With the NBA draft order set following the league’s draft lottery Tuesday night, former UNLV players Chris Wood and Rashad Vaughn have been projected as first-round picks by ESPN NBA draft expert Chad Ford.
Cleveland guard J.R. Smith exploded for 28 points, fueling a 97-89 Cavaliers win over the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals at Philips Arena.
Jon Jones was scheduled to defend his light heavyweight title at UFC 187 on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden. But he was stripped of the crown and suspended indefinitely after another incident outside the cage, and now Anthony Johnson and Daniel Cormier will fight for the vacated belt.
The new North Las Vegas chief of police was sworn in by an enthusiastic City Council on Wednesday night. Alexander Perez is the first Hispanic to officially serve as the city’s top cop.
Writer-director Anrew Niccol and his crew spent “only about a week” in Las Vegas before filming the bulk of “Good Kill” in New Mexico.
Northbound traffic on Boulder Highway, near Russell Road, has reopened after a fatal crash Wednesday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
Backed by Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman Sheldon Adelson, the bill pending in Congress would end most forms of online betting, including interactive poker in Nevada.
Jesus “Chuy” Gutierrez will return to the ring Friday for the first time since Sept. 20, fighting Angel Hernandez in an eight-round bout on an outdoor card at Downtown Las Vegas Events Center adjacent to the D Las Vegas.
Oscar Madera-Diez woke to a soft knock on his front door early Monday. When he opened the door, he saw his teenage neighbor. “He just mumbled, ‘You guys should probably get out because I set a fire in our apartment,’ ” Madera-Diez said in Spanish.
A math teacher and coach at a suburban Atlanta middle school was fired this week and faces charges that he allowed students to have sex in a classroom storage closet, a school district spokesman said.
Some leading travel websites are a no-fly zone as far as Delta is concerned.
Despite finally catching a ball at Kauffman Stadium three years after a little boy intercepted a ball intended for her there, Kansas City Royals fan Anna Burbridge still appears to be upset.
Wealthy Malaysian businessman Paul Phua pleaded not guilty in federal court Wednesday to felony charges contained in a new illegal gambling indictment against him.
“Pawn Stars” star Rick Harrison was granted a waiver from Las Vegas’ neon sign ordinance for his new container park, Pawn Plaza, on the boulevard Wednesday.
The bill requires a lawmaker who leaves office to skip one legislative session before returning to the Legislature as a paid lobbyist.
It’s safe to swim in Las Vegas public pools, but you might want to wear your flip-flops before getting in and after getting out. All six of Las Vegas’ city-run pools recently tested negative for staphylococcus and MRSA, a bacteria that causes skin irritation, the city announced Wednesday morning.
Bruton Smith, 88, was elected into the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Wednesday. He is the executive chairman of Speedway Motorsports Inc., which owns Las Vegas Motor Speedway and seven other tracks.
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.
Two lawmakers with long experience in crafting Nevada’s rooftop-solar policy said Wednesday they never intended to continually raise the net metering cap beyond the 3 percent level now in law.
Convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez is in trouble once again, getting mixed up in a prison fight, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the incident said Tuesday.
A Senate committee Wednesday reviewed a bill to simplify Nevada’s convoluted live entertainment tax with an admission tax that would be easier to calculate and administer.
Las Vegas will soon have the money to build a much-ballyhooed downtown parking garage, and an extra $20 million to boot.
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.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation reports that 74 percent of U.S. gun retailers saw an increase in female patrons from 2011 to 2012, with women making up 20 percent of sales. Since 2005, female gun ownership in America has doubled in the $8 billion industry. In contrast, a General Social Survey shows that the number of Americans who live in a household with at least one gun is lower than it’s ever been, with 32 percent either owning a firearm themselves or living with someone who does. In the late 1970s and early ’80s, roughly half of Americans told researchers there was a gun in their household.
If accurate, a new drought prediction would force Nevada to reduce its Colorado River water use by 4 percent while Arizona and Mexico take larger cuts.
With gun violence and drug-related homicides on the rise in Las Vegas in 2015, police are hoping extra community outreach will quell the storm of aggression.
U.S. troops and Defense Department employees improperly used their government charge cards to spend more than $1 million in casinos and strip clubs in one year, and the government is still struggling to stop it, according to a new report released Monday by the top Pentagon watchdog.
A retired Las Vegas police lieutenant was sentenced to 366 days in federal prison Wednesday for his role in the scheme to defraud and take over Las Vegas-area homeowners associations.
It would’ve been one of the most spectacular goals in NHL playoff history had it counted.
Memorial Day weekend is the traditional start of the grilling season, which means S’mores Oreo cookies are hitting store shelves just in time for anyone who doesn’t want to make a real one by the fire.