Nineteen-year-old Zachary Hammond was on a date July 26 when he was fatally shot by a police officer while in parking lot at a Hardee’s fast-food restaurant in Seneca, South Carolina, according to Eric Bland, the attorney representing the teen’s family.
More than 200 businesses in Ferguson and surrounding areas reportedly suffered losses following unrest to the killing of Michael Brown Jr. last August.
Not everybody is excited about Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota joining the Titans this year.
Tonight at Caesars Palace, Muhammad Ali will be honored as a member of the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame’s class of 2015, a star-studded group that includes Sugar Ray Robinson, Jack Johnson, Joe Gans, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Lennox Lewis, Felix Trinidad, Marco Antonio Barrera, Roger Mayweather, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Johnny Tapia and Gene Fullmer.
For longer than a decade, Nevada State College has been little more than a cramped two-story building in the foothills of the Henderson desert.
The last time UNLV’s football team received as much offseason coverage as it has since December was, well, never. The Rebels were splashed across the pages of newspapers and magazines that in recent years hadn’t offered the slightest glance towards the program. All of it was terrific for the brand. And, as of Friday morning, none of it meant a thing.
Paradise Valley, AZ. — A Paradise Valley great-grandmother who set out to make history while raising money to benefit underprivileged kids has achieved her goal.
Ann Simmons Nicholson has hired gaming industry workers in good times and bad. These days, times are good — not as good as in the 1990s and early 2000s when gaming was expanding across the country, but the recession is over.
Clark County district judges on Thursday denied motions to dismiss charges against two mentally ill inmates who’ve been held beyond the 14-day deadline for transporting detainees of questionable competence for treatment at a state psychiatric facility.
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A look at why you should plan a visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Since the first implosion in the Las Vegas Valley in 1993, they’ve become major events celebrating the new and remembering the old.
Several actors, athletes and musicians will “LifeRide” into Las Vegas on Monday and Tuesday for a motorcycle rally to raise money for amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.
Wiz Khalifa, in town to perform, treated 30 people in his tour crew to Tao Asian Bistro on Thursday, dining finely on Chilean sea bass, lobster wontons, sushi, Imperial Wagyu, orange chicken and vegetable fried rice, sake and cocktails.
Last time I talked to Khalifa, last year, he was telling me about the benefits of smoking weed (medicinal, happiness), so I asked him how he smokes it.
“Joints and bongs are my favorites. I don’t smoke blunts at all. Bongs are cool. They’re smoother than the pipe.”
All that food he and his crew ordered at Tao makes even more sense, if you think about it.
There’s a lingerie fight happening Saturday night, featuring women named “Babydoll,” “The Hammer,” “The Lotus,” “The Valkyrie,” “The Sorceress,” “El Toro,” “Aphrodite,” “Ladykillah,” “The Raven,” “Nuclear,” “Crash,” “Bloody,” “The Animal” and “Feisty Fists.”
Women have thrown underwear and hotel keys at Justin Shandor, who will headline Saturday’s “Elvis, the Vegas Tour Tribute” at M Resort.
A Charlotte County, Fla., deputy who may have found the catch of his life while fishing: 50 pounds of cocaine worth millions in the Gulf of Mexico.
First Friday in August may bring out a smaller crowd than you’ll see in the cooler months, but there’s still plenty going on.
Las Vegas police shot and killed a man who they said lunged at an officer with a sharp object inside a western valley home Friday morning.
Six men suspected in a yearslong series of crimes that included repeated ramming of police cars were arrested Friday. Las Vegas police said three of them were caught in the act of committing more crimes.
It’s been said that there are two certainties in life: death and taxes. There is most definitely a third: the federal government will never cease in its zeal to regulate you into those first two certainties. The latest example of this comes courtesy of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
It may be hard to imagine now after 14 years and four movies, but Shrek — the animated ogre with the flute-shaped ears — almost turned out very differently.
I totally disagree with the article on Latinos and the presidential election (“Vegas Hispanics say no to Trump, yes to a Democrat,” Monday Review-Journal). The majority of us will definitely not vote for Democrats. Democrats are trying to buy Latino votes by making false promises and offering free money (such as welfare).
State officials are dimming the lights and preparing to phase out an ambitious but short-lived program initially intended to help people stay in their homes as Nevada’s housing market crumbled and home values plummeted during the Great Recession.
For years, Quentin Abrmo rented space to other small businesses that shared the building’s open interior — a job he admits he did “poorly” without a formal business plan. But now Abramo has formalized the shared-space, co-work operation in a new role as managing partner of Co-Operate On, LLC.
A mother was charged with child cruelty and false imprisonment after authorities said her special needs children, an 11-year-old boy and 8-year-old girl, had been kept in homemade cages, investigators said on Friday.
Three Nevada correctional officers who were put on leave after a fatal shooting at a state prison in November have collected a combined $73,000 in salary and benefits while an investigation continues, records from the Department of Corrections show.
A Colorado jury sentenced movie rampage gunman James Holmes to life without parole on Friday, rejecting the death penalty for the 27-year-old who entered a midnight screening of a Batman film wielding a semi-automatic rifle, shotgun and pistol and killed a dozen people.
In a long expected move, the family of Kevin Ward Jr. has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against NASCAR driver Tony Stewart.
Las Vegas Justice Court Chief Judge Joe Bonaventure on Friday said his court lacked jurisdiction to hear motions to dismiss charges and release mentally ill detainees now languishing in jail.
