The Federal Trade Commission gave Penn National Gaming’s $2.8 billion acquisition of Las Vegas-based Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. its approval Monday. On Tuesday, the Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously recommended approval of the deal.
With Obama as president, the Democrat Party was decimated in races across this country.
Chicago Cubs infielder Addison Russell has accepted a 40-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball’s domestic violence policy. The league had been investigating domestic violence allegations against Russell made by his ex-wife, Melisa Reidy.
Now that just about all of the area’s football teams have started league play, it’s time to take a look at the top players, teams and games of the season thus far.
The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ruled Wednesday that the lawsuits do not contain “sufficiently numerous” or “complex common questions” to justify consolidation.
Washington Capitals forward Tom Wilson has been suspended 20 games by the NHL for a blindside hit to the head of an opponent during a preseason game. Wilson’s punishment was announced just hours before the Stanley Cup champion Capitals were to raise their banner and open their title defense at home against Boston.
The Las Vegas market’s “resurgence” creates “a tremendous opportunity for JCJ,” President Peter Stevens said in the news release.
Las Vegas police released body camera footage Wednesday that for the first time takes viewers inside a Mandalay Bay security control room shortly after the Route 91 Harvest festival attack.
Las Vegas Review-Journal staffers make their picks for Week 8 of the high school football season.
Buck Showalter has been fired as manager of the Orioles, who made three playoff appearances under his guidance but this year staggered through the worst season since the team moved to Baltimore in 1954.
Astronomers may have found the first moon outside our solar system, a gas behemoth the size of Neptune.
Max Pacioretty and Paul Stastny should anchor a second line that will have to be better defensively for the Golden Knights to reach their ultimate goal.
Gov. Brian Sandoval has asked the U.S. Department of Energy to reconsider its proposal to store up to a ton of weapons-grade plutonium at the Nevada National Security Site located 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
The restaurant, Big Chicken, is expected to open near the intersection of Paradise Road and Harmon Avenue on Oct. 23, according to a statement Wednesday.
A Los Angeles real estate firm picked up two more apartment complexes in the Las Vegas Valley, bringing its local holdings to more than 3,200 units.
The $175,000 project has a deadline of the end of next August, but officials expect the structures to be complete earlier than that, city spokeswoman Kathleen Richards said.
Police are investigating allegations that a 17-year-old cheerleader distributed marijuana-laced brownies at her southwestern Michigan high school in an effort to be voted homecoming queen.
The Department of Justice funds will be used primarily to train school personnel and students on school safety and develop school assessment systems, crisis intervention teams and technology for anonymous reporting tools.
A government study has found that 1 in 3 U.S. adults eat fast food on any given day. That’s about 85 million people.
Jimmy Kimmel this morning unspooled plans for an 8,000-square-foot club, two-story venue with a variable capacity up to 300, open seven nights per week.
After international soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo denied a woman’s Las Vegas rape accusations against him in a tweet Wednesday, her attorney said she was “determined to follow through” with a lawsuit.
Cincinnati catcher Tucker Barnhart could hear the difference at Great American Ball Park, one of six major league stadiums that set record lows for attendance this year.
Traffic on Pecos Road was backed up in the central valley while police investigated a crash.
A male ninth-grade student at Henderson’s Basic High School was arrested Monday after bringing a BB gun onto campus,school police said.
On Oct. 12-13, members of Rancho High School’s Class of 1958 will gather for their 60th reunion. They’re inviting members of Rancho’s classes of 1957 and 1959 to join in.
The Golden Knights’ top line features three divergent personalities from two countries with one view on how to play. Fast.
Geoff Emerick, who worked as recording engineer for the Beatles for many years and played an important role in the creation of “Revolver,” ”Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and other albums has died. He was 72.
The remnants of Tropical Storm Rosa missed the Las Vegas Valley, but storm systems passing over Southern Nevada will keep temperatures cool.