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The Rebels’ first two-a-day is Wednesday, with the team practicing under the morning sun at Rebel Park before returning to the field for an evening workout at Sam Boyd Stadium.
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Southern Nevada health officials publicly presented the first local multi-agency community health improvement plan Wednesday morning at the Clark County Government Center.
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The body of a northern Arizona man who went missing while swimming with family Monday was found Tuesday in the Colorado River in northwest Arizona.
A serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” was sentenced to death Wednesday for the murders of nine women and a teenage girl that went unsolved for years as the body count grew in a poor section of Los Angeles haunted by the scourge of crack cocaine.
U.S. employers advertised more openings and hired more people in June, adding to evidence that the job market has rebounded from a brief soft patch in the spring.
Starting when his subject was roughly the same age as his intended readers, Loki Mulholland tells the little-known story of his mother, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, and the unsung work she did for Civil Rights.
Brandon Lee found he was eating out every day because he didn’t know how to cook. His friend Jen Debs helped him out teaching him to shop, what to keep in the pantry and how to prepare it. They share the adventure in the “Millennial Cookbook.”
James Corden has booked Britney Spears for a ride in his passenger seat for the next version of his viral hit “Carpool Karaoke.”
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About 300 people attended a candlelight vigil at the Hendersonville home where an 11-year-old girl was accidentally shot to death by her father.
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The monkey on a Las Vegas-bound Frontier Airlines flight from Ohio was a certified service animal, airline officials said.
Twelve prematurely born babies were killed in a fire that broke out in the early hours of Wednesday on a maternity ward in a Baghdad hospital and was probably caused by an electrical fault, Iraqi authorities said.
A woman was fatally shot by an officer while participating in a “shoot-don’t shoot” exercise during a two-hour citizens academy hosted by the Punta Gorda Police Department in southwest Florida.
A Las Vegas man died after his motorized scooter crashed into a central valley business Tuesday night.
Longtime ESPN television host John Saunders has died at the age of 61, the cable sports network said on Wednesday.
Tesla said on Wednesday that one of its cars had crashed in Beijing while in ‘autopilot’ mode, with the driver contending sales staff sold the function as ‘self-driving,’ overplaying its actual capabilities.
Former National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern, a supporter of legalized sports wagering, will address next month’s Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas.
The head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division says the Baltimore Police Department’s unconstitutional and discriminatory practices have “deeply eroded” the relationship between officers and the community.
A 10-year-old boy who was killed at a Kansas water park while riding on a 17-story waterslide was decapitated, a source told The Associated Press Wednesday.
Day Five of the Rio Olympics will feature more swimming, the United States’ Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross in beach volleyball, U.S. women’s field hockey facing Japan and U.S. men’s basketball against Australia.
About 40 people attended a Strangulation Seminar in July at UNLV to learn what to look for to identify strangulation in victims. According to the Metropolitan Police Department, Nevada saw about 700,000 reported cases of strangulation in 2014.
Yair Rodriguez continued his impressive ascent in the UFC featherweight division with a win over Alex Caceres in the main event of the UFC’s first card in Utah. It just wasn’t quite enough to supplant any of the top-10 featherweights in the newest CoveringTheCage.com rankings.
Another UFC fighter failed a drug test issued by the United States Anti-Doping Agency. Ning Guangyou, however, will not face discipline for the transgression.