For about three months, officials said, James Thatcher, 28, with the help of his girlfriend and their toddler’s nanny, had kept his 52-year-old mother and 34-year-old brother locked away and tied to a blood-stained mattress inside a bedroom in his Pahrump apartment, the secured window taunting the possibility of escape.
With full stomach’s in tow, shoppers are starting to head to their favorite stores throughout the Las Vegas Valley in hopes of finding the best Black Friday deals.
Only one cooking-related fire was reported in Las Vegas on Thanksgiving Day, according to the Las Vegas Fire Department.
Kyle Busch had a season to remember in 2018 before suffering a day to forget, finishing fourth among the four drivers eligibile to win a one-race showdown for the NASCAR championship.
Here are five things you need to know about the Raiders’ Week 12 opponent.
Go searching for Christmas specials on your own, and you could disappear down a Yuletide rabbit hole and not emerge until it’s time to celebrate “Rudolph’s Shiny New Year.”
Former UNLV interim coach Todd Simon has Southern Utah off to a 3-0 start. The Thunderbirds play UNLV at 7 p.m. Friday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Attendance has sagged since the UNLV-UNR game was moved to Thanksgiving weekend in 2016. Rebels coach Tony Sanchez likes the idea of playing the game on Nevada Day or that weekend.
The Raiders hurt their chances of landing the top pick in April’s draft last week by defeating the Cardinals.
If you buy the Turner Sports-produced pay-per-view telecast of the Tiger Woods vs. Phil Mickelson $9 million winner-take-all match at Shadow Creek, Mickelson says you can expect unprecedented coverage elements and technology, interactivity, smack talk and more.
Patty Rough lost her Paradise home and most of her belongings in the Camp Fire, and she had no place to cook a family meal on Thanksgiving.
A giant, plant-eating creature with a beak-like mouth and reptilian features may have roamed the Earth during the late Triassic period more than 200 million years ago, scientists said Thursday.
Ray Chavez, the oldest U.S. military survivor of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor that plunged the United States into World War II, died Wednesday. He was 106.
A former office manager who had been unemployed for eight months, Rose Porter was among 85 people hired through J.C. Penney’s annual job fair in October, and one of 7,000 seasonal workers across multiple retailers this season in Nevada, according to Retail Association of Nevada estimates.
The Nevada governor’s race was one of the most watched in the country this year, but Democratic candidate Steve Sisolak’s focus was elsewhere election night.
After more than 125 performances in “The Nutcracker” in Providence, a 19-year-old Yorkshire Terrier named Archie is leaving the stage.
This weekend marks the last Sunday of the month, which means Jazz Session Sundays returns to Downtown Container Park.
A 26-year-old man accused of firing into a Milwaukee home and killing a 13-year-old girl in her living room may have been planning to shoot his ex-girlfriend, prosecutors allege in a complaint filed Wednesday.
A UNLV geology professor recently identified fossilized tracks from a primitive reptile on a fallen slab of rock along one of Grand Canyon National Park’s best-known trails.
A man was critically injured Thanksgiving Day morning after a suspected DUI driver with a history of impaired driving crashedhead-on into his vehicle, Las Vegas police said.
Handicapper Doug Fitz (Systemplays.com), who is in second place with a 31-22-2 record against the spread, picked the Detroit Lions (+3) over the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins (+7) over the Dallas Cowboys in Thanksgiving Day games.
President Donald Trump made a Thanksgiving Day threat to close the U.S. border with Mexico for an undisclosed period of time if his administration determines that its southern ally has lost “control” on its side.
Snowcapped mountains are making a comeback.
When “Casino” hit theaters in 1995 — 23 years ago today — Las Vegas was growing fast.
President Donald Trump has delivered a Thanksgiving message to American service members on duty around the world, telling them by telephone, “Your courage truly inspires us.”
Frigid temperatures and blustery winds were no match for holiday cheer as giant character balloons took to the skies, and performers on floats and marching bands made their way through New York City’s streets on Thursday for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
The sport that for so long was a central source of producing revenue for UNLV athletics, which afforded the department a level of national relevancy, a brand Las Vegas prided itself on, is none of those things now.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa isn’t leaning so much anymore.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Mass shootings, hurricanes, fires — for many people across the nation, 2018 was a year of loss unlike any other. As the quintessentially American holiday of Thanksgiving approaches, some will abandon traditions or choose not to mark the holiday at all. Others will celebrate new friendships forged in the wake of tragedy.
Some residents of a Dallas apartment complex leaped from third-floor windows onto mattresses, and a woman dropped her baby to a bystander to escape the flames.
