Jack Jurek of Lackawanna, N.Y., stumbled a bit in the third round Wednesday in the Suncoast PBA Senior U.S. Open, but recovered to top qualifying for the third straight day. Jurek finished qualifying with a 4,042 18-game pinfall total at the Suncoast Bowling Center.
The Golden State Warriors are favored to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals and win their first championship since 1975. Six members of the Las Vegas Review-Journal sports staff and six handicappers predict the outcome.
Local high school history, English and government teacher David Bryant Perkins carved time out of his day between classes during lunch to work on “Hitler’s Astrologer.”
Cleveland and Golden State form the perfect NBA Finals pair. The feud features two big-time stars and will play well on TV, blow up Twitter and energize Las Vegas sports books. The Warriors, as a minus-210 series favorite, seem to be the wiseguys’ side. The betting public is backing the Cavaliers.
As the last-ever days of seven-digit dialing in Clark County approached last summer, apprehension about the addition of a new 725 area code grew. More than a year later, we’ve gotten over it.
Lack of playgrounds and shoreline access kept Lakes Mead and Mohave off the list of America’s top 100 family fishing and boating spots as compiled by the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation.
Texas Rangers phenom Joey Gallo went 3-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs in his first game in the major leagues. That’s a better start than a host of other Las Vegas players, including Greg Maddux, Bryce Harper and Kris Bryant.
This isn’t to suggest what the United States did in handing down those indictments last week is wrong. But before we decide to police the world, it might be smart to understand our own skeletons when it comes to sports and corruption.
Lance Garcia, a 25-year-old from Houston, won the largest poker tournament in history Wednesday, capturing the World Series of Poker’s “Colossus” No-limit Hold ’em event at the Rio Convention Center. Garcia took home $638,880.
A 54-year-old Northern Nevada inmate serving time for drug possession died Wednesday, the Nevada Department of Corrections wrote in a release the same day.
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, the parents on the TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting,” defended their son Josh in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday as they addressed his molestation of young girls, including his sisters, as a teenager.
Speaking before Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Wednesday in Tampa, Fla., NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said he is aware of businessman Bill Foley’s attempt to show that Las Vegas is ready to embrace the NHL. The league’s Board of Governors will meet June 24 at the MGM Grand.
Gov. Brian Sandoval’s many-pronged education spending and reform package approved by the just-concluded 2015 Legislature represents the most significant change to the public school system in 60 years.
The Chicago Blackhawks overcame a slow start to race past the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 in the opening game of the Stanley Cup Finals on Wednesday.
The boy who was wounded was sitting in the backseat of a car when he and three others in the vehicle encountered four men walking, police said. One of those men fired into the vehicle.
Zach Petrick pitched seven strong innings, and Dan Johnson hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the fifth inning as the Memphis Redbirds handed the 51s their eighth straight loss, a 4-3 setback in a Pacific Coast League game Wednesday in Memphis, Tenn.
UFC 191 will take place Sept. 5 at the MGM Grand Garden, the Ultimate Fighting Championship confirmed Wednesday. No fights have been announced for the card.
What’s a quick way to make friends on an airplane if you’re a parent traveling with infant twins? Hand out earplugs and candy.
Two bills backed by the Nevada sports betting industry that could lead to an increase in the $3.9 billion already wagered annually in the state’s sports books were signed into law by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
Don’t call it a comeback, because we’re not sure former Atlanta Braves star Chipper Jones ever left Twitter, but Jones — who has posted his share of offensive tweets — is back with a vengeance.
Mario Lamont Jones II faces three to 10 years in prison and will be required to register as a sex offender.
Matt Clendennen is grateful to be out of jail, but struggling to hold his life together. He was one of 177 people arrested after last month’s biker brawl in Waco, Texas, which left nine people dead. All the suspects face charges of engaging in organized crime, with bonds set at $1 million each.
Vinnie Favorito, ousted from the Flamingo in April after complaints about unpaid loans, takes his comedy act to the freestanding Tommy Wind Theater.
The crash happened just after noon near the intersection of Wigwam Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard.
The city of North Las Vegas has paid $25,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit involving police officers who fatally shot two dogs while serving a search warrant in 2008. “Sometimes it’s worth it to pay a settlement to avoid the more expensive cost of a trial,” Chief Deputy City Attorney Bethany Sanchez said.
The man hit a construction sign, the moped fell and his head struck the ground, Metro said Wednesday.
The “Heavy Hitters” in waste management came out swinging in Las Vegas on Wednesday with one them calling recycling a “broken model.”
The crash happened just before noon on northbound Interstate 15, near the exit for State Route 168 and about 50 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
Palo Verde outside hitter Michael Simister didn’t get the outcome he had envisioned a season ago when the Panthers were ousted in the Sunset Region semifinals by Shadow Ridge.
It seems that more and more restaurants in the valley, from celebrity-chef spotlights to mom-and-pops, are offering live music these days.
