Branding can get you everywhere, even if you’re just a bug. Boy, does the “Ampulex dementor” wasp know it. Over a year ago, officially, no one was aware that it even existed.
A man already facing dozens of charges in connection with breaking into a woman’s home, taking her family hostage and trying to rape the woman has been indicted on a murder charge, prosecutors said Friday.
Police body camera footage published online by a rights group on Thursday showed two California officers wrestling to the ground a black woman who was eight months pregnant, and arresting her following a dispute with another woman.
The Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1, but it might have fewer storms than normal for the third year running — thanks in part to El Niño, the warming of water in the equatorial Pacific, which increases strong wind shear in the Atlantic.
While it remains to be seen if LeBron James will bring an NBA title to Cleveland, he’s already helped inspire a boy who wore James’ Cavaliers jersey under his dress shirt on stage Thursday en route to being named co-champion of the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
The IRS is giving Americans’ tax refunds to criminal imposters, and until recently its website was spilling your information to identity thieves.
Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch is going on the market for $100 million.
A Vons grocery store in Henderson caught fire Thursday and had to close for the night, according to a Henderson news release.
Health, Healing & Happiness, a health and wellness event planned for June 12-14, began four years ago. About 150 people attended the event at the Springs Preserve. The event has grown steadily, and for the fourth event, organizer Ina Mohan hopes to have around 1,000 attendees, which has necessitated a move to the Tuscany, 255 E. Flamingo Road.
Google’s latest version of Android will remind you to pick up your dry cleaning, it will turn on your dishwasher, and it will replace your credit card.
Google Photos offers free, unlimited space for all of your photos and videos. The app is currently available for Android and iOS devices, as well as on the desktop.
A woman died early Friday morning after crashing her vehicle into a recycling truck in North Las Vegas, police said.
Arizona police stepped up security on Friday near a mosque for a planned outdoor protest by an anti-Islam group that includes drawing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, weeks after a similar competition in Texas came under attack by two gunmen.
An investigation of a U.S. military facility’s mistaken shipments of live anthrax bacteria has turned up another live sample, this one from a 2008 batch sent to Australia, a U.S. defense official said on Friday.
It’s no secret the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao fight, and all the massive hype behind it, attracted the largest gathering of high rollers in the city’s history. The wild weekend produced numbers that probably won’t be repeated, possibly for decades.
Shareholders in MGM Resorts International re-elected the company’s 11-person board of directors at the annual meeting Thursday.
Dallas Police are searching for the man who assaulted and tried to abduct a Roosevelt High School student as she walked to school Tuesday morning.
The Strip’s best April in seven years helped reverse a two-month gaming revenue slide in Nevada. Casinos statewide collected $897.9 million from gamblers during April, a 5.39 increase compared to the same month in 2014.
One person was hospitalized and another was taken into custody after a Thursday night stabbing in downtown Las Vegas, Metro said.
Las Vegas police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a woman who injured an employee during a robbery at a Siegel Suites, according to a news release.
South African comedian Trevor Noah will replace Jon Stewart as the host of the last-night comedy parody “The Daily Show” on Sept. 28, Comedy Central said on Thursday.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, who once lived in Las Vegas, made a stop Thursday at Rick Harrison’s Gold and Silver Pawn Shop at 713 S. Las Vegas Boulevard.
Sepp Blatter was re-elected president of FIFA for a fifth term on Friday after the only other candidate conceded defeat after a first round of voting in an election overshadowed by allegations of corruption in world soccer.
Drink more water and try to stay cool, because high temperatures in the Las Vegas Valley will continue through the weekend.
Former Vanderbilt guard Dai-Jon Parker died Thursday after drowning while tubing in Indiana. He was 22 years old.
A Mississippi woman said her daughter had been arrested in Las Vegas on a prostitution charge but that she planned to clear her name.
Gov. Brian Sandoval says Yucca Mountain supporters in Congress should give it a rest, there’s no way Nevada can be persuaded to accept a high-level nuclear waste site.