The Olympics are an exciting thing. It may be because they only come around every two years. Or because you get to watch athletes compete for your country. Or maybe even another reason. But the fact is, they’re seriously exciting.
On Saturday, Saratoga will offer four stakes, including the Grade 1 Test and Whitney Handicap, and Mountaineer Park will card nine stakes, led by the West Virginia Derby.
With fog and lightning and rain bearing down, NASCAR rookie Chris Buescher, whose average 2016 finish was 27.8, stayed out on the track and won at Pocono.
UNLV assistant Rob Jeter spent the past 11 basketball seasons as the head coach at Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Now he’s trying to help first-year Rebels coach Marvin Menzies get off to a strong start.
With UNLV’s Sept. 1 season opener against Jackson State at Sam Boyd Stadium less than four weeks away, here are five things to watch in camp.
When the Rio Olympics begin Friday with the opening ceremony from Maracana Stadium, watch with a positive and impressed eye for those athletes and their immense sacrifices to reach such a global stage.
Despite the adaptations to the unified rules of mixed martial arts passed overwhelmingly at the Association of Boxing Commissions meeting on Wednesday, fights won’t look dramatically different any time soon.
UFC middleweight champ Michael Bisping used his radio show Thursday to announce the first defense of his middleweight title will happen on Oct. 8 in his hometown of Manchester, England, against Dan Henderson.
Family support staff from the Clark County district attorney’s office will offer free child support case help for noncustodial parents from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Child Support Center of Southern Nevada, 1900 E. Flamingo Road.
Las Vegas City Hall will serve as the site of an active shooter drill for local first responders Friday morning.
A California mayor was charged Thursday with providing alcohol to young adults last summer and making a secret recording of what prosecutors said was a game of strip poker that included a 16-year-old boy at a camp for underprivileged children run by the mayor.
If you doubted for whatever reason Hillary Clinton’s ability to triangulate, the candidate appeared in a crowded union hall in Las Vegas on Thursday to show she’s still got it.
Gov. Brian Sandoval and Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk have signed a statement of intent to advance relations between the two governments.
Henderson police have arrested four people who are suspected in a shooting at an Olive Garden restaurant and in a shoplifting incident at a grocery store Thursday night.
Charges of bribery, embezzlement and conspiracy have been dropped against Pasquale Rotella, the Electric Daisy Carnival guru who’s married to Holly Madison.
Our entertainment picks this week include Rod Stewart at Caesars Palace and Boz Scaggs at the Cannery.
One person suffered life-threatening injuries after a bee attack in the southwest valley Thursday morning, the Clark County Fire Department said.
Melania Trump’s former modeling agent says she obtained a work visa before she modeled professionally in the United States in the mid-1990s. Those comments came Thursday in response to questions about Mrs. Trump’s own remarks that appeared inconsistent with U.S. immigration rules.
For one Dutch man, what began as a grand romantic gesture ended in a futile 3,000 mile voyage, a 10-day stay in an airport terminal and a brief trip to the hospital.
Arizona-based health services operator Banner Health said Wednesday that it was the victim of a cyberattack potentially affecting
Hillary Clinton plans to keep Harry Reid’s phone number handy if she becomes president.
Nevada Democratic leaders poked fun at Republican nominee Donald Trump on multiple fronts at Hillary Clinton’s Las Vegas rally on Thursday.
This week’s lineup includes a free concert by Vertical Horizon at Fremont Street Experience.
Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, has launched a new scheduling system in about 650 Neighborhood Market stores that gives hourly workers more certainty about their schedules.
The nation needs to grow the middle class with training opportunities besides four-year college degrees, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton told a Las Vegas crowd Thursday.
Our picks this week for movies, TV and streaming video include the Olympics and Tim Burton’s “Batman.”
President Barack Obama vigorously denied on Thursday that a $400 million cash payment to Iran was ransom to secure the release of four Americans jailed in Tehran. He defended the transaction as evidence that the nuclear accord with Iran has allowed for progress on other matters.
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