Jeff Gordon changed the face of NASCAR when he burst onto the scene full-time in 1993 at age 21. Now on the brink of retirement, he’s still finding his way into the winner’s circle.
Witnesses in trial testify that construction company boss Leon Benzer used intimidation as well as pay to influence homeowner’s association board members doling out big defect repair contracts worth millions.
It was a sophisticated attack with sophisticated devices. Authorities quickly identified the Boston bombing suspects, but almost immediately after Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed during the manhunt for the perpetrators and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured, investigators privately questioned if more people were involved.
A truck driver who may have been fatigued veered into oncoming traffic on a rural Washington state highway on Thursday, killing a woman driving a car and crashing into a school bus loaded with children, a state trooper said.
A jury in Arizona failed to reach a verdict on Thursday in the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias, sparing the former waitress from the death penalty for murdering her ex-boyfriend in 2008.
A middleweight bout between Uriah Hall and Rafael Natal has been added to the UFC 187 lineup, the organization announced Thursday.
It was on the corner of Milton Road and Main Street corner where people in Joanna, South Carolina said a father was teaching his daughter a lesson.
The twin fetuses of a woman who miscarried this week were unaccounted for by medical staff at Spring Valley Hospital Medical Center for least eight hours until they were discovered in a soiled linen shipment at a Henderson laundry, according to a police report released Thursday.
A man is being sought by police after kicking in a door and attacking a woman with a “large knife” in the area of Charleston Boulevard and Sahara Avenue in late February, Las Vegas police said Thursday.
A bill that would exempt school and university construction projects from Nevada’s prevailing wage law passed the Assembly on Thursday on a narrow 23-19 vote.
Two women were killed and a man was jailed Thursday following a car crash in the southeast valley.
Harrison Ford was hospitalized on Thursday after crash landing a plane in Venice, California.
An IRS proposal released this week suggests the reporting rules for winnings from gambling on slots, keno and bingo be reduced from $1,200 to $600. The agency set a 90-day period for the casino industry to respond to the suggested regulation changes.
Henderson police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man they say robbed a man at gunpoint at an ATM early Sunday morning.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man they say stabbed a woman Tuesday at Park Forest Apartments, 50 N. 21st St.
A leading U.S. amputee athlete seeking to compete in next year’s Paralympic Games in Brazil has been sidelined from training after his $30,000 prosthetic running leg was stolen from his car in San Francisco, he said on Thursday.
Self-driving cars could generate billions of dollars a year in revenue from mobile internet services and products, even if occupants spend only a fraction of their free time on the web, according to a new study by McKinsey & Company.
Two small Nevada cities, Mesquite and Fernley, have been tapped as among the top 25 U.S locations for new distribution warehouse operations in a report slated for presentation Thursday in Las Vegas.
A year on from the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, an extraordinary amount of key data remains unknown – fueling conspiracy theories and heated online debate about one of aviation’s biggest mysteries.
Major League Soccer will open its 20th season on Friday. Here are some facts and key dates for the campaign.
A family on safari in South Africa got the shock of a lifetime when a lion opened their car door with its teeth.
Robert Guerrero, a three-division world champion, will fight World Boxing Association welterweight champ Keith Thurman on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden in the 12-round main event of the Premier Boxing Champions on NBC.
A former Clark County School District official and three of her co-defendants on Thursday pleaded to charges they stole tens of thousands of dollars from the school district.
A woman who was raped on the UNR campus in 2007 told her story to Nevada legislators for a third time Thursday in support of a bill that would allow concealed weapons permit holders to carry their weapons on college campuses.
Las Vegas literary happenings this week include visits by Obert Skye and Steve Jenkins and an author session with Jennifer Debs.
Brandon Flowers offers a surprise preview of his upcoming solo album, “The Desired Effect,” in a show Monday at The Bunkhouse Saloon.
A television service subcontractor in West Hartford, Conneticut is accused of sexually assaulting a victim during an appointment.
Undefeated junior middleweight Tony Harrison headlines tonight’s ESPN Friday Night Fights card at the MGM Grand Ballroom, facing Antwone Smith (23-5-1, 12 knockouts) in the 10-round main event.
Archaeologists searching for a lost city in the jungles of Honduras have discovered the urban remains of what they believe is a vanished ancient civilization, National Geographic reports.
U.S. Rep. Cresent Hardy on Thursday put in a request to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell that Nevadans be given more time to weigh in on a new resource management plan for 3.1 million acres of federal land in Southern Nevada.