If UNLV is looking to create a buzz at home football games, inviting the monster trucks might help.
Getting drafted by the Houston Rockets in the first round of the NBA Draft didn’t get Sam Dekker out of doing chores at his parent’s house.
Two passengers on a Japanese Shinkansen bullet train died after one doused himself in oil and set himself ablaze today, media reports said.
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Nevada legislators and education watchdogs expressed alarm over news higher education officials buried a report amid fear it would reflect poorly on the system. The matter, they said, obstructs what many have long wanted: A higher education system with more accountability.
Residents recognized him Sunday night from his photo in media reports and called authorities, who picked him up as he walked along U.S. Highway 52 near the Davidson and Forsyth county line.
After nearly two tense days of uncertainty, UFC officials revealed last Wednesday that injured featherweight champion Jose Aldo still intends to defend his belt against Conor McGregor at UFC 189 on July 11 at the MGM Grand Garden.
Public defenders are seeking to save Holmes’ life after the 27-year-old former neuroscience graduate student pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to killing 12 people and wounding 70 in the July 2012 shooting rampage.
Rapid growth in the multi-billion dollar volunteer tourism industry has prompted calls for tighter controls with concerns over exposing vulnerable communities to unskilled foreign labor and dodgy operators exploiting foreigners for profit.
In just eight months, Brendan Jordan went from the kid who vogue-bombed a TV reporter to the world’s top teen queen in Vegas.
Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul told an audience that included rogue rancher Cliven Bundy that he supports relinquishing federal management of public lands.
The north tower of the Park Towers at Hughes Center and a nearby building were evacuated while authorities investigate a suspicious package, Las Vegas police said.
On an 8-day journey on a motorcycle he created with American Wrench, William Shatner turned heads at Caesars Palace on Monday night. The ride serves as a road test for the first-of-its-kind Rivet motorcycle.
The Nevada Department of Education avoided angering the private school community on Monday when it issued temporary regulations to establish a new scholarship program for students to attend private schools.
Ku Klux Klan propaganda fliers were left in front of houses in a Los Angeles suburb over the weekend, the second such incident in southern California in a week to prompt homeowners to contact police with concerns, local authorities said.
Three women filed a lawsuit Monday against the University of California, Berkeley, claiming they were sexually assaulted while students and the school did not do enough to protect them, attorneys said.
The approximately 40,000 employees who work for the Clark County School District will receive no pay raises in the upcoming school year as the district attempts to fill a $67 million budget deficit.
Our parents always tell us what to do. Sometimes, they even need to show us themselves. This trend apparently also applies to racoons.
Scattered showers are in the forecast, brought on by a 20% chance of thunderstorms across the valley through the end of the week, National Weather Service meteorologist Chris Outler said Monday morning.
Golfer Phil Mickelson, who last year was investigated for possible insider trading, has been linked peripherally to a recent money-laundering case connected to an offshore gambling operation.
Dallas-area police said they arrested a teenager seen in a viral video attacking another girl holding a toddler.
A Texas farmer who disturbed an underground bee colony while plowing a field died after he was stung hundreds of times by a swarm that attacked him, a fire official said on Monday.
Private insurance carriers in Nevada cannot exclude or deny transgender people coverage for medically necessary treatments if such procedures are covered for other people, the state’s insurance commissioner said in a bulletin released Monday by a transgender advocacy group.
Philadelphia Phillies right fielder Jeff Francoeur has a strong throwing arm, but it definitely wasn’t on display in the first game of Sunday’s doubleheader against the Washington Nationals.
Bishop Gorman junior Vashti Cunningham won the women”s high jump competition Saturday at the USATF Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore.
New York Giants’ punter Steve Weatherford targeted the Philadelphia Eagles’ quarterback corps of Sam Bradford, Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow during a radio interview last week.
NBC cut ties with real estate developer and TV personality Donald Trump and the “Miss USA” and “Miss Universe” pageants on Monday for making comments insulting Mexicans when he began his run for president earlier this month.
Conflict between a show producer and venue operator led to the abrupt end of a residency by a cappella quintet Mo5aic at Bally’s. The vocal quintet opened June 5 in the second-floor Windows Showroom leased from Caesars Entertainment.
Staging literary works in dance club is harder than it seems in mash-up of movies by director Luhrmann.