A Washington state high school student has been suspended after strapping a fake explosive device around his waist in a prom-proposal stunt that spooked staff and teens, a school official said on Thursday.
A man held on a drug charge may have fled the state, and possibly the country, after he put his court-ordered GPS tracking device on a cat and vanished.
A California inmate who spent 25 years on death row for the murder of a brain-damaged woman has died of unknown causes, making him the third condemned prisoner to die this year in a state that has not carried out an execution in nearly a decade.
It’s fair to compare Norm Clarke with Norm Peterson, the character portrayed by George Wendt in the classic sitcom “Cheers.” When he entered the bar each day, Mr. Peterson was greeted by patrons’ simultaneous shout of “Norm!”
If 2016 is going to be the year of the Latino, then the Democratic primary in Congressional District 4 just became ground zero.
Former Utah offensive lineman Jeremiah Poutasi, who went to Desert Pines High School, is expected to be the top Southern Nevada player taken when the NFL Draft begins Thursday, and he is generally considered a midround prospect.
A week from now, Philip Rivers might be the former quarterback of the Chargers. Everything is up in the air regarding his future, and the skies above San Diego are not powder blue. As the world turns and the NFL Draft approaches, this is the most intriguing storyline of the soap opera.
Hannah Gondini doubled down the left-field line to knock in the go-ahead run, and Bishop Gorman hung on for a 14-13 softball victory over Durango on Thursday in a game in which the teams combined for 36 hits. The Gaels led 13-5 in the fourth inning.
The truth: UNLV forward Chris Wood made the correct choice, but there is a right way and wrong way to handle such matters, and Wood failed about as miserably as one can in the process of leaving after his sophomore season for the NBA.
Tim Duncan, San Antonio’s two-time Most Valuable Player, had 28 points and 11 rebounds in Wednesday’s 111-107 overtime win over the Los Angeles Clippers to help the defending NBA champion Spurs avoid their first-ever 0-2 playoff hole under Gregg Popovich.
What few tickets that were made available for public sale for the May 2 Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao megafight at the MGM Grand Garden sold out in less than two minutes Thursday. Tickets were priced from $1,500 to $7,500.
There are so many Kentucky Derby handicapping seminars, and the best part is they’re free. There will be giveaways all over the valley of Derby hats, shirts and glasses. The Run for the Roses will be May 2.
The Las Vegas Outlaws return to the field at 5 p.m. today against the Jacksonville Sharks at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla. Las Vegas (2-1) is in second place in the Arena Football League’s National Conference West Division.
Actors Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner apologized on Thursday for making “tasteless” and “juvenile” comments in which they called their “Avengers” co-star Scarlett Johansson’s superhero character “a slut.”
The UNLV men’s tennis team’s season ended Thursday with a 4-2 loss to San Diego State in the first round of the Mountain West championships in Albuquerque, N.M.
Bishop Gorman softball coach Kevin Smith probably wasn’t expecting an extra-inning game when his team took a 13-5 lead over Durango in the fourth inning Thursday, but the longtime coach settled for all the dramatics in a slugfest between league rivals.
Firefighters and police officers went a second time to the Arcadia Palms Apartments on Thursday, but this time it was to educate. They talked to about 25 children about preventing fires.
Travis Taijeron and Johnny Monell each had a home run among his three hits, drove in two runs and scored twice for the 51s, who scored all of their runs with two outs and held on for an 8-7 win over the Reno Aces in a Pacific Coast League game Thursday in Reno.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson rejects charges that he went easy on a fellow Democrat who was indicted after Republican attorney general took up the case.
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
Chris Opolka walked and came around to score the go-ahead run on an error with no outs in the top of the seventh inning as Shadow Ridge’s baseball team topped host Arbor View 13-8 on Thursday.
An infant was found deceased in a southwest valley home Thursday afternoon, police said.
Skylar Gorrell tripled home the tying runs with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning and scored the winning run on Paulina Franco’s single as host Las Vegas High’s softball team rallied for a 9-8 win over Foothill on Thursday.
Lamont Traylor had 16 kills and three blocks, and Montef Hargrove added 11 kills and five blocks to help Rancho’s boys volleyball team defeat visiting Foothill, 25-17, 23-25, 25-22, 27-25 on Thursday.
Jalen Hodges shot a 1-under-par 35 at Anthem on Thursday to earn medalist honors and help Coronado boys golf team to a 198-206 win over Arbor View.
Allowing data storage company Switch to leave Nevada Power with a lower “exit fee” than recommended by state regulators would expose the utility and its remaining customers to the volatile purchased power market and would not be in the public interest, a member of the PUC staff has testified.
About a dozen Native American actors and actresses walked off the set of Sandler’s “The Ridiculous Six,” according to the Indian Country Today Media Network. Per reports, the actors took offense to racially charged jokes and inaccuracies during the filming of the movie, which Sandler is developing for Netflix.
People who live in the happiest countries have longer life expectancies and more social support, experience more generosity, have more freedom to make life choices, have lower perceptions of corruption and have a higher gross domestic product per capita, the report shows.
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