Turkey’s president declared he is in control of the country early Saturday as loyal military and police forces fought to squash a coup attempt during a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire that left dozens dead.
Four teams advanced in the NBA Summer League on Friday at UNLV. Four games are scheduled for Saturday beginning at 1 p.m.
Elvis tribute artists from around the country and the world attended the “Images of the King Las Vegas” Elvis Festival and competition Thursday through Sunday at Sam’s Town hotel-casino.
Firefighters helped by favorable winds are working to keep a 2-week-old wildlife from moving toward the highway serving the lodge, restaurant and main campgrounds on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
Norma Patricia Esparza was a Southern California college student in 1995 when she says she was raped by a man she met at a bar. Weeks later, she went back to the same spot and pointed him out to her ex-boyfriend. He and two others followed Gonzalo Ramirez out of the bar, kidnapped him and hacked him to death with a meat cleaver, authorities say.
If Friday’s game against the Iowa Cubs could have ended after the second inning, that would have been just fine for the Las Vegas 51s.
The Las Vegas retail market saw a drop in vacancy rates compared to this time one year ago, from 11 percent to 10.3 percent.
Newly declassified pages from a congressional report into 9/11 released Friday have reignited speculation that some of the hijackers had links to Saudis, including government officials — allegations that were never substantiated by later U.S. investigations into the terrorist attacks.
If a North Carolina congressman has his way, the EPA will have to start living up to its dubious climate change rhetoric and the agency’s expensive and expansive regulatory overreach.
Pastors play a vital role in times of grief. Providing a source of comfort, the church is a safe place to say goodbye to loved ones and members of the congregation. But what happens if the pastor does not know the deceased well or at all?
A lawsuit against polygamous leader Warren Jeffs is taking aim at the group’s longtime Utah law firm, arguing attorneys created a veneer of legality that helped leaders perpetuate abuses like child labor and underage marriage.
Residents can expect a warm and breezy weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
Antonio Esfandiari charged up the chip counts in the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold ’em World Championship and will be in seventh place when play resumes Friday afternoon at the Rio Convention Center with Day 4.
Gov. Brian Sandoval met with Lincoln County Commissioners at the Panaca middle school and held a town-hall-style meeting with the community’s volunteer first responders at the fire station Friday morning, as he toured the site of Wednesday’s bomb attack.
Four months before he blew himself up in front of a house in the Lincoln County town of Panaca, Glenn Franklin Jones was stripped of his Nevada nursing license for mishandling narcotics.
Two palm trees caught on fire causing a house fire in the southwest valley Friday afternoon. Las Vegas Fire and Rescue responded to a call of two palm trees on fire at 5001 Churchill Avenue near South Decatur Boulevard and Meadows Lane around 3:40 p.m.
Tom Middleton, a professional poker player from England, owns the unofficial lead at the dinner break Friday on Day 4 of the World Series of Poker’s $10,000 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold ’em World Championship.
Chris Paul started building education centers after he and his wife visited schools for his son and settled on a “first class” one with smart boards and “computers everywhere.” “All I could think was, ‘This is amazing. We’re so blessed and fortunate we can do this for our kids. But what about the other people growing up on the other side of town, and those kids?’”
Two people were injured, one critically, in a rollover crash Friday evening in the east valley.
Becky Hammon, the first woman to coach a men’s team to a championship, was unable to repeat as NBA Summer League champions with the San Antonio Spurs. But she said the week in Las Vegas was successful despite coming up short of a second title.
Play has begun at Cox Pavilion and Thomas & Mack Center for Day 8 of the NBA Summer League, the final day of the Summer League eight-game schedule. We’re live-blogging from the arena’s all day.
Joyce Rhone’s face was slashed by a co-worker at the Bellagio in 2012. On Friday, one of her lawyers told a Clark County jury that she deserved at least $1.7 million in lost wages.
UFC heavyweight Brock Lesnar has been notified by the United States Anti-Doping Agency of a potential violation of the anti-doping policy, the organization announced on Friday.
Nevada immigration reform advocate Astrid Silva will speak on opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this month, alongside U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and First Lady Michelle Obama.
A Nevada Highway Patrol trooper helped prevent a bikini-clad woman who was running in freeway traffic from being seriously injured during an incident last month, the Nevada Highway Patrol said in a release Friday.
Seven people, including one suffering from smoke inhalation, were displaced after a house fire in the southwest valley Thursday afternoon, fire officials said.
Caretakers are raising three bear cubs after their mother was struck by a car and killed at Yosemite National Park in California.
Retesting of the water supply this week at the Mt. Charleston Lodge restaurant found no evidence of elevated bacterial levels after concerns over one positive result.
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson thinks it’s a real possibility that he’ll be sharing the prime-time debate stage with the Democratic and Republican party nominees this fall, he said Friday.
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