A man was killed in a central valley officer-involved-shooting Saturday night after wounding a Metro officer with a pellet gun while police were responding to a crime involving the man’s neighbor.
Beibut Shumenov of Kazakhstan won his Premier Boxing Champions interim cruiserweight title fight against B.J. Flores on Saturday night in the Pearl Theatre at The Palms.
Social media, for all of its goofiness and self-indulgence, could play a key role in helping experts figure out why the fire at The Cosmopolitan’s Boulevard pool venue blew up so quickly.
It’s easy to fall into a pulpy frame of mind when checking out — OK, becoming embarrassingly engrossed in — the Clark County Museum’s collection of Las Vegas-themed mass-market paperbacks.
For a good portion of her life, Alexis Gibson knew the stigma of having HIV can take just as big of a toll as having the virus. A lifetime of taunts and discrimination taught her that it probably would be easier hiding the truth about her health.
The first time Sergey Kovalev fought in Las Vegas, it took him just 5 minutes, 39 seconds to leave his mark, stopping Douglas Okola in the second round.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is at the point where he has to make a decision regarding his next fight. A source with knowledge of the negotiations said Saturday that everything is expected to be finalized in the next week.
Four inmates suffered nonfatal injures when they and six other inmates fought during dinner at High Desert State Prison near Indian Springs on Friday night, prompting guards to skip bird shot rounds at them.
Chuck O’Bannon averaged only seven points a game last season playing for the best high school basketball team in Nevada that featured two of the nation’s top prospects and eight seniors. This left the 6-foot-5-inch, 195-pound swingman to stay under the radar. Not any longer.
Jessie Vargas is still upset over how his June 27 WBO welterweight title fight with Timothy Bradley ended at the StubHub Center in Carson, Calif.
A fire caused an estimated $340,000 in damage to a Henderson business late Friday night.
I see where they are now playing the state Little League tournaments, which always reminds me of once having been a boy during summertime.
The Big 12 already was at a disadvantage for not staging a conference championship game, and now the league is putting itself in position to take another competitive step backward.
The Lake Charles, La., casino market is the best example why the investment community has done a 180-degree turn on the U.S. gaming operators.
It’s a Nevada Supreme Court decision that didn’t resolve much. The court’s September ruling in SFR Investments Pool 1 LLC v. U.S. Bank gave homeowner associations the right to wipe out entire mortgages through foreclosures for late dues.
The House voted last week to block federal crime-fighting funds from going to “sanctuary cities” where police do not routinely report undocumented immigrants to federal authorities.
A man was struck by a boat’s propeller and killed on Lake Mohave Saturday.
Selfies have proven to be a boon for more than social media, family sharing and dating apps. Cosmetic medicine is being buoyed by the selfie effect as people seek to change their appearance after feeling uncomfortable seeing photographs posted on social media.
For the past decade, education officials in Nevada have eyed with envy the sprawling data systems other states have built to empower teachers, researchers and parents with unprecedented access to information about their students.
A Pahrump man has been charged with murder after police said he admitted killing his stepmother and hiding her body.
The Review-Journal has crossed the line into hate speech and inflammatory rhetoric by publishing the hostile, disgusting rants of Michelle Malkin (“Paying the price for abortion,” July 22 Review-Journal). That same column, on Ms. Malkin’s website and others, appeared under the headline, ’The wine-sipping butchers of Planned Parenthood.’ Of course, someone toned down the headline for the R-J, which I assume was to make it more palatable, but the column reads exactly as it appears on her website.
A 35-year-old woman is dead after a rollover crash near the Las Vegas Strip on Saturday morning, according to police.
A small plane hard-landed at the North Las Vegas Airport on Saturday afternoon, officials said.
A rare hotel-casino fire shut down the Strip about an hour, forced the partial evacuation of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, and hospitalized at least one person early Saturday afternoon.
Hundreds of people on Saturday attended the funeral of Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in a Texas jail cell days after she was arrested following a minor traffic offense, an incident said by activists to be yet another example of police brutality toward minorities.
A day after suffering a broken right leg and left foot in a Feb. 21 crash at Daytona International Speedway, Kyle Busch had his first hospital visitor. It was Tony Stewart, who had been sidelined in August 2013 by a sprint car accident that had caused a compound fracture of his right leg.
Clark County’s top boss and its largest union have struggled in recent years to forge a functioning relationship.
So you want to make a little money by become a ride-hailing driver, eh? Uber and Lyft are expected to be running in Southern Nevada within a few weeks.
Red Cross trains future volunteer instructors for the Pillowcase Project, which aims to prepare children for emergencies and natural disasters.
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