The sons of convicted spy Ethel Rosenberg returned to the White House on Thursday, more than 50 years after pleading unsuccessfully to spare her life, in a last-ditch appeal to President Barack Obama to exonerate her amid new evidence.
During music director Donato Cabrera’s time with the San Francisco Symphony, “we’ve always had ‘Peter and the Wolf,’ ” he says, along with a narrator of note. To rekindle the tradition in Las Vegas, he has tapped Rita Moreno as narrator.
Demonstrators know the real deep freeze lies ahead, when the full weight of the Great Plains winter descends on their community of nylon tents and teepees. Life-threatening wind chills and towering snow drifts could mean the greatest challenge is simple survival.
At least 200,000 conservative Muslims rallied peacefully in the Indonesian capital on Friday in the second major protest against its minority Christian governor, who is being prosecuted for alleged blasphemy.
As you prepare for the holidays by stocking up on gifts, here’s a list of everything you should buy — and avoid buying — this December.
The crash happened at the intersection of Ann Road and Coleman Street, near Simmons Street.
It’s rodeo time again in Las Vegas, and the first night of action at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo didn’t disappoint the throngs of fans who packed UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center.
Cody Cabral has chosen a journey away from what most view one the country’s most precious jewels, chasing his rainbow from a trailer as he travels across the nation in search of the next rodeo.
Two of UNLV’s middle blockers, sophomore Elsa Descampes and junior Ashley Owens, finished in the top seven in the Mountain West in blocks per set.
Former Purdue running backs coach DeAndre Smith soon will be hired for the same position at UNLV, a source confirmed.
Walter Payton, the all-time NFL great known as “Sweetness,” gave a stirring speech the day before the Las Vegas Bowl in 1997.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a surprising 4-1 straight up and ATS on the road this season, are live 4-point underdogs at San Diego on Sunday.
As he sat in the Pilot truck stop in North Las Vegas, trucker Jerry Jackson, a Texan, said President-elect Trump can easily save millions of jobs in the trucking industry by simply stopping the movement toward driverless trucks. He said working people need to be taken into consideration more than technology.
It’s a big weekend for quarterback Deshaun Watson, who can lead Clemson back to the College Football Playoff and make his case for the Heisman Trophy.
The New Orleans Saints are one of the NFL’s hottest bets, covering seven of their past eight games.
With Trevor Brazile out of the competition, the National Finals Rodeo began Thursday at the Thomas & Mack Center with the promise of the closest race for the all-around title in years.
Durango went on an 11-0 third-quarter run to take control en route to a 66-55 win over the Wildcats in the Trailblazers’ season opener.
The Claiming Crown is copied after the Breeders’ Cup, but as the name says, it is for horses that have run in a claiming race.
Kurt Busch mostly wanted to talk about the Vegas Golden Knights and the possibility of the Oakland Raiders moving to Las Vegas and how much he still misses In-N-Out Burger.
Legacy coach Jack Tarango sat all five of his starters midway through the third quarter, and the reserves carried the host Longhorns the rest of the way in a 53-42 victory over Canyon View (Utah) to open the Legacy Tip-Off Classic.
Monster Energy drink, the sponsor of Las Vegas’ Kurt Busch in the Cup Series, will replace Sprint as the title sponsor of NASCAR’s premier division.
Nearly 2½ years after the brash playmaker from California entered the program, Tate Martell is set to finish his illustrious prep career Saturday.
George Buch, a part-time math instructor at UNLV, has embroiled the university in a national immigration debate that was a focus of the presidential campaign and appears to have been reignited across the country in recent days.
After months of coaching opposite on another on TUF 24, UFC flyweight contenders Henry Cejudo and Joseph Benavidez are ready to scrap.
Geoff Faries connected on five 3-pointers and finished with 17 points as Basic’s boys basketball team held on for a 64-61 win over visiting Chaparral on Thursday.
The inaugural nonstop Hainan Airlines flight from Beijing to Las Vegas that departs Friday is the culmination of many years of ongoing discussions that included branding Las Vegas to Chinese officials in the most tactful way possible, Las Vegas tourism officials say.
Iymoni Burrell and Shania Harper each scored 18 points on Thursday to lead Sierra Vista’s girls basketball team to a 59-56 win over host Cimarron-Memorial.
First-round results from the National Finals Rodeo on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016.
Veteran UFC featherweight Gray Maynard had been asking himself a lot of questions during his past few training camps. It turns out he found many of the answers simply by winning a fight.
Virgin Valley’s wrestling team recorded eight first-period pins on Thursday on the way to a 65-9 win over Moapa Valley in Overton.