UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz retained his belt with a unanimous decision victory over Urijah Faber in the main event of UFC 132 at the MGM Grand Garden on Saturday night.
About 4,000 homes in the metropolitan Phoenix area are without power — and air-conditioning — on a record-shattering day of heat in one of the nation’s hottest cities.
One home was destroyed and two others were damaged Saturday as Clark County and Las Vegas firefighters battled a mobile home fire at the Echo Mobile Home Park, 1322 S. Mojave Road, near Charleston Boulevard and Palm Street. A separate fire burned pvc piping at a North Las Vegas company.
No more deaths are expected from a crash between a big-rig truck and an Amtrak passenger train in Northern Nevada, authorities said Saturday as federal investigators neared the completion of their on-scene probe.
HOWELL TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A wayward baboon that apparently escaped from an amusement park and became a mini-celebrity — appearing at a golf course and being followed on Twitter — was captured Saturday after spending three days on the lam.
NEW YORK — This year’s Fourth of July race to stuff your face with hot dogs has a new feminine taste: Nathan’s Famous women-only pigout.
MONACO — A day after the civil wedding that transformed one-time Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock into the Princess of Monaco, she and Prince Albert II wed in a star-studded religious ceremony Saturday.
CHICAGO — A Seattle man was charged Friday in the long-unsolved slaying of a 7-year-old girl who was abducted in 1957 near her home in the northern Illinois, prosecutors said.
CARSON CITY — The owner of several Las Vegas auto repair shops has been ordered to pay restitution and civil fines to resolve consumer complaints following an investigation by the attorney general’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
UNLV’s Derek Ernst won two matches Friday to reach the final of the U.S. Amateur Public Links in Bandon, Ore.
The Asian Chamber of Commerce on Thursday officially opened the doors of its new headquarters, a move that reflects the rapid expansion of the Asian-American business community in the Las Vegas Valley in recent years.
CARSON CITY — Washoe County is demanding a $21.5 million refund from the state for diverting property taxes from the local government over the past three years to pad state coffers — a practice that was common until a Nevada Supreme Court ruling in May said the budget-plugging tactic was unconstitutional.
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