Midas, a 10-year-old lion at the Southern Nevada Zoological-Botanical Park on North Rancho Drive, was euthanized on Thursday after becoming severely ill and undergoing exploratory surgery.
Poker superstar Phil Ivey won his sixth career World Series of Poker individual event championship gold bracelet Thursday night.
Calvin Darling, the pickup truck driver involved in last month’s fatal crash with a Las Vegas police officer, will not face any criminal charges, the Metropolitan Police Department announced this afternoon.
A 60-year-old man accused of stabbing another man to death in a 1996 cold case was indicted this week on a charge of murder with a deadly weapon.
Reno-based slot machine giant International Game Technology dipped into the ranks of Microsoft Corp. to fill the company’s newly created chief technology officer position.
Luck, not the economy, sunk Nevada’s gaming industry in April.
Gamblers played lucky and the casino “hold” percentage suffered, sending statewide revenues to their seventh straight month of double-digit declines. April was also the 16th straight month that gaming revenues fell from the prior year.
Nevada Conservatory Theatre’s “The Music Man” has a playfulness that comes at you in waves.
AKRON, Ohio — Unstoppable at both ends of the floor this season, LeBron James was named the league Most Valuable Player on Monday, receiving the award in the high school gym where he first made his name.
If Kaz Smith had his druthers, the Cimarron-Memorial baseball team would have clinched the Northwest League’s No. 1 seed against Centennial on Thursday.
Facing the goal during a second-period scrum, Wranglers defenseman Dan Spang went down hard after getting punched in the jaw from behind by Stockton left wing Garet Hunt, who was penalized for roughing.
NEXT: Game 6, Thunder at Wranglers, 7:30 p.m. today
The 51s took an early 2-0 lead Monday night, but they had no answer the rest of the way for the Fresno Grizzlies in a 10-2 Pacific Coast League loss in Fresno, Calif.
NEW YORK — The Boston Red Sox got off to a better start at the new Yankee Stadium than the old one.