Zuffa, the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, filed a civil lawsuit in Nevada district court against retired fighter Wanderlei Silva on Tuesday, accusing the part-time Las Vegan of “intentional misconduct” as a result of his recent claims the organization has fixed fights in the past.
The link between achievement and income is well documented, but a new study has confirmed that the effects of poverty on children are physiological as much as they are social.
If your student doesn’t excel at high-stakes testing, like many students, getting into college might be getting easier.
No score was kept. No trophies were handed out. No grown-ups were supervising, or watching, or yelling at the umpires — there weren’t any umpires. These kids were having a great time.
Clayton Blackburn shut out the 51s for seven innings and hit a solo home run as the Sacramento RiverCats claimed a 4-2 Pacific Coast League victory Wednesday night at Sacramento, Calif.
TV director Jason “Jace” Alexander was arrested Wednesday in connection with the possession and file-sharing of child pornography.
Will the usually-topless-but-not-this-time women of Luxor’s “Fantasy” show lure you into a nightclub we never talk about?
Kaka came into Wednesday night happy to be in the MLS All-Star Game. He was even happier when he walked away with MVP honors.
Players usually don’t participate in Mountain West football media days more than once because coaches like to reward seniors. Utah State quarterback Chuckie Keeton is a senior, but this is his third trip in a row to The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas for the preseason gabfest with the fourth estate.
The Las Vegas museum devoted to the exploits of Tommy gun-wielding mobsters will open a permanent display that explores the “rampant corruption” of global soccer’s scandal-rocked governing body, which has drawn comparisons to organized crime.
Players were seated throughout the ballroom, answering questions about the season and providing their expectations of what’s to come. Then the music began.
Everyone who fishes the lower Colorado River seems to have an opinion on striped bass. Some call them everything but a quality sportfish, while others sing their praises as a fighter and a food source. And there seems to be little middle ground.
LAKE MEAD — Windy conditions have slowed fishing activity, though fishermen focusing on catfish have had good luck with stink baits and anchovies.
Defense lawyer Brian Bloomfield may avoid permanent disbarment even though he pleaded guilty to charges related to forging court documents and destroying evidence.
Odds are pretty good Nevada voters will give a green thumbs-up to recreational marijuana in November 2016. How will legal pot change Las Vegas?
They can still be loud — and, in some cases, very nearly naked — but Fremont Street’s buskers might soon have to ply their trade where Las Vegas tells them to.
Wednesday was another hot, sunny day in the Las Vegas Valley, with a side of wind.
Just about anywhere in the world where Spanish is spoken, you’re bound to hear reference to a Juanes song.
Allegiant Travel Co., parent company of Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air, reported its 50th straight profitable quarter on Wednesday despite lower ticket prices and load factors than the same quarter a year ago.
Two Allegiant Air executives, the vice president of operations and the director of flight safety, were at the controls of the flight that made an emergency landing last week because it was nearly out of fuel.
Water officials insist a pilot program designed to save Colorado River water and boost Lake Mead and Lake Powell is off to such a promising start that they are already looking to pour more money into it.
A body found in a suitcase on a Utah highway in April was a Las Vegas woman who went missing in November, law enforcement said Wednesday.
Re Midas wine is a fine, deep semitranslucent garnet-red color with a firm, deep core going out into a slightly tinged garnet-red rim definition.
A small goat was nearly decapitated and another goat died from a “heinous” knife attack on the animals in a fenced and locked site where they had been placed to graze on weeds in northern Idaho, a police spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
It might not be drawing all the publicity as its neighboring arena project on the Strip, but the new park under construction next to New York-New York that will lead people from the Strip to the $375 million arena is showing its first green signs.
An Oklahoma woman charged with downing Jell-O shots of alcohol while driving a commercial bus has been arrested for violating state traffic laws, police said on Wednesday.
Your newborn’s birth weight may tell you what kind of person he or she will be later in life.
A plane part that washed up on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean is believed to come from a Boeing 777, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
A new company is running the four Ashley Furniture HomeStores in Las Vegas.
