Junior welterweight Broner to try maturity makeover

Adrien Broner is trying to grow up but at the same time he wants to stay true to himself. It’s a delicate balance. Broner fights Saturday at the MGM as part of the debut of Premier Boxing Champions on NBC.

Top 10 private jet routes dominated by NYC

If you see a private plane in the sky, there’s a pretty good chance it’s coming from — or heading to — New York City.

‘Recruiting’ lifts Mojave program to new heights

Volleyball coach Erik Davis scours the Mojave campus looking for players and he found all 14 of his varsity players somewhere at the school. The Rattlers won last season”s Division I-A state championship.

Coroner: No crime in demise of twin fetuses lost by Spring Valley Hospital

The Bureau of Health Care Quality and Compliance is investigating how twin 16-week-old fetuses ended up at a Henderson laundry in a shipment of linen from Spring Valley Hospital Medical Center, a state public health official said Wednesday.

Here’s how long you’ll live based on your Vegas ZIP code

Life expectancy can vary dramatically by neighborhood in the Las Vegas Valley with a disparity of as much as 16 years in the nine miles that separates the Strip from Henderson, according to researchers.

 
Luke Evans to play Gaston in Disney’s live-action ‘Beauty and the Beast’

Luke Evans is in negotiations to play the villainous Gaston in Disney’s live-action retelling of “Beauty and the Beast,” which stars “Harry Potter” actress Emma Watson as Belle and “Downton Abbey” alum Dan Stevens as the Beast.

Man, 78, dies after crash sends car into Mesquite lake

A 78-year-old Mesquite man died Tuesday when his car fell into a lake after he sped through an intersection and crashed into a curb, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.

MLS reportedly reaches labor deal

Two days before the scheduled start of the season, Major League Soccer reportedly reached a labor agreement with the MLS Players Union to avoid a strike, multiple media outlets reported Wednesday.

 
What really caused Buddy Holly’s plane to crash?

It’s the day the music died. In the early morning hours of February 3, 1959, a small aircraft carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson crashed a few miles from Mason City Municipal Airport, near Clear Lake, Iowa.

 
Man tried to sneak sword in cane into jail holding son

A Texas man has been caught trying to smuggle a two-foot-long sword into a jail where he son was being held by hiding it in a cane adorned to look like the head of a snake, corrections officials said on Wednesday.

Ray Allen announces he won’t return to court this season

Longtime NBA guard Ray Allen announced Wednesday that he will not play this season. Allen, 39, said he will spend the rest of the year reassessing whether he will play in 2015-16.

2015 Valley Boys Track Capsule

Follow the link for preseason information for the Valley boys track team.

 
NYC public schools will now observe 2 Muslim holidays

New York City public schools will now observe two Muslim holidays, officials announced Wednesday, making the district — the nation’s biggest — one of the few to put Islamic holy days on its calendar.

Anthony tries to tie up revenue for Vegas soccer stadium

The political chess match surrounding Las Vegas’ apparently dead soccer stadium continues at City Hall, where Mayor Pro Tem Stavros Anthony on Wednesday pressed for a vote that would tie up millions of dollars in public funds once earmarked for the venue.

 
Microsoft co-founder, team find sunken Japanese WWII battleship

A team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has found the sunken Japanese warship Musashi, one of the largest battleships ever built, where it was sunk during World War Two off the coast of the Philippines, the billionaire said on Wednesday.

Fatal Henderson police shooting to be reviewed

The public can attend or watch a televised fact-finding review Monday of a police shooting in June 2014 that killed a man after he shot at Henderson police officers. Ryan Allen Marone, 36, was shot to death June 11 last year by Henderson police who were responding to reports of gunfire at Marone’s parents’ home at 489 Flat Plains Ave., near Horizon Ridge Parkway and Gibson Road.

 
Police blame triple homicide on suicidal man

Las Vegas police said a suicidal man is responsible for killing three people before shooting himself Tuesday night.

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