Las Vegas gambler Walters gets 5 years in prison, $10M fine

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.

Neighbor recalls scene after Las Vegas murder-suicide

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.

Businesses cashing in on August’s total solar eclipse

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.

Baby Charlie should go to hospice, judge says

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.

Natural wonders in Sierra ‘secret garden’ to open after century

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.

Penn National Gaming contemplates further investments in Tropicana

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.

Prominent marijuana magazine ‘High Times’ to go public

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.

 
Ohio fair ride inspected, signed off on hours before malfunction

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 visitor volume down in June

Southern Nevada tourism leaders saw things in June that they rarely see in their tourism statistics — negative percentages.

Suspected bank robber, strips naked, tosses money in Florida

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.

Small plane crashes on I-15 near Salt Lake; 4 killed

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.

Notes: Star coaches abound in first day of AAU 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.

 
Quincy Jones awarded $9.4M from Michael Jackson’s estate

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.

 
Ohio State Fair goes on without rides after deadly accident

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.

 
Firefighters take control, Gardnerville evacuations called off

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.

 
California inmates video jail break, life on the run

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.

Jordan Morris’ dramatic late goal lifts US to Gold Cup title

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.