Two people were briefly trapped in a mine shaft near Lake Mead late Friday morning by a rattlesnake blocking their path. They were safely out of the shaft less than two hours after calling for help.
The fact that Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh had no problem taking his shirt off recently during a football camp and running around the field with a bunch of teenagers — while still wearing his signature khaki pants — didn’t surprise Delanie Walker one bit.
Utah State football players — nose guard Travis Seefeldt, linebacker Adewale Adeoye and defensive ends John Taylor and Edmund Faimalo were injured in a car accident Friday, some seriously. Former Aggies softball player Sarah Vasquez was the driver, and she reportedly was hurt, too.
Less than two days ago, the company told affected game developers that the apps were pulled for containing images of the Confederate flag “used in offensive and mean-spirited ways,” according to Andrew Mulholland of HexWar Games.
Henderson personal injury lawyer William K. Errico has been indicted on dozens of charges in connection with the theft of nearly a half-million dollars from his clients, prosecutors said Friday.
In an effort to determine why the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners allowed a doctor accused of a sex crime to continue practicing, the Las Vegas Review-Journal filed court papers Friday, asking a judge to unseal records from a 2006 criminal case.
Randall Cunningham II placed first in the high jump competition Friday at the USATF Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Ore.
A Las Vegas woman was killed and a man suffered what police called “major” injuries Wednesday after a rollover crash in Barstow, Calif.
A suicide bomber killed 27 people when he blew himself up inside a packed Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait city during Friday prayers, the health ministry and witnesses said, the first attack of its kind in the major oil-exporting state.
Las Vegas police are seeking the public’s help in identifying two men who they say robbed a south valley home in May.
A gunman disguised as a tourist opened fire at a Tunisian hotel on Friday with a weapon he had hidden in an umbrella, killing 37 people, including British, German and Belgian tourists, as they lounged at the beach and pool in a popular resort town.
Call it a seismic cultural shift triggered by lucrative rebates reaching up to $6,000 to remove front and backyard sod from a home, depending on the city and size of lawn.
The latest attempt to create a working hoverboard is coming from a car company.
Bobby Jindal is fixin’ to find high-profile support from his own constituents as he launches his campaign for the presidency: “Duck Dynasty” stars Jep and Jessica Robertson have said they endorse the Louisiana governor.
Affleck and his friend since childhood, actor Matt Damon, will be among the producers of the as-yet-untitled movie for Hollywood studio Warner Bros., the author, U.S. reporter Ken Bensinger, told Reuters.
Las Vegas visitor totals in May increased almost 5 percent with special events making the month a record for tourist volume
French authorities detained the lone suspect in an attack on a factory Friday in which a large explosion was followed by the discovery of a severed head hanging from a fence.
New York Knicks star forward Carmelo Anthony reportedly expressed his displeasure Thursday night with team president Phil Jackson’s decision to draft 7-foot-1 big man Kristaps Porzingis.
A large vortex formed when officials recently opened the flood gates at Denison Dam to drain the overflowing Lake Texoma near the Oklahoma-Texas border.
Few presidents of Mexico have managed to unite the country in the way Donald Trump did after he launched his U.S. presidential bid last week with a string of broadsides against America’s southern neighbor.
Twenty years after “Clueless” hit movie theaters, director Amy Heckerling has confirmed to “Entertainment Tonight” that “Clueless: The Musical” is coming to the stage.
Molycorp Inc. failed to get approval from a U.S. Bankruptcy judge on Friday to borrow about $44 million at the rare-earth producer’s first bankruptcy hearing.
The San Antonio Spurs are expecting power forward Tim Duncan to return in 2015-16 for his 19th NBA season.
Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., is spending the weekend in Cuba, part of a delegation assessing progress in normalizing relations between the island nation and the United States.
Emergency crews were trying on Friday to reach the wreckage of a sightseeing plane on the side of a steep rock face in Alaska and recover the bodies of nine people killed in the crash, a rescue official said.
Taxable sales in Nevada rose in April, driven by big gains in sales by bars and restaurants, car dealers and building-material suppliers. Sales of tangible goods increased 5.5 percent year-over-year in April, to $4.12 billion, the state Department of Taxation reported Friday. Sales in Clark County were up 6.8 percent, to $3.11 billion.
Ryne Sandberg resigned as manager of the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday. The team announced the decision at a press conference about 3 1/2 hours before its game against the Washington Nationals at Citizens Bank Park.
Las Vegas police said Friday they aren’t necessarily on heightened alert for the holiday, but always watch for potential threats.
Those guys from the Boston comedy scene sure make the rest of us look lazy. People wonder how Louis C.K. gets so much done. But Bill Burr, fellow redhead of the same age and region (Burr just turned 48), is no slacker, either.
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