As it enters its third season, the body-painting competition “Skin Wars” (10 p.m. Wednesday, GSN) has raised the profile of the art form around the world, says Las Vegas artist Robin Slonina, who pulls double duty as a producer and judge on the series.
The friendly neighborhood Spider-Man’s next adventure has an official title.
A lawsuit against the state’s former prison food service contractor says an inmate in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula damaged his teeth on rocks in a taco.
Kids who hold a fascination with caterpillars and bugs will find a kindred spirit in Linda Vander Heyden’s title character. Mr. McGinty is smart and definitely resourceful, but also a little childlike in his need for the butterflies’ well-being and his zeal to save the caterpillars at any cost.
Photographer John Gladman celebrates beautiful girls from all walks of life in his book “Bombshell: The Pin-Up Art of John Gladman.”
Attorneys say two sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and three other men are due to be transferred in custody from Oregon to Nevada to face charges stemming from an armed confrontation with government agents two years ago.
Find book signings and writing events throughout the Las Vegas Valley.
Ikea employees answer fans’ questions during a tour of the store before it opens May 18.
The killer of former Saints defensive end Will Smith shot him eight times in the back after deliberately ramming his Hummer into the NFL veteran’s Mercedes SUV hard enough to shatter its back window, the Smith family’s lawyer said Wednesday.
There are 14 games on the schedule as the NBA wraps up the regular season. No game will be hyped more than Kobe’s career finale, although there probably will be no playoff implications when the Lakers host the Utah Jazz.
“When it hit the bottom, it wanted to throw him in the air in the opposite direction at the same speed,” Szymanski said, which caused the resulting launch. “If he didn’t have that harness on, it would’ve catapulted him into the air and he would’ve landed on the ground somewhere.”
The Texas teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck must serve nearly two years in jail, a judge ordered Wednesday.
A man was shot during an attempted robbery Wednesday morning in central Las Vegas, police said.
A man robbed a fast-food restaurant early Wednesday morning armed with a sword, Las Vegas police said.
Two men, one armed with a shotgun, robbed a bar after tying up the bartender Wednesday morning, police said.
Police have arrested Atlanta Braves outfielder Hector Olivera after a woman accused him of assault at a hotel outside Washington.
Stephen Macht, also a Jewish chaplain, plays multiple roles in “My Name Is Asher Lev,” which Jewish Repertory Theatre of Nevada presents in a fully staged reading this weekend at Temple Sinai.
A man died in an early morning crash Wednesday on the 215 Beltway, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
SquidHat Records gives local bands a place to grow and shine. It is not an endeavor, though, that makes much money.
Las Vegas temperatures will peak Wednesday before cooling down for a stormy weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
Tens of thousands of Verizon Communications Inc. workers walked off the job on Wednesday in one of the largest U.S. strikes in recent years after contract talks hit an impasse.
South Point oddsmaker Jimmy Vaccaro posted this proposition bet Monday: How many games will the Golden State Warriors lose in the NBA playoffs? The total is 5½, with the under favored at minus-130.
