Mississippi lawmakers voted Sunday to surrender the Confederate battle emblem from their state flag, triggering raucous applause and cheers more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War.
The Mahogany Fire started as a 10-acre brush fire Sunday afternoon. The fire forced “hard closures” on Deer Creek, Kyle Canyon and Lee Canyon roads for at least 72 hours, NHP said.
Raiders owner Mark Davis voiced his displeasure with the NFL’s vote last week to tarp off the first eight rows of stadiums and sell the space for advertising.
On Sunday, the National Weather Service reported a large cloud of dust rolling into town from the Jean Dry Lake bed, obscuring parts of the mountains that ring the valley.
As the coronavirus ravages state budgets, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto plans to push for the Senate to take up a House bill to provide local governments with federal assistance.
The counties under the mandatory bar closure order include Los Angeles, Fresno, San Joaquin, Kings, Kern, Imperial and Tulare counties.
A bettor at the Bellagio sportsbook turned $250 into $137,107.38 on Sunday after hitting a 10-team parlay on Korean and Chinese baseball.
A William Hill bettor in Nevada lost a $100,000 wager Saturday on Dan Hooker (+200) over Dustin Poirier in the main event of UFC on ESPN 12 in Las Vegas.
Their 1969 classic “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” was a popular song for his events.
A fiery Sunday morning crash in Summerlin sent a motorcyclist to the hospital with moderate injuries, Las Vegas police said. A midsize SUV and motorcycle crashed about 10:30 a.m.
The Poeville Fire northwest of Reno has burned nearly 5½ square miles of grass and brush as of Sunday, with about 400 people remaining evacuated.
The video appeared to have been taken at The Villages, a Florida retirement community.
Health officials reported an additional 821 positive COVID-19 cases in the state on Sunday, a day after a delay in reporting led to a massive increase.
The world surpassed two sobering coronavirus milestones Sunday — 500,000 confirmed deaths, 10 million confirmed cases — and hit another high mark for daily new infections as governments that attempted reopenings continued to backtrack and warn that worse news could be yet to come.
The cause of the fire is undetermined and remains under investigation. Investigators said that fireworks cannot be ruled out.
Four sportsbooks posted spreads and totals on the first three days of the NBA restart, and the Westgate put a line on the reported MLB opener.
American intelligence officials concluded months ago that Russian officials offered rewards for successful attacks on American service-members last year.
The historic hotel will use an experienced new sales executive at the helm, and a partnership with a global group sales organization in place to grow the business.
After dozens of Las Vegas trade shows and conventions had to be postponed or canceled because of COVID-19, organizers have started offering virtual events in their place.
Red shirts filled the grass behind the Clark County Government Center on Saturday evening as a group of more than 100 people came together in solidarity honoring the Stonewall Riots and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Authorities were investigating a fatal shooting Saturday night at a park in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, where demonstrators had gathered to protest the death of Breonna Taylor.
North Las Vegas police are investigating after a couple was found deceased in their home.
Twenty years ago, Nevadans voted for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage; this year, they will have the opportunity to undo that change.
The angry and the demonstrating are loud and visible; their opponents are angry and quiet.
The empty seats at President Donald Trump’s Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally show that his supporters aren’t willing to put themselves at risk to attend a rally during a pandemic.
The Shoshone suffer without relief or acknowledgement of our silent sacrifice.
Las Vegans already know about a system that fails to hold officers accountable for bad acts.
It’d be easier to take Gov. Steve Sisolak’s mask mandate seriously if he hadn’t spent the last month flattering protesters who violated the limits he imposed on group gatherings.
