Blake Griffin, the No. 1 pick in last month’s NBA Draft, scored 27 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in 30 minutes to lead the Los Angeles Clippers past their crosstown rivals, the Lakers, 93-82 in the NBA Summer League at the Thomas & Mack Center.
In a time when speed trumps patience, a Twitter-style rugby tournament apt for the modern era is coming to Las Vegas.
Wink Adams was right about two things: He knew he wasn’t getting drafted last month and that he would stay in Las Vegas to play in the NBA Summer League.
The man accused of wounding four people after opening fire inside the New York-New York in 2007 was found guilty of dozens of charges Monday night.
Like a casino resort that cuts rates to juice business in hard times, makers of the ubiquitous “what happens here, stays here” ads for Las Vegas will lower their price.
Last month, Jim Hagen bartered his prized “Star Trek” collectors plate to cover the rental fee for an usher’s jacket from the American Costume Shop on Sahara Avenue. … That jacket, he hoped, might give him the edge he needed in landing the usher’s job he saw advertised at the Venetian. … It didn’t. … But his effort did give the unemployed 61-year-old grandfather the edge in landing a job with Joe Babcock’s Business Planning Group, a Las Vegas firm that helps small businesses get off the ground.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — A criminal indictment accuses a Las Vegas physician of using his clinic in the northwest Arizona community of Golden Valley to illegally distribute prescription drugs and submit false insurance claims.
The search for an interim president at UNLV begins today with a series of meetings between key higher education leaders and constituencies from the university.
Attorneys on a treasure hunt for former strip club owner Rick Rizzolo’s money hit a wall Monday when a federal judge denied their motion to compel Rizzolo’s camp to turn over financial records and impose sanctions against attorneys representing Rizzolo’s wife.
An on-duty Las Vegas police officer suffered moderate injuries Monday night after being involved in a three-car collision.
CARSON CITY — The attorney general’s office opposes efforts by lawyers for Lt. Gov. Bryan Krolicki to have felony charges of mishandling funds dismissed on grounds the case was improperly filed in Las Vegas instead of Northern Nevada.
Las Vegas police don’t expect a man who was shot in the head Friday night at a traffic light near the intersection of Nellis Boulevard and Sahara Avenue to survive.
A hearing over a contested Mob Museum contract has been moved to 11 a.m. Thursday, and the judge might rescind a restraining order keeping the contract from going forward.
In the past few days, Holly Madison has been shadowed on the town by a New York Times reporter, served as a ring girl for the UFC, cut a charity video with Carrot Top and performed in “Peepshow” at Planet Hollywood.