Bushwacker has become the talk of this week’s Professional Bull Riders World Finals at the Thomas & Mack Center. On the one hand, every rider wants a chance to ride him. On the other, there’s not a cowboy who doesn’t dread such a draw.
The lyrics of Justin Bieber’s pop hit “Baby” blared through the sound system on Friday night at Eldorado Park . Some of the more than 200 in attendance danced, others giggled. The song may have seemed out of place for another candlelight vigil, but here, mixed with tears, it somehow fit.
The Cardinals beat the Texas Rangers, 6-2, tonight in St. Louis to win the seventh and deciding game of the World Series. It’s the Cardinals first World Series crown since 2006.
ATLANTIC CITY — The likelihood of a strike in the nation’s second-largest gambling market receded on Friday as the city’s main casino workers’ union reached a tentative agreement with Atlantic City’s largest casino company, Caesars Entertainment Inc.
A mental health examination was ordered Friday for Alfred Sapse, an 85-year-old Las Vegas man charged in a fraud scheme involving the use of experimental stem cell implant procedures.
Authorities arrested 21 fugitives, including 14 related to sex offenses, this week in Nevada’s fifth annual Operation Trick-or-Treat.
An accidental attic fire on Friday morning gutted the kitchen and family room of a duplex in Sun City Summerlin, leaving an estimated $175,000 in damages and an elderly woman with minor smoke-inhalation injuries.
A Nye County sheriff’s investigator says authorities are trying to determine if a 43-year-old convicted sex offender victimized children in places where he used to live in Southern California, Florida, Missouri and New Jersey.
CHICAGO — Offer apples to trick-or-treaters and risk having your house get egged — maybe even by your own kids.
Inspirada, the massive Henderson project promoted as the valley’s leading example of new urbanism, has received court approval for its Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization plan.
Track owner Bruton Smith said Friday he would welcome IndyCar back to Las Vegas Motor Speedway if the series wants to return.
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Police in Bellingham, Wash., say a man who walked into a medical clinic with his right arm severed indicated he cut his own limb off with a homemade guillotine.