International Game Technology reported on Twitter that the $1 Wheel of Fortune game was hit for $2,620,550 at the MGM Grand on Christmas Eve.
Dallas (12-2) has clinched the top seed in the NFC. Detroit (9-5) can lock up at least a wild-card spot by beating the Cowboys on Monday night.
Five players to watch in UNLV basketball games this week at Colorado State at 8 p.m. PST Wednesday and against Wyoming at the Thomas & Mack Center at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Women will make up 40 percent of the Legislature in 2017, tying Nevada with Colorado and Vermont as the states with the highest percentage of women legislators. That will benefit all Nevadans, they say.
President-elect Donald Trump’s plans regarding site for high-level nuclear waste remain unclear, but his pick for energy secretary endorsed plan to temporarily store it at site in Texas during his governorship.
Sony Music Entertainment’s Twitter account was hacked on Monday, publishing fake statements that pop music icon Britney Spears had died.
Bishop Gorman finished No. 1 in the final USA Today Super 25 football rankings released Monday and was crowned mythical national champions for the third consecutive season.
Families are enthusiastic about a potential North Campus for Opportunity Village.
Nilan Nasri was just 18 months old when his pediatrician noticed something special. Inspired, his parents later founded the Nasri Academy for Gifted Children in Henderson, a school that Nasri touts as the first independent, gifted elementary school in Nevada.
For those planning to spend New Year’s Eve in front of their television, Netflix is going to help you ring in the new year by streaming Countdown specials.
The First Friday arts festival is scheduled from 5 to 11 p.m. Jan. 6 at venues throughout the Las Vegas Arts District, near the intersection of Charleston Boulevard and Main Street. Live entertainment, artists’ booths, food vendors and more are planned. The event is set to include artists, the artisan bazaar, food trucks, music and a live painting exhibition. The streets surrounding the block that includes Art Square, 1025 S. First St., are set to close for tents and trucks with food, art and music.
Gift cards are a popular present at the holidays — the National Retail Federation says more than half of consumers plan to give one this year.
The Detroit Lions visit the Dallas Cowboys tonight and wrap up Week 16 of the NFL regular season with Monday Night Football.
A powerful typhoon blew out of the northern Philippines on Monday after killing at least six people and spoiling Christmas in several provinces, where more than 380,000 people abandoned celebrations at home to reach emergency shelters and other safer grounds.
For eight years, Barack Obama has led a military fighting in multiple theaters overseas, becoming the only president in U.S. history to serve full two terms with the nation at war. On Sunday, he thanked the men and women who sacrificed in battles that will continue even after his presidency is over.
Part II of a two-part series. The next UNLV athletic director will inherit football and men’s basketball programs in different stages of rebuilding.
Get ready to snap your fingers to a swinging number the moment Old Soles takes the stage. The name is an oxymoron, as the dance group is anything but old.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Monday that its troops had found mass graves in Syria’s Aleppo with bodies showing signs of torture and mutilation.
Travel conditions remained hazardous as a winter storm swept across much of the northern Great Plains Monday, with blowing and drifting snow creating near-zero visibility on some roads.
In Britain and other countries like Australia and Canada, the day after Christmas is a secular national holiday known as Boxing Day.
Across rural Nevada are tiny art, history and cultural outposts in sparsely populated areas whose survival depends on their ability to devise new and better ways to raise money.
General manager George McPhee and six members of the Golden Knights’ staff will be in Canada over the next 11 days to evaluate talent and possibly identify the team’s No. 1 amateur draft pick come June at the World Junior Hockey Championships that showcases the top under-20 age players.
“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” remains powerful at the U.S. holiday box office with a dominant $15 million on Christmas Eve at 4,157 sites and projections of a $120 million-plus haul over the six-day Dec. 21-26 period.
A little over 49 days — that’s all it took Frenchman Thomas Coville to sail around the world alone, to set what French officials say is a new world record.
Christmas Day falls on Sunday this year but most businesses are observing the holiday on Monday.
It was filthy, cramped and in major disarray, but when art historian Eva Lindqvist Sandgren entered the library in Altomuenster Abbey, off-limits to all but the German monastery’s nuns for more than five centuries, she immediately knew she was looking at a major treasure.
Authorities say rapper Troy Ave has been shot while sitting in his car at a Brooklyn intersection.
Reactions to the death of superstar George Michael, who died Sunday at his home at age 53.
A moped driver was critically injured after a crash Sunday in downtown Las Vegas.