According to the folks at WalletHub.com, St. Louis is the country’s No. baseball town. Where is Las Vegas? That’s hard to say. For some reason, the survey outfit listed “Paradise, NV” at No. 210.
Not so long ago, Las Vegas residents held unfavorable views of gaming corporations that expanded outside Nevada and the United States. The narrative held that casino companies were amassing profits made in Las Vegas, then, instead of investing them here, were creating jobs elsewhere while eagerly subjecting themselves to higher gaming tax rates.
Three Cabinet secretaries visited Las Vegas this week and vowed to end veteran homelessness. We hope they take lessons from how Las Vegas has made progress tackling the problem and tell President Barack Obama that more expensive federal interventions will never get the job done.
When the casts of two Disney Broadway productions get stuck waiting for six hours at an airport, they decide to do what they do best: entertain.
Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson said the conference plans to keep its basketball tournaments in Las Vegas, but he is exploring a possible change of venue after 2016, when a contract with the Thomas & Mack Center expires.
Dan Johnson went 3-for-4 with two home runs, four RBIs and four runs to help the Memphis Redbirds overcome a five-run deficit and down the 51s 10-9 in a Pacific Coast League game Thursday in Memphis, Tenn. The loss was Las Vegas’ ninth straight.
LeBron James scored 44 points Thursday but walked off incredibly disappointed, same as everyone who bet on his Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. Golden State stole the game and the money in a 108-100 overtime victory. The Cavaliers, 6-point underdogs, controlled most of the game before imploding in the final five minutes.
No matter how many World Series of Poker bracelets Robert Mizrachi collects and how much money he wins, he can’t seem to escape his younger brother Michael’s shadow. But Robert Mizrachi is hoping that will change after his most recent accomplishment matched his more famous brother with his third WSOP bracelet.
An 18-year-old man’s body was was recovered near Morning Star Cove on Lake Mohave on Thursday, according to the National Park Service.
The latest trends in pool and landscape design are all about finding new ways to bring the indoors out, while maintaining a sleek, contemporary look, Realtors and builders say.
You still can get an official Elston Howard On-Deck Bat Weight in the original packaging on eBay. I found two versions — the larger red doughnut for $27.50 and the smaller blue bat weights for $17.50. I’m told chicks dig the larger red doughnut.
Friends and family gathered together at Henderson’s Mission Hills Park to remember 9-year-old Austen Russell who was accidentally killed a week earlier.
Midway through OT in Thursday’s game, Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving went down awkwardly while trying to make an offensive move. Irving left the court to be examined and did not return.
The Golden State Warriors, led by the league’s Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry, drew first blood in the best-of-seven NBA Finals with a thrilling 108-100 overtime victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game One on Thursday.
Milwaukee, Wis., police say the three-year-old boy who suffered numerous physical injuries at a home near 54th and Euclid has died.
Defending champion Norm Duke posted a 14-2 match-play record and averaged 218.8 after the fifth round to take the lead Thursday in the Suncoast PBA Senior U.S. Open at the Suncoast Bowling Center. Twenty-four players advanced to Friday’s final day.
Its formal name is Regaliceratops peterhewsi, a reference to its crown-like frill and the man who stumbled upon its bones 10 years ago.
Barely three months after the loss of Leonard Nimoy, “Star Trek” fans have gotten more troubling news.
A North Las Vegas municipal judge is trying to end an effort to remove her from the bench, arguing judges cannot be recalled by popular vote under the Nevada Constitution.
The Mountain West will pay out UNLV a little more than $3 million. The debut of the College Football Playoff boosted the amount the conference will distribute to member schools to a record $47 million.
A Rancho High School history teacher was arrested Thursday on numerous charges, including having sex with a pupil, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and kidnapping.
Several employees, including news director Ron Comings, were laid off from KLAS-TV, Channel 8, in the latest shakeup since Nexstar Broadcasting Group took control of the station in February.
Jerry Foltz, Doug Pool, Barbara Christensen and Voss Boreta will be enshrined into the Las Vegas Golf Hall of Fame on Oct. 16 at TPC Summerlin.
A Phoenix, Ariz., woman was turning a lot of heads outside a meeting of the Arizona Medical Board today, even if she wasn’t winning over their minds.
An artist has won almost $1.35 million in a lawsuit over a sculpture commemorating workers who were paid just $5 per day to risk their lives during the construction of Hoover Dam.
The end times didn’t fall upon organized labor this legislative session, despite initial fears from union leaders that the GOP-led red wave endangered their way of doing business.
Despite the fact that Stephen Curry has played only six seasons in the NBA, the Warriors guard already has been anointed by many, including Steve Nash, as the greatest shooter of all time.
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