In what a witness later called a “gunfight,” Trujillo-Soriano fired nine shots at officers, and the two officers a total of fired 34 rounds in return.
Mixed martial artist Ben Askren will defend his ONE Championship welterweight title against Nikolay Aleksakhin in the main event of a card in Manila, Philippines.
UNLV basketball coach Chris Beard met with Texas Tech officials Thursday to discuss the Red Raiders’ coaching vacancy after just six days at the helm of the Rebels’ program. UNLV athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy said a decision would be made Friday after UNLV officials and Beard meet.
A Reno wildlife sanctuary is working to take care of four orphaned black bear cubs.
In a move that caught most in the NHRA off guard, Leah Pritchett’s team closed shop doors this week, leaving the up-and-coming driver in the unemployment line.
Bob Baffert has won the Arkansas Derby twice with American Pharoah (2015) and Bodemeister (2012). Bodemeister ran second in the Kentucky Derby. American Pharoah won the Triple Crown last spring.
The NFL released its 17-week regular-season schedule Thursday night. Within an hour, with kickoff 147 days away, oddsmakers at the Westgate posted opening lines for Week 1.
Johnny Stanton and Kurt Palandech were both listed as the starting quarterback on UNLV’s post-spring, two-deep depth chart released Thursday, though second-year coach Tony Sanchez said Stanton has a slight edge in the competition.
The 51s bullpen, considered to be a strength of the team, has been taxed considerably, as the starters have turned in short outings in the first five games of the season.
Seth Lugo tossed six innings — the longest a Las Vegas 51s starter has gone all season — in a 6-2 victory over the Sacramento River Cats on Thursday at Cashman Field.
Michelle Booth, a Clark County School District spokeswoman, said there were elementary school students on the bus when it struck the 2-year-old boy, adding the other children were “not injured.”
Most believe UNLV basketball coach Chris Beard will take the Texas Tech job. Why wouldn’t he? Why shouldn’t he? No one could have seen this coming.
Robby Adair had 25 kills and 11 digs Thursday as the Bonanza boys volleyball team rallied for a 25-21, 15-25, 12-25, 25-23, 17-15 win at Arbor View.
Centennial made some miscues, gave up the lead, but never stoppedbattling and earned a 6-5, eight-inning road win over top-ranked Bishop Gorman.
Trevor Doyle scored on a wild pitch with one out in the top of the eighth inning Thursday to help the Cimarron-Memorial baseball team to a 2-1 win at Palo Verde.
First-time filings for unemployment benefits averaged 12,343 claims in the 12 months prior to March, the state Department of Employment, Trainingand Rehabilitation reported Tuesday. That’s the lowest average since mid-2007.
Bryce Henricksen went 3-for-3 with a double Thursday to help the Arbor View softball team to an 8-5 win over visiting Legacy.
A man was shot dead Thursday night near downtown Las Vegas. It happened about 6 p.m. near Eastern Avenue and Charleston Boulevard, and police said it may have been drug or gang related.
Deepening their increasingly bitter feud, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders aggressively challenged each other’s judgment to be president in Thursday night’s Democratic debate, sparring over Wall Street banks, how high to raise the minimum wage and gun control.
Construction crews broke ground Thursday on the first new campus to be built in the Clark County School District since 2010.
UNLV has a new dean at its College of Liberal Arts — and this week he made one of his priorities clear.
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A roach-infested apartment exploded in New Jersey after fumes from bug-killing spray built up and combusted, sending two adults and one child to a hospital.
Keanu Reeves, David Copperfield, Jesse Eisenberg and thousands of attendees at a private movie screening during CinemaCon on Thursday afternoon were in the auditorium at Caesars Palace when a suspicious item prompted an evacuation.
It’s difficult to imagine Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight Gian Villante being anything but a class clown back in his school days on Long Island.
LOS ANGELES — It’s safe to say longtime journalist and University of Southern California clinical professor Robert Scheer is no fan of Hillary Clinton.
The announcement of four more versions of “Avatar,” a refreshing Jeff Goldblum and peeks at upcoming comedies, action and shoot-‘em-ups closed out the CinemaCon convention on Thursday at Caesars Palace.
Faraday Future is striving to make its 3 million-square foot factory one that boasts energy-efficient and eco-friendly aspects.