5 teams to watch at Las Vegas NBA Summer League

Wondering why to attend the NBA Summer League at the Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion? The Review-Journal offers tips on which teams to watch.

Consulting contract awarded for Garnet interchange project

A $4.3 million consulting contract was approved Thursday for a project that calls for widening U.S. Highway 93 as a way to accommodate Faraday Future, Hyperloop and other companies anticipated to move into the Apex Industrial Park in North Las Vegas.

5 games to watch at Las Vegas NBA Summer League

Wondering why to attend the NBA Summer League at the Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion? The Review-Journal offers tips on which games to watch.

TPC Summerlin member Danielle Kang wins first LPGA Tour major

This past Sunday, Kang finished at 13 under and won the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. The win doubled as her first career LPGA Tour victory and first major championship.

Comments pour in about review of national monuments in Nevada

More than 1.1 million comments have been received on the Trump administration’s review and possible rollback of national monuments in Nevada and elsewhere as the public feedback period draws to a close.

 
UFC 213 media day staredowns — VIDEO

Several fighters squared off Thursday at UFC 213 media day ahead of their Saturday bouts.

NBA Summer League in Las Vegas starts Friday

The NBA Summer League begins Friday at the Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion. The first day will be highlighted by a game between the Los Angeles Lakers and first-round draft pick Lonzo Ball against the Los Angeles Clippers.

Creech Air Force Base ‘hunters’ welcome new commander

“The stakes are high and there is no trophy for second place,” Col. Julian “Ghost” Cheater, new leader of the 432nd Expeditionary Wing, says at change-of-command ceremony.

 
Trump likens terrorism fight to Poland’s resistance to Nazis

An enthusiastic Polish crowd chanted President Donald Trump’s name and “USA USA USA” as the American president gave a valentine of a speech in Warsaw’s Krasinski Square by a memorial to the 1944 Polish Uprising.

28 inmates killed in Mexican prison fight

At least 28 inmates were killed in a brutal prison fight on Thursday in the Mexican Pacific resort of Acapulco, in one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the country’s troubled penal system in recent years.

 
Hundreds hunt bargains at Trump Taj Mahal liquidation sale

For some, it was The Art of the Steal. Hundreds of people swarmed the lobby of Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal casino on Thursday, hoping to score big.

Limited bill needed if GOP health care repeal fails, McConnell says

A bill focused on buttressing the nation’s insurance marketplaces will be needed if the full-fledged Republican effort to repeal much of President Barack Obama’s health care law fails, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday.

Third ‘Spider-Man’ attempt delivers for Peter Parker fans

With “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” fans finally have a movie centered on a Peter Parker (Tom Holland) who feels like the awkward teenage hero they grew to love in the comics.

Henderson teenage racer Jason Reichert signs marketing deal

Budding open-wheel racer Jason Reichert, 17, signs with the Pegasus Marketing Group, which over the years has partnered with Indy 500 stars such as Mario and Michael Andretti.

Bill Cosby to be retried on sex assault charges in November

Entertainer Bill Cosby will be retried on charges of sexually assaulting a former employee of his alma mater in November, five months after his first trial on those charges ended in a hung jury, a Pennsylvania judge ruled Thursday.

Mohave County coroner IDs 2 men who drowned Monday

Two 38-year-old men drowned in Mohave County on Monday in separate, unrelated incidents, the Mohave County coroner’s office said Thursday.

Blondie blossoms anew on collaborative new album ‘Pollinator’

Forty-three years into a career that’s spanned the birth of punk rock, hip-hop, new wave and myriad strains of electronic dance music, the band has done something new, recruiting a slew of collaborators to write the bulk of its new record.