A bill that would extend the statute of limitations in cases of sexual assault from four to 20 years was approved Wednesday by the Nevada Assembly Judiciary Committee.
Prepare to get dizzy. During a routine GoPro skydiving experience, the camera is ripped off the cameraperson’s helmet and begins a freefall all on its own.
UNLV came back from a 5-1 deficit to beat Arizona State 7-6 on Wednesday, completing a game that was suspended Tuesday night because of a power failure. The Sun Devils are the highest-ranked team the Rebels have beaten since defeating No. 3 Cal State Fullerton 8-6 in 2003.
Larry Hanneman beat the odds by drawing a tag for the Moapa Valley turkey season, and his patience paid off with a 19.5-pound Rio on his second day of hunting.
A group of comedians who started their careers at the Riviera Comedy Club are planning an L.A.-to-Vegas road trip to pay their respects to the soon-to-be imploded icon.
Green Valley senior sprinter Ian Mack has the nation’s No. 2 wind-legal time in the 100-meter dash. This weekend, he will compete at the prestigious Arcadia (Calif.) Invitational and has the chance to prove he can outrun some of the region’s best, slender frame and all.
New pitch clocks installed in minor league ballparks might — or might not — speed up the game from a snail’s pace to a real fast snail’s pace. It’s being tried experimentally in the bushes, because that’s how baseball does things — it uses its minor leagues as a laboratory whenever it considers changing the game.
Nevada officials plan to reopen the juvenile correctional facility in Clark County in early September.
Keith Belton has followed a “whisper” from an internship at Wake Forest through stops at Baylor, Washington and Southern California to UNLV. His success working with players in the training room will go a long way to determining the success of the Rebels program.
A North Las Vegas man abandoned the 17-year-old stepdaughter he impregnated, police said, leaving the teen to give birth alone at home while looking after her 3-year-old sister, who eventually starved to death.
A 14-year-old Las Vegas girl was found in North Dakota after her mother recognized her photo on Backpage.com, a website similar to Craigslist that is also used by sex workers to advertise their services.
Since 1972, an artist as been building on a patch of desert called Garden Valley situated in Lincoln County. Michael Heizer’s piece, “City,” stretches 1 1/4 miles long, and is still growing.
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A man and woman told a judge Wednesday that they were too high on methamphetamines to rescue three toddlers who died in a Las Vegas mobile home fire.
A North Korean defector living in South Korea said on Wednesday he has launched balloons carrying thousands of copies of the film “The Interview” to North Korea, despite protests from the isolated country and emailed death threats.
You would have done the same thing, I know you would have. Maybe I’ll end up in hot water; if I do, it would have been worth it.
Henderson police are looking for a 53-year-old man who has not returned from a hike near the River Mountain Loop Trail.
Tiger Woods, his girlfriend and a boy band star turned some heads at the Masters Par-3 contest on Wednesday, but Jack Nicklaus stole the show with a hole-in-one.
A woman who was critically injured in an apartment fire on Tuesday near downtown Las Vegas has died, according to the Las Vegas Fire Department.
Former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto on Wednesday launched her campaign for U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s seat in 2016, and immediately was endorsed by the Democratic Party hierarchy from Nevada to the nation’s capital.
Comedian Vinnie Favorito explained the show’s closing on Saturday: Flamingo owner “Caesars and I both agreed it was better to move on and I think they understand financial problems do occur.”
Newmont Mining Corp. will go ahead with building the first phase of its Long Canyon gold mine in Nevada, the company, the biggest U.S.-based gold miner said on Wednesday.
A young mother in Australia is recovering after a virulent staph infection left her partially paralyzed, and it all started when she borrowed a friend’s makeup brush.
A Las Vegas Valley tax preparer was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday on 66 felony counts of presenting false tax returns to the IRS.
A Las Vegas man who told officials in June that he had placed explosives under the desks of two federal judges and planned to blow them up has been sentenced to 75 months in federal prison.
Is “Arrested Development” coming back for more new episodes? According to exec producer Brian Grazer, yes — and 17, to be exact.
An anti-tax lawmaker who was removed from two key positions in the Assembly would certainly have done things differently than the men who replaced her.
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