The National Football League on Monday fined the New England Patriots $1 million for its role in “Deflategate” and will suspend star quarterback Tom Brady for the first four games of next season.
More job openings are posted to Twitter than any other social media platform, but that doesn’t mean it is resulting in hires.
Former Illinois offensive lineman Simon Cvijanovic has accused head coach Tim Beckman of forcing him to play through injuries and other forms of “abuse and misuse of power.”
Mari St. Martin, press secretary to Gov. Brian Sandoval, is facing a drunken driving charge following her arrest Friday night in Reno, the governor’s office said Monday.
A playful but unwanted house guest tried to make a San Diego boat his crash pad for the night.
The number of U.S. law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty last year nearly doubled from 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a report on Monday.
An Oregon woman said she has hired an attorney after her family was kicked off a United Airlines flight because her autistic daughter was being “disruptive.”
A body found on a container ship at a U.S. cocoa import facility in Pennsylvania on Monday could be a stowaway who had traveled from West Africa, a Port Authority official said.
New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Monday said he would resign his leadership post a week after being charged in a corruption scheme involving his son, and was replaced by a fellow senator from Long Island, two lawmakers said.
Sponsor says Nevada’s Public Employee Retirement System costs would fall by $1 billion per decade through reform.
Singer-songwriter Mayer Hawthorne has been added to Saturday’s bill, and John Legend has been moved to the main stage with a later start time to make up for the absence of Sam Smith.
The Philadelphia man was shot at Oasis Bay Apartments on Saturday afternoon. Police have made no arrest.
Emergency crews were cleaning up on Monday from tornadoes that killed at least four people and injured 50 others in Texas and Arkansas that were part of a twister series to hit central states overnight, flattening buildings and snapping power lines.
A well-known death penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean told a jury Monday that she met with Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and “absolutely” believes he is remorseful.
An 85-year-old man who was critically injured after being struck by a car in Chinatown in November died two months ago, Las Vegas police announced Monday in a news release.
A man arrested in the shooting deaths of his landlords was in the process of moving out of a small house on their northwest valley property, according to a Las Vegas police report.
Activists said on Monday they would sue a Florida aquarium for violating the Endangered Species Act if it does not improve living conditions for Lolita, a killer whale in captivity for more than four decades.
As the “Rs” were pulled from the Riviera’s door and the “Crazy Girls” butts were removed, Las Vegas lost a major part of its history, like the Stardust and New Frontier before it. So here are some ways to get old school in Vegas.
George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of murder charges in the 2012 shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Florida, suffered a minor wound in a road-rage shooting incident on Monday, media reports said.
A strain of highly pathogenic H5 avian flu that had recently been found only in the Western United States has been confirmed in a backyard poultry flock in Indiana.
A baby kangaroo was taken from its mother’s pouch and stolen along with four baby goats from a zoo in eastern Wisconsin, local police said on Monday.
Pop star Prince made room for another color next to his signature purple in his Baltimore “Rally4Peace” concert Sunday — and next to his music for dash of political gestures.
An Alabama woman convicted of murder for running her granddaughter to death was spared the death penalty when a judge instead sentenced her to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The annual Helldorado Days Celebration & Rodeo is scheduled from May 14 to 17, but one person who won’t be there is 79-year-old Rollie Gibbs, who has attended the event since before he could walk.
Teens are playing a disappearing act on their parents with a new and nefarious social media challenge called The Game of 72, which dares teens to disappear from and have absolutely no contact with their parents for 12, 24 or 72 hours.
The judge overseeing the legal dispute between Allegiant Air and the union representing the airline’s pilots has filed an amended order clarifying the limits pilots have in discussing the case and taking job actions.
Two inmates died and two were injured as a result of a weekend riot at a Nebraska prison, the head of the corrections officers’ union said on Monday.
Potential Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said he would have authorized the 2003 invasion of Iraq, just as his brother George W. Bush had done.
Chewing tobacco has long been a tradition in baseball, but that tradition could be on its way out in one big-league city.
A 75-year-old woman reported missing on Saturday has returned home, Las Vegas police said.