The Justice Department issued new guidelines to state and municipal court systems aimed at preventing indigent defendants from being jailed because they’re too poor to pay fines for minor infractions.
Some of the top high school basketball players in Southern Nevada will face off Tuesday in the inaugural Las Vegas Basketball Classic at Spring Valley.
Former Yale basketball captain Jack Montague was expelled over a sexual assault allegation and plans to sue the school, his attorney said Monday.
The men’s basketball coach at University of California, Berkeley, is moving to fire an assistant coach who violated the school’s sexual harassment policy.
Police say evidence shows a gunman who killed an officer outside a police station in a Maryland suburb of the nation’s capital “intended to die during a gun battle with police.”
Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes has apologized to the “people of France” for his “absurd accusations” that guards at Paris’ Bataclan theater may have been involved in November’s terrorist massacre during a concert by the American rock band.
The nation’s main daily fantasy sports companies are opposing New Jersey’s effort to regulate them because a proposed measure does not explicitly say they offer games of skill instead of gambling.
A crash at East Charleston Boulevard and South Lamb Boulevard on Monday morning sent one person to the hospital, according to Las Vegas police.
A fight for control of the Starwood hotel chain, which is tied to several Las Vegas properties, is underway following a $14 billion buyout offer Monday from a consortium led by China’s Anbang Insurance Group.
Republican presidential candidate John Kasich’s campaign on Monday denied a report that Mitt Romney, the party’s presidential candidate in 2012, would endorse the Ohio governor on Monday.
A man is in custody after a convenience store shooting on the Las Vegas Strip early Monday morning, according to police.
An engineer noticed a significant bend in a rail and applied the emergency brakes before a passenger train derailed in western Kansas early Monday, an official said.
The San Diego State Aztecs and former Mountain West Conference team the Brigham Young University Cougars are headed to the National Invitation Tournament.
The motorcyclist who died Sunday morning in a crash in North Las Vegas has been identified by the Clark County coroner.
An abandoned apartment complex in the south central valley caught fire Monday morning, according to the Clark County Fire Department.
Zombies are invading Universal Studios Hollywood … all year long.
The final night of the Neon Reverb music festival closed with a performance by Ty Segall & The Muggers at Bunkhouse Saloon.
Rosie’s Den, a White Hills, Ariz., watering hole for truckers, tourists and Nevadans looking to win big, has stopped selling lottery tickets.
One person was displaced after a fire Sunday afternoon in the northeast valley, according to a Las Vegas Fire Department release.
Local government officials in Southern Nevada are worried that a decade-old law enacted to protect Nevadans from the rising property taxes that came with skyrocketing house prices could cripple their funding for at least the next few years.
When 64-year-old Mesquite resident Charlene Lacenski visits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health to see her doctor, she might as well be carrying a microphone and standing under a spotlight.
The third night of the Neon Reverb music festival featured Melvins and a full complement of up and coming bands at five venues downtown.
By the time the water began to rise, it was nearly too late. Scrambling up the rock-face under darkening skies and torrents of rain, Ryan Doble — 17 at the time, 22 now — was with five friends at Red Rock Canyon, trying to escape rising waters of a flash flood.
One person has died and six people were displaced from their east valley apartment after a fire Sunday morning, according to the Clark County Fire Department.
A topsy-turvy season in college basketball delivered a few more twists when the brackets came out Sunday.
Betting on the NCAA Tournament in Las Vegas is a supersized version of the Super Bowl. Instead of one big game, this is an unpredictable 67-game tournament staged over three weeks. A total of 32 games tip off Thursday and Friday with another wild 48 hours to follow.
Supporters of UNLV legend Stacey Augmon’s effort to become the next Rebels basketball coach took out a full-page advertisement in Monday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal. The ad states it was paid for by “Rebels for Success.”
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are running against each other. But they’re making their cases by using the same opponent: Donald Trump.
In 2008, the Clark County district attorney’s office created a database to assure lawmakers that prosecutors would be upfront about deals made with criminals in exchange for their testimony.