Pinnacle Entertainment announced plans Monday to raise up to $800 million in new debt to help the company complete its buyout of regional gaming rival Ameristar Casinos.
At first glance, the Ultimate Fighting Championship might be a surprising choice to be honored by a gay and lesbian group.
Bonanza High School’s baseball team surprised many by advancing to the Division I state tournament this year.
Regardless of how many balls were flying out during the All-Star Home Run Derby on Monday night, Citi Field typically is a difficult place to score runs.
Sen. Harry Reid isn’t asking for anything unreasonable.
The U.S. Senate’s filibuster rules should have been nuked nearly a decade ago.
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
A Trout Canyon resident’s name was misspelled in Sunday’s story about wildfire refugees. The correct spelling is Don Kubinski.
Covered in more than a week’s worth of dirt and soot, firefighter Eric Levy took a moment to relax.
Elijah Kelly thought he was having an asthma attack, but the problem was his heart.
After 25 years on the bench, District Court Judge Valorie Vega to step aside
Yoenis Cespedes has won baseball’s Home Run Derby, becoming the first player left out of the All-Star game to take home the crown.
The Oakland Athletics slugger beat Bryce Harper 9-8 in the final round Monday night at reconfigured Citi Field, hitting the decisive drive with five swings to spare.
How do you get architecture and engineering students to work together before graduation?
Las Vegas Sands Corp. could delay development of a planned $22 billion resort complex in Spain unless the government lifts a ban on smoking inside casinos, a wire service reported.
SPARKS — Police say a Sparks resident who was trying to be a Good Samaritan ended up the victim of an armed robbery.
Clark County public employee paychecks could start inching up toward pre-recession levels.
Former UNLV sports information director, Tommy Sheppard, is helping rebuild a Washington Wizards organization that has become a national laughing-stock in the NBA and get it back to the playoffs.
Twinkies, the legendary snack cakes, roared back from obscurity Monday like a celebrity out of rehab, a brand-new slogan in tow, a slim new look to show off, and a battery of baggage in its past.
Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, the notoriously brutal leader of the feared Zetas drug cartel, has been captured in the first major blow against an organized crime leader by a Mexican administration struggling to drive down persistently high levels of violence, a U.S. federal official confirmed.
Defense attorneys plan to present evidence questioning the character of Nevada’s chief insurance examiner, who was killed April 2 at his Carson City apartment.
Two bounty hunters impersonated police officers and robbed two exotic dancers while trying to apprehend a pimp on Friday, Las Vegas police said.
The U.S. Air Force said Monday many of its combat air forces would start flying again —as well as the Thunderbirds demonstration team at Nellis Air Force Base — after being grounded since April because of budget cuts.
A man died Sunday after being struck by three vehicles on the U.S. Highway 95 near Lake Mead Boulevard.
Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday called the killing of Trayvon Martin a “tragic, unnecessary shooting,” and said the Justice Department will follow “the facts and the law” as it reviews evidence to see whether federal criminal charges are warranted.
The National Transportation and Safety Board released a preliminary report Monday into the June 23 airplane crash a mile from the Boulder City airport runway that left two Nevada Army National Guardsmen dead.
This summer Startalk is sponsoring a free Chinese language daycamp for children 11 to 17 at the Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Drive. Joseph House, a cultural specialist at the center, said the goal is to expose kids to the Chinese language through calligraphy, Chinese crafts, lion dancing and juggling.
Zachary Battista survived his Fremont Street experience — barely. The 19-year-old’s heart stopped twice and he needed about 15 pints of blood after he was stabbed in the chest by a homeless man early Sunday morning at Fremont Street and 4th Street, the center of downtown’s Las Vegas bustling entertainment district.
The cause of “Glee” actor Cory Monteith’s death remained unclear Monday, and authorities in Canada said it could take several days before toxicology test results are in.
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