The Ironman Triathlon race illegally charged athletes who were willing to pay for a chance to compete in its world competition, according to U.S. prosecutors, who said on Wednesday that the Florida-based company had agreed to forfeit $2.76 million.
With more than $2 million to spend on the project, North Las Vegas officials celebrated the first phase of construction at Kiel Ranch Historic Park on Wednesday.
A move to delay debate on an anti-bullying bill was ignored in the Assembly today was ignored, as a majority voted to approve the bill and send it to the governor’s desk.
Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a bill Wednesday allowing more noncitizens to obtain teaching certificates in Nevada, a move that could help ease a critical teacher shortage in Clark County.
A daylong search failed to find a missing U.S. Marine helicopter on Wednesday, a day after the second Nepal earthquake in less than three weeks killed scores and triggered landslides across the Himalayan nation.
With “Mad Max: Fury Road,” the first new installment in 30 years, opening Friday, here’s an A-to-Z look back at the franchise and how Max got to be so mad.
After a flurry of coverage following news that Google’s self-driving cars have been involved in a spate of fender benders, the tech giant wants you to know that it’s human drivers in other cars who are at fault, not its computerized vehicles.
Two hearse drivers in Florida have been fired after recorded the vehicle parked out front of a Dunkin’ Donuts with a flag-draped coffin in the back on the way to a funeral.
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday named Chuck Rosenberg as the new acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas reduced its net loss by more than half in the first quarter, its first full three-month period under the ownership of the Blackstone Group.
An Arizona woman was charged with fraud and identity theft after faking cancer to get the state to pay for her late-term abortion five years ago, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
When the Stratosphere hotel-casino-tower was being built in 1995, it didn’t require a very clever marketing scheme. It was pretty hard to miss, standing at more than 1,000 feet tall in the center of the city.
The family of a 19-year-old Indian girl has been ostracized and fined 1.6 million rupees ($25,000) by a village council after she rejected a marriage arranged when she was a baby, the girl and her parents said on Wednesday.
Cleveland Cavaliers backup center Kendrick Perkins and his wife were involved in a roadside altercation on Wednesday morning.
Full House Resorts saw net revenues decline slightly in the first quarter as new management takes control of the Las Vegas-based casino operator.
Oklahoma school districts can designate trained staff members to carry guns on school property under a bill signed into law this week by Governor Mary Fallin, a Republican.
In a cab on the way to JFK airport, I was glued to my iPhone, per usual. Only this time, I wasn’t texting my friends, I was confiding in a therapist I had never met.
A patient admitted to a Connecticut hospital on Tuesday has been placed in isolation and is being monitored for possible Ebola infection after recently traveling from Liberia.
Casino management company Paragon Gaming hopes to take over operations of Westgate Las Vegas on June 1, but the off-Strip resort is already benefiting from the planned association.
North Korea publicly executed the country’s defense minister anti-aircraft gun at a military school after the regime accused him of treason.
A music producer who once worked with the likes of Whitney Houston and Kenny G was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on Wednesday for a multimillion-dollar scheme that defrauded dozens of investors.
A hammer-wielding man accused of hitting three people on the head in New York City earlier this week was shot on Wednesday after he swung the tool at a police officer.
The Vatican announced Wednesday that it had brokered a treaty with the “state of Palestine,” upsetting Israeli advocates and propelling Pope Francis into the heart of yet another geopolitical fray.
U.S. senators reached a deal on Wednesday to move forward this week with legislation key to the proposed 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, a day after a Democratic rebellion dealt a blow to the White House’s trade agenda.
The Sci Fi Center 5077 Arville St. has planned a Typical Saturday Night In Space featuring a burlesque variety show starting at 10 p.m. May 16, $10 pre-sale, $12 at the door and $20 for VIP call 855-501-4335 or visit thescificenter.com.
Steve Jacobs’ personal fight of the century is still in the preliminary stages at the Regional Justice Center, but casino titan Sheldon Adelson is already taking punches.
Community leaders spoke out about domestic violence and its impact on Mid-Michigan on Tuesday, but the way a local lawyer treated the issue has them calling for immediate action and an apology.
Tawny Willoughby grew up in small-town Kentucky, where she said it was normal to use a tanning bed four or five times a week. After one of her classmates in nursing school was diagnosed with melanoma, Willoughby made her first dermatology appointment at age 21. Sure enough, she had skin cancer.
Toyota and Nissan have recalled an additional 6.56 million cars equipped with possibly faulty airbags manufactured by Japan-based Takata.