An unarmed man who was not cooperating with Transportation Security Administration officers in a terminal at Los Angeles International Airport was tasered and arrested on Wednesday, an airport police spokeswoman said.
Ronda Rousey: “If I see a guy walking around in a Speedo, I don’t get anything from it. I don’t think women would enjoy ring boys as much as men enjoy ring girls. But that’s just me. I’m not the let’s-go-to-‘Chippendales’ type.”
Memorial Day Weekend is ushering into Las Vegas another four-day weekend of all-out warfare among clubs and DJs, as everyone fights for pretty tourists’ party dollars.
Cimarron-Memorial senior shortstop Niko Decolati has been named the Division I Southern Nevada Player of the Year by area baseball coaches. He hit .411 with 10 home runs and 25 RBIs this season for the Spartans.
Legacy shortstop Hayden LeCates didn’t play on a premier team this season. The Longhorns won six games and missed the playoffs.
Question: What do the iconic American companies Atari and Chuck E. Cheese have to do with turning criminals into productive citizens?
The political tug of war between state Senate and Assembly Republicans could kill one of the most important reform proposals of the 2015 Nevada Legislature and allow an abusive police practice to continue largely unchecked.
PBR (Professional Bull Riders), the bull riding organization based in Pueblo, Colo., is pushing the marketing envelope for this weekend’s Last Cowboy Standing event in Las Vegas by giving it a spring-break theme in hopes of driving new and young fans to the sport.
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The Clark County School District will increase class sizes in grades four and above as it attempts to alleviate an estimated $52 million shortfall in a $2.3 billion budget for the 2015-16 school year that trustees approved Wednesday.
Coronado junior Basia Query has been named the Southeast League”s Most Valuable Player. She hit .452 with 12 doubles and 36 RBIs for the Cougars, who won the Southeast softball title. Query floated between catcher and shortstop, depending on where her team needed her.
Legacy junior shortstop Hayden LeCates went 2-for-3 with one RBI to lead the Sunset to an 11-7 win over the Sunrise on Wednesday in the Division I All-Star Game at Morse Stadium.
Las Vegas literary happenings this week include a presentation by Writer’s Block co-founders Scott Seeley and Drew Cohen on the independent bookseller’s mission and role in the community.
“Discovering Vintage Las Vegas: A Guide to the City’s Timeless Shops, Restaurants, Casinos & More” leads locals and tourists through the past and present at sites such as Frankie’s Tiki Room, the Gamblers General Store, Freed’s Bakery, the Guardian Angel Cathedral and more.
Before he became an iconic talk show host, David Letterman, whose last show was Wednesday night, moonlighted as a pit reporter at the Indianapolis 500.
In the new book “Lizzie and the Last Day of School” by Trinka Hakes Noble, illustrated by Kris Aro McLeod, an ending is just a beginning.
The Las Vegas police force just got bigger. In a ceremony at the Orleans Hotel on Wednesday, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department welcomed 68 graduates from the Police Officer Academy Class 11-2014.
A Maryland public school substitute has been “removed from the classroom” after video surfaced appearing to show him using a belt on students in a classroom as discipline.
Someone finally figured out a way to slow Bryce Harper down. It was an umpire.
After defeating seventh-seeded San Jose State 2-1 in the play-in game of the Mountain West baseball tournament in Reno, sixth-seeded UNLV lost to third-seeded Fresno State 6-5 to fall into the losers’ bracket of the double-elimination tournament.
Arbor View’s Haley Vicente had two goals and an assist Wednesday night to lead the Sunset team to a 5-0 victory over the Sunrise in the girls soccer senior all-star game at UNLV.
A tip from state fisheries biologist Mark Beckstrand saves the day for a soggy fisherman at Echo Canyon Reservoir.
Three aging sailors attending a USS Utah convention in Las Vegas retell their stories about the day Japanese warplanes attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, to start World War II.
Dana Finkelstein will play her final collegiate golf tournament when she and UNLV tee off Friday at the NCAA women’s golf championship in Bradenton, Fla. Finkelstein is arguably the best player in the 15-year history of the program.
Several scary crashes have marred practice for the Indy 500. The prospect of their cars being turned into flying machines has piqued the interest of the casual sports fan, but it has everybody in racing concerned.