“Drowning doesn’t look like anything. It’s silent,” Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Larry Hadfield told me this week. “When someone drowns, they’re taking in water. There’s no screaming.”
The Amazing Las Vegas Comic Con has returned to the Las Vegas Convention Center for a weekend packed with pop culture fun.
Bishop Gorman product Vashti Cunningham cleared 6 feet, 6 1/4 inches to place first in the high jump at the USATF Outdoor Championships in Sacramento, California.
Cody Glass, the first player selected by the Las Vegas expansion franchise in the NHL Entry Draft is an 18-year-old from Winnipeg, Manitoba, a Canadian center who grew up with next to nothing.
A man died Friday evening after crashing his motorcycle into a car in the intersection of West Flamingo Road and South El Capitan Way in the west Las Vegas Valley.
Rounds 2 through 7 of the NHL Entry Draft will take place Saturday in Chicago. The Golden Knights have 10 picks, including three in the second round.
Republicans are trying to fulfill a campaign promise, but they also seem to be trying to find $600 billion to hand out in tax cuts to the wealthiest while cutting $834 billion from Medicaid, a lifeline for 33 million children, 10 million disabled and 6 million seniors.
You didn’t vote, but have plenty of complaints about how your government is serving you. Blame only yourself.
The government could save up to $1 trillion over a decade by aggressively cutting information technology costs, improving IT systems, maximizing government buying power, and rooting out fraud across federal agencies.
In the Backstreet Boys’ swift-selling Strip residency, the guys have almost totally sold out Axis theater for shows this weekend — even as the theater has been opened to its full 6,200-seat capacity.
A breakdown of the fights on the main card of Bellator: New York on Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York, with picks from the Review-Journal’s Adam Hill and Heidi Fang.
The resignations of two members of the State Public Charter School Authority Board — Adam Johnson and Jacob Snow — were announced at the end of a meeting Friday.
A Cessna plane carrying two passengers flipped while landing at Henderson Executive Airport Friday afternoon, McCarran International Airport spokeswoman Christine Crews said.
Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Jeff Voll is among the 23 reputed Vagos motorcycle gang members who were arrested on racketeering charges last week.
Aramazd Andressian Sr., 35, is being held at the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Bail was set at $10 million.
Clark County School District officials last year trumpeted an innovative new salary structure, then rolled back key parts of it. The teachers union cried foul and filed an unfair labor complaint with the state of Nevada.
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller made news this morning when he came out against the Republican health care reform bill being debated in the Senate, saying it would hurt millions in America and thousands in Nevada who are newly eligible for Medicaid.
The power of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s veto pen now extends to Washington, D.C.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys rested their cases on Friday in the double murder trial of Thomas Randolph. Should jurors convict 62-year-old Randolph of first-degree murder, the panel is expected to decide his punishment. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
Named the “World’s Best Party Room” by HGTV and featured on the network’s “Million Dollar Rooms,” Moon Crest Estate in MacDonald Highlands features a 6,300-square-foot, $4 million mega entertainment floor.
A wildfire menacing a southern Utah ski town for nearly a week flared again, doubling in size for the second night in a row and torching more homes after residents fled the flames, officials said Friday.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has been awarded a $500,000 grant to fight terrorist recruitment and radicalization, Rep. Dina Titus announced Friday.
The Golden Knights, looking for a scoring center with their first selection as a franchise in the NHL Entry Draft, had the chance to take the player some hockey insiders say could be one of the best of this draft.
Gov. Brian Sandoval headed a list of dignitaries that on Friday welcomed Australian slot-machine manufacturer Aristocrat Technologies Inc. to Summerlin where the company is building a 180,000 square-foot Las Vegas campus.
The district must be willing to more quickly reform, be more transparent, and undergo a fundamental cultural shift to regain trust and credibility. Otherwise the community will take matters into its own hands.
No. 1 overall pick Markelle Fultz and the Philadelphia 76ers’ NBA summer league squad will meet the Golden State Warriors at 7:30 p.m. July 8 at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The Alon casino project is stuck on the drawing board — its main backer bailed several months ago, and the land is up for sale.
Recreational marijuana will soon be legal in Nevada, but travelers might not be able to light up at the airport.
A video of a young Mormon girl revealing to her congregation that she is lesbian before her microphone is turned off by local church leaders is sparking a new round of discussions about how the religion handles LGBT issues.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
Fiery wrong-way crash kills 2 on 215 Beltway in northwest Las Vegas
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school
Mystery deepens: Monolith outside Vegas may have been in desert for years
Woman arrested after police say she climbed on Reno craps table, threw chips at people