The El Loco roller coaster at the Circus Circus Adventuredome was in motion when a woman fell from the ride, a spokesman for Clark County said Wednesday.
Jeanette Jones, founder of a research firm and a librarian with Paseo Verde Library, has simple motivation for teaching a “Tackling Fake News” class. “If not us, then who?” she said, adding that libraries are in the business of disseminating trustworthy information to the public.
Milan Norton of the Summerlin area has found her passion playing golf, she says. The 9-year-old started playing three years ago after watching her sister and father from the golf cart as they practiced.
A woman who pleaded guilty to pushing her 16-year-old friend from a bridge at a popular swimming area near Vancouver has been sentenced to two days in jail and 38 days on a county work crew.
Anglers are catching smallmouth bass in the 2- to 3-pound range in Cottonwood Basin at Lake Mohave. Smallies in the 5-pound class are growing increasingly common at tournament weigh-ins.
Zander Clinton’s documentary opens to smooth homemade beats and an image of the classic “Welcome To Fabulous Las Vegas” sign. Zander said he chose to build a documentary about the Second Amendment and gun violence because “October 1 was such a big thing here. I was interested in how it happened … it was the biggest mass shooting in history; it made me think there was more to look into.”
Lucia Taylor of the Summerlin area remembers jumping trains during her teen years in Pisa, Italy — a small town near Tuscany that bordered the ocean.
A Trump administration proposal to open Yucca Mountain and other interim sites for nuclear waste storage got a friendly reception Wednesday from key Senate lawmakers.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A man convicted on state murder charges in a deadly car attack at a white nationalist rally in Virginia pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal hate crime charges in a case that stirred racial tensions across the country.
Before Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina churned out “Your Mama Don’t Dance,” the 71-year-old Loggins remembers nearly being tugged away from rock ‘n’ roll.
Politicians, gamblers, lawyers, judges and two Civil War veterans — one Union, one Confederate — share the large, flat, grassy space in one of Clark County’s oldest cemeteries.
Here are the latest Nevada Preps Class 4A and 3A baseball and softball rankings.
Handicapper Paul Stone leads the contest after going 8-3-1 ATS in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Here are the latest Nevada Preps Class 4A and 3A baseball rankings.
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak on Tuesday named Jacqueline Bluth, 37, a Las Vegas prosecutor with a dozen years in the Clark County district attorney’s office, to a vacant seat on the District Court in Las Vegas.
Here are the latest Nevada Preps Class 4A and 3A softball rankings.
One person has been taken into custody in connection with a “potential threat” made against a charter school in the south Las Vegas Valley.
BARRON, Wis. — A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty Wednesday to kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents, in a move that spares the girl held captive in a remote cabin for three months from the possible trauma of having to testify at his trial.
British Prime Minister Theresa May told Conservative lawmakers Wednesday that she will step down once the U.K.’s exit from the European Union is delivered — a dramatic concession meant to bring enough of her colleagues on board to push her deal over the line.
Breakdancing and three other sports have made the next move toward becoming medal events at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Facebook is extending its ban on hate speech to prohibit the promotion and support of white nationalism and white separatism.
The Southern Nevada Health District tested 187 students or employees at Durango High School after a person at the school was diagnosed with active tuberculosis in early March but got no positive results for the disease.
The Golden Knights will try to clinch a playoff berth Wednesday when they meet the Colorado Avalanche at Pepsi Center.
Multiple road projects are set to impact motorists’ commutes around Southern Nevada over the next couple of weeks.
A former nurse charged with sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman who later gave birth at a long-term care facility in Phoenix will appeal a court order requiring a test to determine if he has HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases.
The long-awaited adjudicatory hearing to determine the suitability of Wynn Resorts Ltd. to operate a $2.6 billion casino in Everett, Massachusetts, is scheduled next week in Boston.
South Dakota State’s T.J. Otzelberger has been hired as the UNLV men’s basketball coach. He went 70-33 in three seasons with the Jackrabbits, making the NCAA Tournament in his first two years and the NIT this season.
A Texas retailer of now-banned bump stocks has transferred about 60,000 of the gun-related items to the federal government to be destroyed.
Former Raiders wide receiver Jordy Nelson is retiring from the NFL, a former teammate announced Wednesday, ending the possibility he could return to the club.