The Philadelphia 76ers won the NBA draft lottery Tuesday night and will have the No. 1 pick in June. The Los Angeles Lakers finished second but also felt like winners, as they would have dealt their pick to Philadelphia had they fallen out of the top three.
A man was taken to the hospital Tuesday morning after a kitchen fire broke out in a Henderson townhouse.
A Clark County School District police officer was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on charges of using excessive force against two people, including a student, at a North Las Vegas disciplinary school and then trying to cover it up.
The Clark County district attorney’s office is devoting additional resources to combat the spike in violent crimes affecting the valley so far this year.
The controversial University of Michigan satellite football camp summer tour is coming to Las Vegas.
A former Rancho High School teacher was sentenced Tuesday to between six and 15 years in prison after he was convicted in March of kidnapping and sexual conduct with a student.
UNLV’s budding medical school is closer to getting a home in the Las Vegas Valley’s medical district.
Texas Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor punched Toronto’s Jose Bautista on Sunday and two days later Major League Baseball retaliated with an eight-game suspension, according to reports.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight champ will put his belt on the line against Tyron Woodley at UFC 201 in Atlanta on July 30.
Jose Tinoco achieved a longtime dream two months ago by opening an auto body repair shop just south of Nellis Air Force Base. The business bearing his name was permitted by the secretary of state’s office and Clark County, but Tinoco said he didn’t realize he needed to be licensed by a third agency: the Department of Motor Vehicles.
A judge this week vacated the conviction of a woman who said her gambling addiction led to stealing more than $500,000 from a business where she worked.
The message is fairly obvious: Some across the league are rightly moving away from one of the NFL’s more hypocritical opinions — which is a pretty sizable list.
The man shot and killed inside a trailer at an east valley mobile home park where a woman was also shot and injured Sunday has been identified by the Clark County coroner.
This week marks the beginning of the national Click It or Ticket campaign, a multi-jurisdictional law enforcement program focused on saving lives.
It’s the short and simple, yet very accurate answer to whether there is any merit to the ridiculous charade of a proposed boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor.
A Las Vegas pimp who lured a teenager into prostitution and tortured her for months was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Bitterness over the Nevada Democratic convention festered Tuesday with presidential candidate Bernie Sanders blaming the state party for “preventing a fair” process and national party leaders denouncing the chaos that marred the weekend convention in Las Vegas.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Tuesday proposed legalizing gay marriage, a move that would enshrine on a national level a Supreme Court ruling last year that it was unconstitutional for states to bar same-sex couples from wedding.
Oklahoma City center Steven Adams apologized for using a derogatory term to describe Golden State’s guards after Game 1 of the Western Conference finals.
An inmate was recaptured in Woodland, California, on Monday after escaping from a Carson City work site May 11.
Former UFC middleweight champ Chris Weidman recently said he wakes up every day thinking about getting his belt back from Luke Rockhold when they rematch for the title on June 4. He will have to wait a bit longer for the opportunity.
New-home construction rose in April, extending a pattern of gains and losses that signals the U.S. homebuilding industry is contributing little to economic growth.
George Mason University is free to rename its law school for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after a Virginia council decided it had no oversight role in the matter.
Ynoa improved to 5-0 while submitting his seventh straight quality start for the 51s, Kelly went 3-for-5 to lift his league-leading average to .413 and Rivera drove in three runs to increase his PCL-best RBI total to 34.
A vivid, pearl-shaped pink diamond said to be the largest of its kind to go under the hammer has sold at auction for 27.3 million Swiss francs ($28 million) at a Sotheby’s auction.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo disagrees with FBI Director James B. Comey about what’s driving a national spike in violent crime.
A Golden Valley, Arizona, woman suffered a fatal medical event before she crashed the pickup she was driving in north Kingman on Monday, authorities have determined.
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake reported in rural Northern Nevada on Saturday was felt near the site of the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert, seismologists said.
Alabama offensive lineman Cam Robinson and reserve defensive back Laurence “Hootie” Jones have been arrested on drug and weapons charges.
The Food Network celebrity chef rappelled 22 stories of the casino’s facade Monday night to announce the opening, which he said would take place sometime next year.
