A local player won big, just in time for the weekend, at a Las Vegas casino.
Mark Davis

Mark Davis maintains reviewjournal.com on the evenings and weekends. A graduate of Ashland University in Ohio, he has worked as a sports, features and news reporter at several news organizations, including the Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal. He is not related to Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis.
A player ended the month of June on a winning note in downtown Las Vegas on Sunday evening.
A California man is missing at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, park officials said Saturday.
A single-vehicle rollover crash late Sunday in the far northwest Las Vegas Valley left an 18-year-old woman dead and four others injured.
A woman has died more than a week after a collision between a semi-truck and a passenger car in the southwest Las Vegas, the Nevada Highway Patrol reported late Sunday.
Several small earthquakes struck the Carson City area in Northern Nevada on Thursday night, seismologists reported.
A person familiar with the search says the Los Angeles Lakers have hired Frank Vogel as coach and Jason Kidd as an assistant.
A Las Vegas Valley resident has won big after playing at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
Favorite Omaha Beach has been scratched from the Kentucky Derby because of a breathing problem.
Kevin Durant scored 35 points in outdueling James Harden and the Warriors held off the Houston Rockets 104-100 on Sunday in the opener of what is shaping up to be a sensational best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal.
Dustin Poirier bloodied Max Holloway and won a unanimous decision for the UFC interim lightweight title on Saturday night, denying Holloway his chance to become only the fourth fighter to hold two belts at the same time.
It was 16 years ago this week that an epic snowstorm struck the Las Vegas Valley, with parts of the valley seeing 10 inches.
The private treasures of Frank Sinatra and his wife, Barbara, were a multimillion-dollar hit at auction.
Justin Rose got his first PGA Tour victory at Jack Nicklaus’ tournament. His latest came after finishing 20 under at Hogan’s Alley, three strokes ahead of defending U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka.
Many parts of the West are dealing with drought, but nowhere else has more state and federal land been closed to recreation than in Arizona where conditions are ripe for large-scale wildfires.