Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos briefly became the world’s richest man Thursday in Forbes magazine’s tracking of wealth, as stock in his e-commerce company hit an all-time high.
Are The Who the best rock and roll band of all time? It’s highly debatable, but here are a few arguments in their favor.
An AAU basketball game at Cashman Center was nearly canceled Wednesday night due to fire-code concerns as an overflow crowd jammed court 5 to watch LaVar Ball’s Big Baller Brand face SC Supreme.
Las Vegas sports gambler Billy Walters was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison, following his April conviction in one of the highest profile U.S. insider trading trials in years.
A judge denied Tyler Knaub’s request for joint custody of his son two weeks before Knaub stabbed the 4-year-old to death and killed himself, records show.
Millions of eyes will be fixed on the sky when a total solar eclipse crosses the U.S. in August, and it’s likely many of them will be safely behind the special glasses churned out by a Tennessee company.
A British judge has ordered that critically ill infant Charlie Gard should be moved from a hospital to a hospice, where he will “inevitably” die within a short time.
Pink and yellow wildflowers burst from a lush bed of grass hidden from public view for more than a century. Towering trees and snow-capped mountains encircle the wild meadow, beckoning visitors to a largely untouched piece of California’s Sierra Nevada.
On quarterly earnings call, CEO says executive team will assess performance of new Robert Irvine restaurant and an Asian eatery to open later this year before deciding whether to continue spending on Las Vegas Strip resort.
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William Alfredo Chafoya, 37, and Ashley Elizabeth Olivetti, 31, who was shot once in the arm, are both hospitalized in stable condition following Monday incident in North Las Vegas.
The publisher of marijuana enthusiast magazine “High Times” plans to take the company public, High Times Holding Corp announced Thursday, as an increasing number of U.S. states legalize the drug.
Inspectors repeatedly looked over a thrill ride while it was assembled at the Ohio State Fair and signed off on it hours before it flew apart in a deadly accident that flung passengers into the ground, according to authorities and records released Thursday.
Southern Nevada tourism leaders saw things in June that they rarely see in their tourism statistics — negative percentages.
Threat of thunderstorms returns to the forecast on Sunday and Monday, National Weather Service says.
Authorities in Florida say they arrested a man who robbed a bank, stripped naked and ran down the street throwing stolen money — all because he woke up Tuesday and wanted to become a comedian.
Residents of the Grand Legacy Community Association are seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent new development of the closed Legacy Golf Club in Henderson.
SALT LAKE CITY — A small plane crashed on a Utah highway Wednesday, killing two couples heading for a vacation but narrowly missing cars when it barreled across the lanes through a gap in traffic.
Three of Nevada’s top six players in the class of 2018 headline the Vegas Elite team at the Fab 48 tournament
Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, Kentucky’s John Calipari, Arizona’s Sean Miller and Villanova’s Jay Wright were among the head coaches in attendance at the three AAU tournaments in the valley Wednesday.
Justin Bieber left a photographer with minor injuries after police in California say the singer accidentally hit the man with his pickup.
LOS ANGELES — A jury on Wednesday found that Michael Jackson’s estate owes Quincy Jones $9.4 million in royalties and production fees from “Billie Jean,” ”Thriller” and more of the superstar’s biggest hits.
One firefighter was slightly injured while battling the blaze early Thursday at a carpet recycling business.
The state fair, where one person was killed and seven others were injured when an “aggressive thrill” ride broke apart, will be open Thursday, officials said, but the rides won’t be running until they all are determined to be safe.
Three hundred firefighters got the upper hand on a wildland blaze that threatened 400 homes near Gardnerville south of Reno while hundreds of other crew members continued to battle a pair of wildfires threatening dozens of homes and ranches Wednesday in the northwest corner of the state near the Idaho line south of Denio.
Inmates who broke out of the maximum-security wing of a Southern California jail last year did just that with a smuggled cellphone and through an attorney released it to the public Wednesday, complete with glossy voiceover from one of the convicts.
Former Stanford star Jordan Morris scored a tiebreaking goal in the 88th minute, and the United States beat Jamaica 2-1 on Wednesday night for its sixth Gold Cup title and first since 2013.