Thirty-five years after Jim Craig helped lead the United States hockey team to a gold medal at the 1980 Olympics, the “Miracle on Ice” goaltender is hoping to make another impossible dream come true by selling all his memorabilia from the Lake Placid Games in one 19-item lot for $5.7 million.
Brandon Allen hit an RBI triple as part of a three-run first inning and later added a two-run homer to pad the 51s’ lead in a 5-2 win over the Tacoma Rainiers on Tuesday night in a Pacific Coast League game at Cashman Field.
The article in the July 26 Review-Journal about visitors who are taking “selfies” at Yellowstone National Park is further proof that you can’t fix stupid (“Bison attacks woman trying to take a selfie in Yellowstone Park”). When one goes to this majestic park, there are signs posted everywhere warning people to stay at least 30 yards away from the bison and other wild animals. Yet people, in their stupidity, choose to ignore the signs and get self-absorbed in taking a selfie using their cameras. Then, when they are injured, immediately the rangers and other park personnel have to rush to their aid. As cold as it may sound, these people should be fined. Maybe they would learn a lesson and heed the warnings that are posted.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in finding two men in connection with a bank robbery Wednesday in the southwest valley.
A family was betrayed by their house-sitter this weekend when they went on vacation and returned to a crime scene.
The longtime face of the massive scheme to take over and defraud Las Vegas-area homeowners associations is about to face punishment.
They watch in the clubhouse daily, eyes peered on big brother, each intent on joining him soon. Winners following the actions of winners.
Kim Richards, part of television’s “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” ensemble, spent a night in jail after her arrest on suspicion of shoplifting $600 worth of merchandise from a Target discount store in Los Angeles, police said on Tuesday.
Saul Ortiz, corporate executive chef of Tacos & Tequila at Luxor, waxes absolutely poetic as he talks about preparing grilled corn.
The National Football League players union on Tuesday made public a full transcript of star New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s June 23 appeal of his four-game “Deflategate” suspension before league Commissioner Roger Goodell.
Joining other local water districts, Henderson approved an added fee on water bills Tuesday to help pay for a new pumping station at Lake Mead. The money will go to the Southern Nevada Water Authority, not the city.
Summer is almost over, and you’re staring down the barrel of another long year. Work, school, winter — it’s all screaming for you to take one last summer vacation. And if you’re like a lot of people, that has you reaching for your credit cards.
A coroner has concluded that a 9-year-old Maryland boy who was fatally beaten over a missing piece of birthday cake died from head injuries, a spokeswoman for the agency said on Tuesday.
Hundreds of motorcycles, buggies, trucks and ATVs will race across the Nevada desert in what’s billed as the longest off-highway race in the United States.
For someone who’s been an out-there outcast from the start, Hedwig’s flirting dangerously with the mainstream.
The team announced Tuesday that assistant general manager Al Avila will take over as general manager and vice president of baseball operations.
Magic is all about dreams. But sometimes, dreams turn into nightmares.
By now, you’ve probably heard that KXTE-FM, 107.5’s “Dave, Mahoney & DK Morning Show” is moving to Houston, where it will take over the airwaves at MIX 96.5 starting Sept. 14.
Three people were injured when a car crashed into another vehicle and then into a building Monday night in the central valley, according to Las Vegas police.
At one point, Clark County’s attorney asked the union president if his organization’s bargaining position was “greedy.”
Marion, N.C., parents are facing charges after deputies say their 3-month-old daughter was admitted to a hospital with broken and displaced bones. The baby also reportedly suffered from an infection.
It’s just a slash of asphalt in the shadow of the Stratosphere Tower, but humble Baltimore Avenue at last might have found itself in the perfect location.
After a 22-year-old engineer in San Francisco was featured online in a campaign poster for her company OneLogin, she decided to use the attention and highlight her dislike of sexist stereotypes in the science and technology world.
Yet another Hollywood power couple bit the dust on Tuesday as Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog announced their separation, conveniently setting a new dynamic for the upcoming “The Muppets” television show.
Robert Murnane was sworn in as Henderson’s new city manager Tuesday evening after the City Council voted to approve a contract with a starting salary of $228,500 a year.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dean Heller on Tuesday called President Barack Obama’s creation of a 704,000-acre national monument conservation area in Nevada a “disgrace,” saying it was done without input from lawmakers or the rural counties it affects the most.
Jerry Jack Kaufman, an “old-school nice guy” and prominent lawyer in Las Vegas who loved law, skiing and baseball, died in his sleep Sunday of natural causes. He was 79.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald returned to Las Vegas Tuesday where he set goals a year ago to restore trust in an agency rocked by scandals.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. said Tuesday its net revenue increased 17.4 percent in the second quarter, crediting the openings of The Cromwell on the Strip and the Horseshoe Baltimore and the $223 million renovation of The Linq hotel-casino for the boost in results.
