Eighth-graders Gokul Venkatachalam of Chesterfield, Missouri, and Vanya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas, were co-winners of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday.
Former House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert was indicted on Thursday on federal charges, including for lying to the FBI, relating to an alleged effort to hide $3.5 million in payments he was making to a person to conceal past misconduct.
On Thursday, several transgender students and their parents addressed the Clark County School Board and repeated their long-standing requests for a policy that accommodates all students, regardless of gender identity and expression, in public facilities such as bathrooms and locker rooms.
Apparently, all but one Kentucky basketball fan was devastated this season when the Wildcats fell short in their quest to become the first team since the 1976 Indiana Hoosiers to win the national title with a perfect record.
A woman’s body was found in a west valley parking lot late Thursday afternoon. About 5:00 p.m., Las Vegas police responded to a call from a parking lot at the intersection of Rainbow and Charleston boulevards, where they found the body, said Metro Lt. Patrick Charoen.
Shane Peterson hit two home runs and Matt Clark one, and each drove in three runs to lead the Colorado Springs Sky Sox to an 8-3 win over the 51s and a split of the teams’ four-game Pacific Coast League series at Cashman Field.
Thanks largely to its more affordable buy-in, the World Series of Poker’s “Colossus” already has surpassed the 2006 Main Event as the largest live tournament in poker history. More than 14,000 players had registered by 2 p.m. Thursday.
One person was injured and a truck caught fire after a crash between a box truck and a van on U.S. Highway 93, near the Apex exit.
LeBron James’ mission is to lift a pedestrian supporting cast of Cleveland Cavaliers to an NBA championship by conquering a superior Golden State Warriors team led by two of the world’s best perimeter shooters. Golden State opened as a minus-270 favorite to win the series and has been bet down to minus-240.
Bishop Gorman senior shortstop Cadyn Grenier changed games with his bat, glove, speed and arm strength, and he was a big reason the Gaels won the Division I state baseball championship. For his efforts, he is the Review-Journal’s state player of the year. Grenier hit .472 with six home runs and 35 RBIs in Gorman’s 32-3 season.
Did the overconfidence of Spectacular Bid trainer Bud Delp and jockey Ronnie Franklin lead to his near miss at the Belmont in 1979 and the beginning of the current curse? It’s a good bet Bob Baffert and Victor Espinoza won’t make the same mistake with American Pharoah.
The New York Rangers and Tampa Bay Lightning play Friday in the Eastern Conference final, and the Chicago Blackhawks and Anaheim Ducks square off Saturday for the Western Conference crown.
A 56-year-old man was charged on Thursday with setting a massive fire that destroyed much of a multimillion-dollar apartment complex under construction in downtown Los Angeles and damaged three nearby buildings.
Before Gino DiMaria became the baseball coach at Bishop Gorman this season, he knew Cadyn Grenier’s reputation as a player.
While primarily a chicken restaurant, PDQ has the answer to people who think turkey is dry and flavorless. The grilled turkey breast sandwich features a thick slab of meat marinated in a mixture seasoned principally with thyme, which gave it both deep flavor and plenty of moisture.
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UNLV took a step back this season after making an NCAA baseball regional in 2014. But coach Tim Chambers said the program is on the right track, and he has high expectations for next season.
Two years after passing a law to set up medical marijuana dispensaries in Nevada, state lawmakers are trying to massage the rules to fix unintended consequences of the process.
State gaming regulators removed a condition Thursday from Station Casinos’ gaming license that was a holdover from when it was owned by a private equity firm. However, the company’s chief financial officer said it doesn’t mean the privately held casino operator was going public any time soon.
Two key elements of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s $1.1 billion tax package cleared major legislative hurdles Thursday, winning endorsements from Assembly committees.
After NBA Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry had a scary fall in Game 4 in Houston, fellow Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson took a nasty knee to the head from Trevor Ariza on Wednesday in Game 5.
Running back Adrian Peterson, the only player on the Minnesota Vikings’ roster who did not show up for the first week of OTAs, kept his name in the headlines Thursday.
A committee to recall embattled North Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge Catherine Ramsey turned in more than 2,700 petition signatures Thursday at City Hall.
A federal judge Thursday quickly denied a request from prosecutors to reconsider his order tossing out the brunt of the evidence in the illegal gambling case against wealthy Malaysian businessman Paul Phua.
While a family in another vehicle sat and enjoyed the show, a passing car didn’t have the same patience and chose to drive through the path of two head butting rams.
The Assembly Education Committee on Thursday passed a bill that would allow parents to put public school funding toward other educational purposes for their child, including private schools and tutoring.
The number of women buying guns is on the rise, with sales to women jumping 20 percent between 2011 and 2012, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, an industry trade group. The information comes on the heels of a December Pew Research Center poll showing that, for the first time in 20 years, there is more support among Americans for gun rights than gun control.
On Thursday, District Judge Douglas Herndon sentenced Juan Rivera to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the rape and murder of 14-year-old Diana Soto.
That idea to drill a double-deck tunnel under McCarran International Airport to carry cars, trucks and possibly a light-rail train to the Las Vegas Strip won’t be a slam-dunk, but Wednesday’s announcement has already achieved one goal: It’s grabbed the public’s attention.