Robbie Lawler retained the Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight title with a split decision victory over Carlos Condit in the main event of UFC 195 at MGM Grand on Saturday night.
It was proposed across Twitter at one point Saturday night that the six-fight win streak of Andrei Arlovski was more smoke and mirrors than any substantial evidence he was good enough to recapture the Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight title he held 10 years ago.
Friends and family members knew Charlie Demos as a proud Greek-American, good father, military veteran and prosecuting attorney who practiced law for 56 years in Florida.
Without its starting quarterback, No. 11 TCU pulled off one of the greatest comebacks in bowl history.
A gold medal-winning Indian shooter was among 10 people killed in an audacious pre-dawn assault on an air force base, officials said on Sunday as troops worked to clear the compound near India’s border with Pakistan after a 15-hour gunbattle.
Michael McDonald’s return to the cage during the prelims of UFC 195 on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden wasn’t going as planned.
Nine-time Grammy winner Natalie Cole, who died New Year’s Eve, barely survived the Las Vegas Hilton fire on Feb. 10, 1981, one of her many close calls in life.
The first week of the new year will bring rain to the valley and the biggest snowfall of the season to Mount Charleston.
With the top seed in the AFC playoffs at stake, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick will be on the offensive today. It’s doubtful he will need to sweat out a big decision in overtime or get defensive if second-guessed by the media.
Andrew Memmott made four 3-pointers in the second quarter and finished with 22 points Saturday to help Virgin Valley’s boys basketball team rout Lincoln County, 78-36 in Mesquite.
The experts examine the final regular-season games in the NFL season.
Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran early on Sunday morning as Shiite Muslim Iran reacted with fury to Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shi’ite cleric.
For the second time in about eight months, hip-hop singer Chris Brown is connected to a battery investigation at the Palms, according to Las Vegas police.
Las Vegas homicide detectives were constantly working on cases in 2015. That’s because last year’s total homicide count within Metro’s jurisdiction was 136 — eight more than 2014 and the highest since 2006.
Bill Foley is not normally a patient guy. “But in this case, I have to stay patient,” he said. That has been Foley’s mantra since July 20, when the billionaire businessman filed his formal application for an NHL expansion team.
The officers involved in the shooting death of a wanted man from Arizona on New Year’s Eve have been identified. They are Sgt. Robert Bohanon, 37, and officer Blake Walford, 27, according to a release from Metro.
A group of American hackers, New World Hacking, has claimed responsibility for the cyber attack on the BBC website, which took it down for three hours on New Year’s Eve.
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has begun 2016 the same way it closed out 2015: it’s making a killing at the box office. The seventh chapter in the space opera nabbed $34 million on Friday, putting its domestic cume on track for close to $750 million by the end of the holiday weekend.
Jason Peck didn’t expect 2016 to start out like this. Three to four feet of flood waters wiped out his basement and living room. Recalling the damage to his son’s room brought Peck close to tears.
One man was killed and another was injured in a shooting early Saturday morning in the East Las Vegas Valley.
Some landowners would be alarmed — even angry — to discover a federally protected species on their property. Not Susan Sorrells.
Several of the 17 detainees cleared for release from the Guantanamo Bay prison are expected to be transferred next week, a senior U.S. official confirmed to CNN Saturday.
Engineering for Kids is seeking a way to make technology and science exciting for youngsters.
Will there be a Ronda Rousey-Holly Holm rematch in Vegas? Will Floyd Mayweather Jr. come out of retirement? Will a hockey team and a second NASCAR race be announced for 2017? These questions are on the mind of Ken Solky.
Sen. Harry Reid’s focus is clear as he prepares for his final year in office. The 76-year-old Nevadan plans to use his leadership position in the Senate to drive a national agenda that he believes will help the middle class, get more Democrats elected and benefit his home state.
Not many folks predicted that daily fantasy sports would dominate the headlines over the last half of 2015.
Fractured and divided as we are, on one thing we can agree: 2015 was a miserable year. The only cheer was provided by Lincoln Chafee and the Pluto flyby (two separate phenomena), as well as one seminal aeronautical breakthrough.
Can Republicans win the next presidential election without getting more Hispanic votes? It’s a question that has obsessed the party since 2012. It’s also the wrong question.
Innovators and creators from across the globe will descend upon Las Vegas this week, introducing what they hope will be the next life-changing piece of technology at CES, which begins Wednesday.
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