James Baldwin III, a 27-year-old former minor league baseball player and a recent junior college defensive end and punter, has enrolled at UNLV where he will play football.
Park officials say an autopsy found that a man whose body was discovered being eaten by a bear in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in September died of accidental methamphetamine intoxication, not a bear attack.
A game that set a Super Bowl record for futility fell well short of setting a Nevada record for betting handle. The books won $10.7 million on the game, which was the lowest-scoring Super Bowl ever, for a 7.4 percent hold, or win percentage.
First, critics panned Maroon 5’s Super Bowl halftime performance. Then social media folks went full-on snark over Adam Levine’s throw pillow-like tank top design. Then he peeled off the busy brown shirt and the snark turned to outrage over his exposed nipples.
The light heavyweight star has competed just once per year in each of the last five years.
South Point bettor wins a 400-1 prop on a $250 bet when Greg Zuerlein misses 48-yard field goal with five seconds left in Rams’ 13-3 loss to Patriots in Super Bowl LIII.
As the sun broke through the gloomy overcast sky above Nevada’s Capitol building on Monday, legislators and lobbyists trudged through slush to kick off the 80th session of the Nevada Legislature before the governor shut down work for the day.
Progress is being made, but a lot of work remains to be done before April 9 when the Aviators will christen Las Vegas Ballpark.
UNLV athletic director Desiree Reed-Francois said Monday that a decision on basketball coach Marvin Menzies’ job status will be made after the season. He is in his third season at UNLV.
Nevada is appealing a federal judge’s ruling the stop the transfer of the nuclear material from South Carolina to a federal site north of Las Vegas.
A Big Island lawmaker has proposed incrementally increasing the minimum age to buy cigarettes, leading to a practical ban across Hawaii.
So this episode eggs — er, begs — the question, “Why bother with a Debbie Gibson tribute artist when you already have the real Debbie Gibson?”
New Jersey gambling regulators say its sportsbooks lost $4.6 million on $34.9 million in Super Bowl wagers, the first major sporting event for bettors since sports gambling was legalized in the state last year.
President Donald Trump says he’s nominating a Washington veteran with lobbying ties to U.S. energy companies to lead the Interior Department.
A man shot by Las Vegas police last week in Summerlin was later determined to be a suspect in two homicides, an official announced Monday.
A twin-engine plane that broke apart in flight and crashed set a home on fire in the Los Angeles suburb of Yorba Linda, killing five people and injuring two.
Thomas Patrick Glenn, 49, died at the scene on the 4700 block of Montebello Avenue from multiple stab wounds. The coroner’s office ruled the death a homicide.
A teacher at an Amargosa Valley boarding school recalled having encounters that left one student with bruising and another with a bloody nose, according to his arrest report.
UNLV has a demanding early stretch next season that will set the tone. The Rebels’ initial schedule was announced Monday.
Construction is underway on the Smith & Wollensky steakhouse in the Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian.
Liam Neeson has said he is ashamed to admit he had violent thoughts about killing a black person after learning that someone close to him had been raped.
Las Vegas Ballpark will have biggest videoboard in minor league baseball — and bigger than those at stadiums of five Major League Baseball teams — the Avaiators announced Monday.
Still stinging from having a berth in Super Bowl LIII ripped away from them, thousands belonging to Who Dat Nation joined together Sunday in a sign of solidarity and boycotted the game turning, off televisions and partying like it was Fat Tuesday.
Monday marked a historic day in Nevada as the first female-majority Legislature in the history of the U.S. was sworn into office to kick of the 80th meeting of the Legislature.
Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen has been assigned to Senate subcommittees that can advance legislation and provide oversight for federal programs with a direct impact on the state’s interests.
Metropolitan Police Department officers made 22 arrests at a DUI checkpoint on Super Bowl Sunday, its traffic bureau reported.
Firefighters say dozens of animals are dead following a fire at a central Florida animal sanctuary.
Bruno Mars has announced an 11-show run at the Park Theater on the Las Vegas Strip.
The Kansas City Chiefs have instituted a lifetime ban against a fan accused of flashing a laser at New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady during last month’s AFC championship game.
After nearly three months of testimony about a vast drug-smuggling conspiracy steeped in violence, a jury is due to begin deliberations Monday at the U.S. trial of the infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.