favorite rednecks, the Robertson family, will open at the Rio on April 20. Presales for players club members and registered “Duck” fans begin Thursday, general sales commence Feb. 17.
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Las Vegas police arrested a man suspected of driving under the influence when he struck an officer Tuesday night.