Everywhere you look in Vegas nightlife, it’s all about “bubble-butts” and beards. But UFC model Arianny Celeste is not on board the junk-in-your-trunk bandwagon.
An educated citizenry contributes to an improved quality of life for all. At the college level, the money to pay faculty and keep the lights on comes from tuition and fees, workforce and research grants, and state dollars. However, state funding for the eight institutions in the Nevada System of Higher Education decreased dramatically, by nearly 30 percent, during the Great Recession, from a high of $683,818,577 in 2009 to $472,368,017 in 2013.
Today Hillary Clinton makes her first campaign stop in Las Vegas as an announced presidential candidate, and she couldn’t have scripted a clearer acknowledgment that illegal immigration has had a profound effect on public education.
This Mother’s Day, please join me in taking a pledge to lovingly remind the amazing women in our lives that their health needs to be at the top of their long list of things-to-do to keep that “super” in supreme well-being!
Four people were injured in a car crash while fleeing from police Monday night, according to Metro.
Legislative Counsel auditors identified $780,000 in overpayments for behavioral health claims, and $285,000 in overpayments and improper billings for dental claims.
You can’t miss Star Frank’s 40-foot Fleetwood Pace Arrow motorhome when it’s on the road. It’s the one with the 80- and 50-inch video screens promoting various events and businesses in Southern Nevada.
“Avengers: Age of Ultron” dominated the box office this weekend, but in the record books, it will have to settle for runner-up status.
Foothill golfer Andrew Chu has felt the sting of second place in four straight high school majors. The Falcons” senior hopes the extra work he put in this season finally puts him over the top.
A Florida man changing a flat tire on a freeway bridge lost his balance and plunged 30 feet into the water below, sustaining minor injuries before authorities fished him out, police said on Monday.
Rancho”s Ryan Hafen and Lamont Traylor each played an integral part in helping the boys basketball team make its first playoff apperance in nine years in February. Now the two are looking to use that experience to help the Rams” volleyball team advance past the opening round of playoffs for the first time in five years on Tuesday.
A Senate committee Monday agreed with the concept of a bill cracking down on candidate residency violations but disagreed on how vacancies should be handled if a person deemed ineligible should win at the ballot box.
Bryant Pochop had seven kills, three aces and three digs Monday to lead Tech’s boys volleyball team to a 25-22, 25-23, 27-25 road victory over Chaparral.
The Department of Energy this week is performing a test run of the route and procedures for shipping potent uranium waste from a federal laboratory in Tennessee for disposal in Nevada.
A Washington state patrolman whose car struck two people crossing the street against a do-not-walk sign in December will face no punishment and the injured pair have been fined $112 each after a probe found them at fault, police said on Monday.
The World’s Fair has left us with a number of familiar architectural marvels that long outlived their six months in the global spotlight. With Expo 2015 now underway, we’ve put together a list of iconic structures purpose built for a World’s Fair.
Manny Pacquiao will have surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder later this week after re-injuring the joint during Saturday’s 12-round unanimous decision loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr.
The Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao welterweight championship fight on Saturday in Las Vegas was expected to generate 3 to 4 million pay-per-view buys at nearly $100 each, but thousands also watched the boxing match for free thanks to Twitter’s video-streaming app, Periscope. Lawyers for Las Vegas-based Top Rank, the fight’s co-promoter, were looking into the alleged piracy Monday.
The game will be made up us a part of a doubleheader beginning at 4:05 p.m. PDT Tuesday at Isotopes Park.
Seth Gilliam, who joined the cast last season as the morally conflicted Rev. Gabriel Stokes, was arrested in Peachtree City, Georgia, early Sunday.
Daniel Cormier has a nasty rivalry with disgraced fighter Jon Jones and stands to benefit from the UFC’s decision to strip his light heavyweight belt. But Cormier isn’t reveling in Jones’ fall: “I hope this guy gets help and comes back to the UFC just as he was before.”
A Michigan man who winters in Las Vegas became the first patient in Nevada to receive a newly approved form of medication to treat Parkinson’s disease.
In a surrealistic, you-don’t-see-that-everyday kind of way, the storied Riviera, a fixture on the north end of the Strip for 60 years, closed its doors for good Monday.
Jen Hamson, who is 6 feet 7 inches tall, is one of three nonroster invitees to Team USA women’s basketball minicamp at the Mendenhall Center. She says she loves being 6-7, except when she shops for blue jeans.
In his third day of testimony casino mogul Sheldon Adelson denied knowledge of a secret “exorcism strategy” to rid Sands China Ltd. of its president and CEO, Steven Jacobs.
Running back Altee Tenpenny announced on Instagram he will transfer from Alabama to UNLV. He will have to sit out next season under NCAA transfer rules, but Tenpenny was one of the nation’s top recruits in 2013.
Rancho’s Ryan Hafen and Lamont Traylor each played an integral part in helping the boys basketball team make its first playoff apperance in nine years in February. Now the two are looking to use that experience to help the Rams’ volleyball team advance past the opening round of playoffs for the first time in five years on Tuesday.
The first photo of the “Suicide Squad” is here. Director David Ayer tweeted the first photo of the cast of the highly anticipated comicbook film in costume on Sunday.
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