Investigators will be looking into why a packed Long Island Rail road commuter train was traveling erratically at twice the speed limit when it crashed at a rail terminal, injuring more than 100 people.
Noted Indian character actor Om Puri has died in the western city of Mumbai. He was 66.
Las Vegas police are investigating a shooting in east Las Vegas Thursday morning.
The shooting happened about 9:40 p.m. in an alley behind the 1100 block of Jones. One suspect was shot and taken to University Medical Center’s trauma unit in an unknown condition.
St. Petersburg was once known as the mecca of “the newly wed and the nearly dead,” but now that hipsters have moved in with their craft beer, kombucha and indie markets, few relics of the past survive.
A joint session of Congress is set to count the Electoral College votes on Friday, a traditional ending to a most unconventional presidential election.
Less than two decades ago, e-sports consisted of a few dozen elite gamers gathering in warehouses to compete for modest-at-best prizes. Today, e-sports has climbed out of basements and warehouses and onto major cable networks and is on the verge of becoming a $1 billion industry.
UNLV hired Collegiate Sports Associates to conduct its search for an athletic director. Also, Nancy Rapoport, special counsel to UNLV president Len Jessup, will serve as chairwoman of the search committee.
Jon Saraceno will cover the Oakland Raiders’ potential move to Las Vegas and the boxing scene for the R-J.
Las Vegas teenager Riley Herbst is excited about the development opportunity with Joe Gibbs Racing, one of NASCAR’s top teams.
Sam Lovullo, who as producer and co-creator of “Hee Haw” brought country music and homestyle humor to millions of American homes, has died at age 88, his publicists said Thursday.
When you have horses of equal ability coming down the stretch side by side, then the jockey’s role is everything.
Vice President Joe Biden told President-elect Donald Trump Thursday to “grow up.” The vice president told “PBS NewsHour” in an interview that it’s time for Trump “to be an adult.”
Elijah Kothe had 22 points, nine rebounds and two blocked shots to lead ninth-ranked Faith Lutheran to a 67-59 home win over No. 7 Cimarron-Memorial.
Las Vegas and North Las Vegas city councils this week approved a .5-percentage point hotel room tax hike to help fund a $1.4 billion expansion of the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Henderson council OK’d an ordinance for that increase as well as a half-percentage point tax hike to help pay for a new football stadium.
The cars of tomorrow will be connected, electric and driverless. This is where cars are heading, speakers at CES 2017 said on Thursday, and the future isn’t that far away.
James Camp scored on a layup with six seconds remaining Thursday to give Palo Verde’s boys basketball team a 56-55 victory over host Arbor View.
Troy Terry scored the winning goal in the shootout, and goaltender Tyler Parsons blanked Canada in the shootout as the U.S. won the World Junior Hockey Championship with a 5-4 victory over Canada.
At SeaQuest, learning directly means up close and personal, whether it’s an iguana in your palm, a parakeet perched on your arm — or you in a tank, snorkeling with stingrays.
Tiarra Del Rosario completed 12 of 17 passes for 153 yards and two touchdowns Thursday as host Cimarron-Memorial’s flag football team edged top-ranked Shadow Ridge, 18-13.
Justice Ethridge scored 15 points Thursday to lead the Centennial girls basketball team to an easy 65-21 home win over Legacy. It was Centennial coach Karen Weitz’s 600th career win.
Plans to provide more trip planning services, a ranking system that puts guests and homeowners on their best behavior and a high adoption rate among seniors means Airbnb believes it can only keep growing.
Not long after Donald Trump won the presidency, an online poster said he’d treat the new chief executive with the same deference and respect that greeted President Obama after his election.
The Metropolitan Police Department investigated more homicides in 2016 than in any other year since at least 1990.
Tiberti Construction officials are headed to court next week in their fight against Bishop Gorman Development Corp. to collect $28.7 million an arbitrator awarded the company for unpaid work.
The CIA has identified Russian officials who fed material hacked from the Democratic National Committee and party leaders to WikiLeaks at the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin through third parties, according to a new U.S. intelligence report, senior U.S. officials said on Thursday.
The Clark County coroner’s office ruled Thursday that a man’s manner of death as natural after initial police reports claimed his death was suspicious.