Hampton coach Edward Joyner Jr. said he’d seek divine intervention if the Pirates earned a matchup against the unbeaten Kentucky Wildcats. Following Tuesday night’s 74-64 win over the Manhattan Jaspers, he made the call.
After all the security adjustments members of the flying public have endured post-9/11, they once again have to revisit their trepidation over airline travel. But have no fear. Airline crews are by no means cavalier about unruly passengers or hijack threats.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. can’t seem to catch a break. Next month, New Orleans will ban smoking in most public venues within Orleans Parish, including bars, hotels, sports stadiums and restaurants (where the activity has been curtailed since 2007).
The UNLV men’s golf team won the Jackrabbit Invitational at Primm Valley Golf Club. The Rebels’ Kurt Kitayama shot a 19-under 197 to earn medalist honors, followed by teammates John Oda and Carl Jonson.
Leaders of a House subcommittee have set an April 9 tour of Yucca Mountain, part of a campaign to draw new attention to the mothballed Nevada nuclear waste site.
You know something is sketchy when the only thing that can film it is a drone.
More details surfaced Tuesday in an investigation of alleged road building improprieties at Jim Rhodes’ Kingman Farms agricultural enterprise in northwest Arizona.
A proposal that would require Nevadans to provide a valid ID before they could vote sparked a contentious, two-hour debate at the state Legislature on Tuesday.
A Clark County Commission decision Tuesday to extend The Animal Foundation contract to continue operating a shelter wasn’t what the shelter’s chief critic had hoped for, but a No Kill Las Vegas official said it will look for other ways to help animals.
Twitter trolls zeroed in on Ashley Judd after she tweeted during the SEC championship on Sunday, sending her several sexually violent threats — but the actress is fighting back.
The Department of Veterans Affairs Southern Nevada Healthcare System will hold a town hall meeting to discuss benefits issues from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at North Las Vegas VA Medical Center auditorium.
Clark County charter schools, where enrollment is 66 percent white, are on the path to resegregation, public school superintendent Pat Skorkowsky told business leaders Tuesday.
A federal jury Tuesday convicted four defendants in the massive scheme to take over and defraud Las Vega-area homeowners associations. Prosecutors contended the multi-million-dollar scheme was carried out between 2003 and 2009.
A state Senate committee amended and passed a bill Tuesday that would authorize tax abatements for data centers that drive global cybercommerce and are viewed as a huge boon for Nevada’s economy.
Three Southern Nevada Democratic state senators introduced a bill Tuesday that would abolish Nevada’s modified business tax for non-financial institutions and impose a new fee based on gross receipts over $25,000.
Las Vegas police have emptied a northeast valley residence where a man who shot at a truck was barricaded.
Interest in the Robert Durst case and his Saturday night arrest in New Orleans clearly resulted in a bigger audience for Sunday’s night’s finale of “The Jinx,” HBO’s six-part documentary series about the eccentric real estate heir.
The founder of a Reno school aimed at educating the most gifted middle- and high school students was appointed by Gov. Brian Sandoval to the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents Tuesday.
A bill introduced Tuesday in Congress seeks to promote international tourism to the United States while requiring new layers of security for nations that are granted the easiest access.
Clark County on Tuesday approved an $85,000 settlement of a lawsuit filed by the father of Roderick “RJ” Arrington, a 7-year-old boy beaten to death in 2012 despite a call for help to a county child abuse hotline.
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No one was reported injured on Flight 1320, which returned to John F. Kennedy International Airport about 10 minutes after takeoff.
There’s no way around it — Villanova is playing some seriously good basketball. Here are six teams with momentum that are entering the NCAA Tournament.
Two of three defendants charged in the 2009 robbery of an armored car driver outside Palace Station have pleaded guilty.
Five women on a Maryland college lacrosse team have been suspended from the school after allegedly making violent threats against teammates, school officials said.
A Utah woman won a $10.7 million Megabucks jackpot on Saturday at the Westgate Las Vegas.
Health insurer Premera Blue Cross said on Tuesday it was a victim of a cyberattack that may have exposed medical data and financial information of 11 million customers in the latest case of a healthcare company reporting a serious breach.