Every set of eyes inside The Smith Center for the Performing Arts for the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s “The Time Is Now” event Monday afternoon turned intently toward the center of the stage as Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier walked toward one another.
As a grand jury weighs possible criminal charges against the white police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown, Missouri’s governor has again activated the National Guard in an effort to avoid more unrest in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.
Follow the link for preseason information for Virgin Valley girls basketball.
The left-for-dead Rebels won the WAC regular-season title and conference tourney. They faced UC Irvine in the NCAA Tournament.
Nevadapreps.com has started posting team capsule previews for winter sports.
So far, so good — that was the word from insurance brokers and enrollment navigators on Monday, following the first weekend of open enrollment in Affordable Care Act health coverage through state and federal marketplaces.
The former owner of a North Las Vegas behavioral health services company was convicted Monday of child abuse and lewdness with his adopted son and acquitted of sexual assault charges relating to his foster son.
A Board of Regents ad hoc search committee late Monday recommended University of Arizona business school dean Len Jessup as UNLV’s next president to the full board.
So, you could spend New Year’s Eve with Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett, Maroon 5 or Drake on the Strip. Or, you could head downtown and rock out with a bunch of dudes dressed as Billy Idol, Eddie Van Halen, Robert Plant and whatshisname that sings for Duran Duran.
Health Plan of Nevada has reached a confidential settlement with all remaining clients who claimed they contracted hepatitis C at endoscopy clinics owned by Dr. Dipak Desai.
Le’Veon Bell rushed for a career-high 204 yards and a touchdown and visiting Pittsburgh erased an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter to defeat Tennessee, 27-24.
An analysis of Las Vegas newspapers’ endorsements and voting results shows the Review-Journal’s recommendations were accepted by voters in slightly more cases than the Las Vegas Sun’s, but that the R-J had far more partisan diversity than did the Sun.
A former captain in the Las Vegas Township Constable’s office was ordered to dig up “unflattering information” on four high-ranking Nevada Highway Patrol officials critical of Constable John Bonaventura’s leadership in an effort to discredit and embarrass them, according to the latest round of allegations to hit the constable’s office.
Silverado High School will host the Empty Bowl Project Wednesday evening, serving soup and bread in student-made bowls to raise money to feed the hungry.
A middle school math teacher is in jail after he allegedly threatened a student with a knife for speaking during a test.
Mass murderer Charles Manson plans to marry a 26-year-old woman who left her Midwestern home and spent the past nine years trying to help exonerate him.
Three people were sentenced in federal court Monday in a conspiracy to distribute the synthetic drugs known as “spice” and “bath salts.”
Marilyn Manson has announced a show at the House of Blues on Valentine’s Day. Hey, what better to say to “I love you” to that special someone than take him or her to see Manson and company roar through “Cupid Carries A Gun.”
A Boy Scout troop from Utah discovered a skull and other human skeletal remains while hiking in Arizona and the local sheriff’s office is investigating, authorities said on Monday.
Clark County has offered higher salary increases to staff affiliated with the Service Employees International Union in its latest offer in negotiations.
A parcel delivery company in Bangkok put three packages bound for the United States through a routine X-ray and made a startling discovery — inside were a variety of preserved human parts, including an infant’s head, a baby’s foot and an adult heart.
Clark County School Board members are backing away from their rebuke of a state investigation that alleged test cheating at Kelly Elementary School.
The Nevada Department of Corrections announced Monday that an inmate from Clark County who was serving multiple robbery and burglary sentences has died. Tracy Warren, 45, died on Sunday at the High Desert State Prison.
The Clark County Fire Department responded to a garage fire Monday evening in the southeast valley.
Want to free up some oven space on Thanksgiving? Here are five small appliances that can help you shift the burden.
The immensely talented but troubled Josh Gordon, who broke out as one of the NFL’s biggest playmakers last season, returned from his 10-game, league-imposed suspension for drug violations on Monday and was a welcomed sight to the Browns, still stinging from a 23-7 loss on Sunday to the Houston Texans.
The largest solar power plant of its type in the world — once promoted as a turning point in green energy — isn’t producing as much energy as planned.
UNLV’s football team has changed its travel plans to Hawaii, opting to leave a day later and stay in Waikiki Beach in hopes of ending its struggles there.
Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson has given plenty of money to losing candidates over the years, but he’s one of the big winners of the Republican sweep of 2014.
The Nevada Taxicab Authority said Monday that October taxi trips were up 5.6 percent to 2.4 million passengers for the month compared with the same month a year earlier.
