Jalen Hill, a 6-foot-6-inch sophomore, threw down a ferocious dunk late in the game to put an exclamation point on Clark’s 72-50 nonleague win over host Las Vegas.
Henderson resident Russell Taylor was driving down Wigwam Avenue when he spied flames coming from a passing minivan Thursday afternoon. He pulled a quick u-turn and caught up to the driver, alerting her to the flames and pulling her from the vehicle.
Demetrius Valdez had 20 points on Thursday to lead Durango’s boys basketball team to a 65-63 road win over Sierra Vista.
A woman is in the hospital with critical injuries after a hit-and-run rollover crash Thursday on Boulder Highway.
Virgin Valley’s flag football team scored two second-half touchdowns to rally from a six-point halftime deficit and defeat Tech, 26-19 in a battle of top Class 3A Sunrise League teams on Thursday.
Two members of Tower of Power, a group that has been an R&B institution for nearly 50 years, were hit by a train Thursday night as they walked across tracks before a performance in their hometown of Oakland, but both survived, their manager said.
Sierra Shaw scored nine points to lead Chaparral’s girls basketball team to a 28-24 road win over Del Sol on Thursday.
As much as a half-inch of rain is expected to fall Friday in the Las Vegas Valley, and a winter weather advisory has been issued for the southern Spring Mountains, according to the National Weather Service.
Desert Oasis shot poorly from the foul line on the night, but made their shots at the end to lift them over Spring Valley.
An elderly northern Nevada woman died last year from a bacterial infection resistant to all 26 antibiotics available in the U.S., highlighting the growing public health threat posed by so-called “superbugs.”
Despite failing in a bid to bring a Major League Soccer team to Las Vegas two years ago, Mayor Carolyn Goodman isn’t done fighting to bring a professional sports team to the core of the city proper.
Charter schools are not even obliged to hire people who have been through an education program! Nor do they require a gifted or special education program.
If Republicans vote to repeal Obamacare, the only moral thing for them to do is to discontinue medical insurance for themselves and their families. They should join the uninsured that very day.
Why didn’t they know what was going on?
Mr. Root is a breath of fresh air. I’ve never read a columnist before who says exactly what I feel and believe.
With a new Republican Congress sworn in — and a new president on the way — the thorny issue of government funding for Planned Parenthood is about to hit the top of the legislative agenda.
The Obama administration has been nothing if not prolific when it comes to expanding the administrative state on the way out the door. Under the law, Congress could go after any regulation issued since June 13.
The national survey of more than 8,000 law enforcement personnel found that more than three-quarters were now hesitant to use force even when necessary. In addition, 73 percent said they are now less likely to stop and confront people acting suspiciously.
The sister of the man whose body was found burned and dismembered in a desert lot three days after Christmas said Thursday that “no one deserves” to be killed and discarded the way he was.
Nintendo Co. says its Nintendo Switch video game console will sell for 29,980 yen (about $260) in Japan, starting March 3.
No arrests have been made, and the investigation is ongoing into the burglary at an apartment complex at 6501 W. Charleston Blvd., near Rainbow Boulevard, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
Aria is suing a former executive, Mi Morse, and The Cosmopolitan, alleging Morse took Aria’s confidential information before leaving in late 2016 and is now using it to solicit Aria’s most well-heeled customers to gamble at The Cosmopolitan.
Oakland Raiders executives have told the NFL that Goldman Sachs is committed to financing the team’s proposed domed stadium in Las Vegas with or without an investment from casino executive Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas Stadium Authority board learned Thursday.
A man who shot and wounded an Arizona state trooper Thursday along a remote highway and then started slamming the helpless officer’s head into the pavement as the two struggled was shot to death by a passing driver, authorities said.
San Diego might have opened a door much wider for the potential of Sam Boyd Stadium hosting the Raiders should relocation plans be approved by league owners and Oakland fans protest with their wallets.
Like a bolt of lightning from the football heavens, the NFL is toast in San Diego after more than five decades following Thursday’s somewhat shocking announcement that the Chargers’ franchise was moving to Los Angeles.
After a playful back-and-forth over an unauthorized lyric in a fortune cookie, The Killers eventually asked Panda Express to make a donation to children’s charity Serving Our Kids Foundation, which helps feed homeless and at-risk youth in Clark County.
Foothill junior defensive back Jared Ables was named to the U.S. national team for the International Bowl, USA Football announced Wednesday.
Shortly before the rain fell on Thursday, the click of an officer’s cuffs and slam of a police car’s door marked an end to a workers’ protest at a Carl’s Jr. restaurant in Las Vegas.
Allison Gardner, 17, was born with spinal muscular atrophy. Today, Make-A-Wish Southern Nevada formally revealed her long-awaited bathroom makeover, including a custom tub.