British boy band One Direction swept the top honors at Sunday’s American Music Awards, while a sorrowful tribute to the victims of the attacks in Paris lent a somber note to a night of otherwise vibrant performances.
There’s an image I have of Kyle Busch, the lead foot from Las Vegas who won his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship Sunday in Florida. It was before he built a reputation for being a more excellent driver than “Rain Man.” He might have still been driving in the truck series full-time.
Nevada officials dispute the findings of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff’s latest impact report for the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
Nevada Highway Patrol officers will be out and about “during high times of traffic” starting Monday, and any drivers they pull over who are not wearing their seatbelts will be ticketed — “no warning,” said Loy Hixson, spokesman for highway patrol’s southern Nevada command.
Carson Palmer said Sunday night’s showdown against the Cincinnati Bengals wasn’t going to be “just another game.”
The valley is cooling down just in time for Thanksgiving Day celebrations, travel and holiday shopping. Valley residents should expect a “big change” midweek, National Weather Service meteorologist Chris Outler said Sunday.
A gunfight between two groups erupted on Sunday in a New Orleans park where hundreds of people were gathered for a block party and the filming of a music video, leaving 16 people wounded, police said.
One person was wounded in a shooting on Paradise Road near the Harmon Avenue intersection, Las Vegas police said.
Homicide detectives are investigating the “suspicious death” of a woman found in a pool of blood at a northwest valley apartment complex Sunday, Las Vegas police said.
Classes and activities at Mojave High School will go on as normal Monday after a fatal shooting during an after-school brawl next to the campus Friday, the school principal said.
Kyle Busch, born and raised in Las Vegas, won his first career NASCAR Sprint Cup championship on Sunday. Busch captured the 2015 title by being the top finisher in the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Florida.
France will share counterterrorism intelligence with Brazil ahead of next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the foreign ministers of both countries said in a press conference in Brasilia on Sunday.
A 41-year-old northern white rhino died on Sunday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, leaving just three members of the critically endangered species alive worldwide, zoo officials said.
Henderson police have arrested a man and a woman suspected in a robbery and shooting in the victim’s Henderson apartment days later.
One of the Las Vegas Valley’s oldest, most storied golf courses could soon change hands. Las Vegas Country Club members confirmed Wednesday their 18-hole, member-owned course had been listed with a commercial real estate brokerage firm and would be offered up for sale sometime in the next month.
An Iranian court has sentenced Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian to prison for spying, the semiofficial news agency Tasnim reported Sunday.
A man was found shot dead in a vacant house Saturday near the intersection of Flamingo Road and Arville Street, Las Vegas police said.
The battle over maintaining life support for a 20-year-old Las Vegas woman continues this week in Reno. It focuses on the question of when is a person considered dead.
Paris and Brussels continued to defend against the threat of terrorist attacks Sunday, with the Belgian capital keeping service suspended on all of its subway and underground tram lines, while France’s education ministry implemented strict security protocols for its schools.
A statement from the Nevada Assembly GOP caucus supporting other Republican leaders for demanding a review of federal safeguards before accepting more Syrian refugees was less than unanimous.
A Turkish Airlines flight bound for Istanbul from New York was diverted to Canada because of a bomb threat, authorities said.
Bobby Hauck was finally on the winning sideline at Sam Boyd Stadium. Which means he was on the opposing side.
Hillary Clinton will use a town hall in Iowa on Sunday to pitch a tax credit for up to $6,000 in expenses that fall on families “paying for, coordinating, or providing care for aging or disabled family members,” according to a campaign aide.
One of the hardest things you’ll ever have to do is take the keys away from the family patriarch. When it’s time for that to happen, it’s bound to provoke arguments, heartaches and headaches for all parties involved. But it’s also a necessary step in the life cycle.
Natalia Ruiz, age 10, smiled at numerous cameras while wearing purple and white orchids.
Thirty-five years later, Clark County Fire Capt. Jon Sabol can’t escape the horrific images of the MGM Grand fire.
Cruise boats plying Lake Mead and the Colorado River offer daytime sightseeing tours, evening dinner cruises and opportunities for celebrating special events. The Desert Princess on Lake Mead above Hoover Dam and the Celebration on the Colorado at Laughlin are jaunty replica paddle-wheelers reminiscent of Mississippi River steamboats. The USS Riverside is a sleek modern cruiser built to motor upstream from Laughlin under the highway bridge toward Davis Dam.
The Black Lives Matter activist who protested at Donald Trump’s campaign rally on Saturday said the half-dozen white attendees who shoved, tackled, punched and kicked him also flung racial epithets his way.
Most made-in-Vegas movies — from “Ocean’s Eleven” (1960 or 2001, take your pick) to “The Hangover” — are just like tourists. They hit the town, they gaze in wonder at the neon-bedecked excess, they survive assorted hijinks. Then they go home. But a few Vegas movies get us, really get us, right where we live. And no movie fills that bill better than “Casino.”
Political advocacy for Nevada veterans is about to get nastier and more confusing — and perhaps much better.
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