The Clark County district attorney’s office is creating a new unit to examine claims of innocence in light of revelations of wrongful criminal convictions around the country.
Carlos Ortiz got the call every parent fears. His son, Kevin, had been wounded in America’s latest mass shooting, in San Bernardino, Calif.
Regarding the editorial on the federal deficit, I have no problem with what is there, but I do have a problem with what was not there (“Balancing act,” Monday Review-Journal). The editorial provided several reasons for the ballooning deficit at the end of the George W. Bush era and the start of Barack Obama’s presidency. But it failed to mention the role of massive tax cuts.
The rematch between Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier and former champ Jon Jones has yet to be booked, but the war of words is already alive and well.
The haters have won. Nightclub detractors inside and outside of Las Vegas have bemoaned the burgeoning-cum-bloated club scene on the Strip for years.
Bishop Gorman running back Biaggio Ali Walsh was named the Gatorade Nevada Football Player of the Year on Thursday.
The Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on Thursday quietly approved a new policy created in response to a case of alleged sexual misconduct at the state agency.
A pedestrian was hit and killed by a vehicle Thursday evening in the southwest valley. Police responded to the 6100 block of Boulder Highway, just north of the Russell Road intersection, at 5:31 p.m., said Metro Lt. Harry Demetres.
By statute and tradition, inclusion in the state’s casino Black Book amounts to a lifetime ban. Once you’re on the infamous list of excluded persons, you’re on it for good until death do you part.
UNLV soon will finish a plan to overhaul its beleaguered journalism school. Administrators told state higher education officials Thursday that big changes are coming for the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies.
Follow the link for postseason boys soccer honors, as selected by coaches. All-league, all-region, all-Southern Nevada and all-state teams will be posted as they are received
Follow the link for postseason girls soccer honors, as selected by coaches. All-league, all-region, all-Southern Nevada and all-state teams will be posted as they are received
One day after 14 people were slain in a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid on Thursday blamed lawmakers for not acting on an “epidemic of gun violence” and described the National Rife Association as the Republican Party’s “quasi-militant wing.”
Syed Rizwan Farook, who along with wife Tashfeen Malik carried out the San Bernardino shooting massacre, apparently was radicalized and in touch with people being investigated by the FBI for international terrorism, law enforcement officials said Thursday.
Former Nevada Assembly Speaker and congressional candidate John Oceguera resigned Thursday from the the National Rifle Association and criticized the powerful gun lobby organization for not supporting gun reforms in the wake of Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif.
Las Vegas police are searching for man who went missing Thursday morning in the west valley and may need medical attention.
Are you one of those Las Vegans who lives here to get away from family so you can enjoy your life? Do you have zero interest in Thanksgiving or Black Friday?
What do you give the man who has everything? A tiger, apparently.
Drones — they kill for the government; they film movies; and now the rock group Muse is using them to loom menacingly above the heads of thousands of fans in concert, but fans are cheering them instead of fearing them.
Henderson police released surveillance photos Thursday and are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who robbed a smoke shop in September.
When basketball student sections across the country copied the UNLV Rebellion’s idea of a life-sized cut-out player, Las Vegas artist Sean Clauretie decided to design something “nobody else could replicate.”
One downtown site is a square block used for trailer homes and a “living experiment” where a well-known Las Vegas resident gets his shut-eye.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Dean Heller won a lopsided vote Thursday on his amendment to repeal the so-called Cadillac tax on expensive health insurance plans.
The Farmers Market is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays under the Pavilion at Downtown Summerlin
Looking for a healthy break from the season of gluttony? Elevated Juice opened in the northwest in September to offer Las Vegans nutritious and homemade drinks and food items.
A Las Vegas judge seemed wary Thursday of allowing two out-of-state attorneys to assist in a lawsuit filed by the family of a Henderson teenager who killed herself two years ago after reportedly suffering months of bullying.
Since this weekend’s “Krampus,” in which the lack of Christmas spirit unleashes an ancient pagan demon, isn’t being screened for critics, here’s a look at five other horror-comedies for the holidays:
Twenty years ago, the Matchbox Twenty frontman was maligned for not really fitting the rock star stereotype when his band was topping the charts, and so really he’s just keeping true to form now.
British rock band Coldplay will play the halftime show at the 2016 Super Bowl, according to media reports on Thursday.
I’m sure they put in some long days over at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. But where would you rather promote tourism and further a party culture? Las Vegas or Beirut?