UNLV shortstop Garie Blando was named to the National Fastpitch Coaches All-West Region third team. She led the Rebels in most offensive categories, including games played (55), batting average (.389), runs (55), hits (70), doubles (16), home runs (15) and RBIs (46).
A San Antonio, Tex., police officer who was placed on administrative leave following a recent shoplifting arrest was taken into custody again Wednesday night for a similar charge.
The Las Vegas Elks Helldorado Days, one of the longest-running special events in the city, will have its parade along the city’s traditional route of Fourth Street between Gass and Stewart avenues.
Police and firefighters used a basket and ropes to hoist an 82-year-old man to safety after his pickup truck left a rural road in Arizona and plunged 50 feet off a cliff, authorities said on Thursday.
Mitt Romney and Evander Holyfield are gearing up for their charity boxing match on Friday … with a lovely new hype video.
A Georgia police officer questioning a suspect was dragged when the man being stopped didn’t want to take the keys out of the ignition.
The Tivoli Village hot spot was closed by the Southern Nevada Health District on Monday because of a lack of hot water and a number of other violations. The restaurant, at 400 S. Rampart Blvd., was re-inspected Thursday morning and has reopened.
Len Petoske received the ultimate compliment from his fellow board members of the Silver State Schools Credit Union upon reaching his 50th year as a volunteer. “He’s like E.F. Hutton. When he speaks. Everybody listens,” said board chairwoman Terry Mannion in citing the television commercial about the American financier.
DeMarco Murray left the Dallas Cowboys, but according to owner Jerry Jones, he didn’t take the league’s top rushing attack with him.
The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will celebrate Armed Forces Day by paying tribute to local armed services members and veterans on Saturday.
A sketchy portrait of the man at the helm of the Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia began to emerge on Thursday as his lawyer said the engineer could not remember the crash and rescuers pulled an eighth body from the wreckage.
A Kickstarter campaign that launched Tuesday, which is fronted by Bill Nye (of “the Science Guy” fame), is asking for contributions to send a small spacecraft into the universe next year.
Metro is seeking the public’s help in identifying a man they said was involved in an April robbery at the South Point.
The first full day of jury deliberations in the Boston Marathon bombing trial ended on Thursday without a decision on whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev would be sentenced to death or to life in prison for the deadly 2013 attack.
Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza, who was in Tanzania when a general attempted to overthrow him, has returned to the African nation, the presidency said in a telephone text message on Thursday.
Three people died in a fire in northwest Washington on Thursday and homicide investigators were on site, a local television affiliate reported.
Saturday night’s race is the first All-Star event on FS1. To be perfectly blunt, the All-Star race has always been a bit of a loser on TV, especially on cable channels with fewer households than the networks.
A 911 dispatcher responded personally to a call from an 81-year-old cancer patient who had run out of food and couldn’t leave his house.
Thousands of migrants adrift in Southeast Asian seas have nowhere to go after Thailand declined permission for a boat to land on Thursday and Malaysia said it would push boatpeople back out to sea.
A woman in a stolen car crashed into a construction site, injuring two workers at the intersection of Charleston Boulevard and Eastern Avenue Thursday morning, Las Vegas police said.
Macy’s Chief Financial Officer Karen Hoguet said on a call with analysts that tourist spending at Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s stores in Las Vegas, New York City, Chicago, and other cities was down in double digits in percentage terms in the first quarter.
A federal grand jury indicted a former Los Angeles County undersheriff and a retired captain on obstruction and conspiracy charges in a long-running investigation of inmate abuse and corruption, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Secret Service detained a man Thursday afternoon who eyewitnesses tell CNN was trying to fly some sort of remote-controlled aerial device over the White House fence.
The average American child gets his or her first cellphone at the age of 6, and it only goes up from there. A survey reported on by Education Week found that 51 percent of all high school students carry a smartphone with them to class everyday.
Cyclist Alan Crocker regrets flipping off the driver of the blue pickup truck that buzzed past him on a recent Saturday morning in Rome, Georgia. He’s not proud of it, and he’ll never do it again — especially now that he knows how unpredictable the response might be.
For nearly 600 episodes of “The Simpsons,” Harry Shearer has been the voice of many of the show’s most iconic characters — among them Principal Skinner, Ned Flanders and Montgomery Burns. Now, the comedian and voice actor is leaving the show.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help to locate a man they thought had been barricaded in a residence near Nellis Air Force Base Thursday morning.
A bill sought by Wynn Resorts that critics said would have substantially weakened Nevada’s anti-SLAPP statute is dead after a lawmaker said Thursday it won’t come up for a vote in his committee.
Movie director Spike Lee, known for films that deal frankly with racial issues, appeared in Chicago on Thursday to defend his planned movie about the city, after its reported title, “Chiraq,” was criticized by local politicians.
A federal judge said sports fans accusing Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League and broadcasters of illegally restricting their ability to watch their favorite teams on TV cannot pursue damages as a class.
