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A second man killed near a car parked behind an eastside Las Vegas apartment complex last week has been identified. The Clark County coroner said Monday that 30-year-old Villafana Luis Ibarria was shot ...

The National Labor Relations Board on Monday overturned a historic ruling that gave Northwestern University football players the go-ahead to form the nation's first college athletes' union, saying the prospect of union and non-union teams could ...

Authorities have identified a 57-year-old Las Vegas man killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash during the weekend on Interstate 15 northeast of Las Vegas. The Clark County coroner says ...

For the first time at AFAN’s Black & White Party, the benefit at the Hard Rock Hotel will include a pop-up wedding chapel and ordained officials to perform weddings and vow renewals.

Prosecutors pushing for a murder conviction against Oscar Pistorius filed papers at South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal on Monday, four days before the Olympic runner is expected to be released from prison and moved to house arrest. Court registrar Paul Myburgh confirmed the prosecution's papers had been filed. Lawyers for ...

The boys from Compton smashed opening weekend expectations, while the stylish "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." struggled to find its footing. Universal's N.W.A. biopic earned an astonishing $56.1 million in its debut, according to studio estimates Sunday. Director F. Gary Gray's well-received film charts ...

A short sharp earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay Area, but there are no reports of injuries. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 4.0 magnitude quake struck Monday morning and was ...

Republican John Kasich has landed the endorsement of fellow governor Robert Bentley of Alabama, as Kasich seeks to build support for the GOP presidential nomination. The endorsement was announced Monday at ...

China's government ordered a nationwide check of workplace safety Monday to correct any irregularities five days after huge explosions at a warehouse in the port city of Tianjin killed at least 114 people and left 70 others missing. The directive from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology lamented ...

Traffic deaths were up 14 percent nationally in the first six months of this year and injuries were up by a third, according to data gathered by the National Safety Council. An improved economy and low gas prices have ...

Through the tough struggles of the civil rights movement, Julian Bond always kept his sense of humor, and it was his steady demeanor that helped him persist despite the inevitable difficulties involved, his wife recalled. Bond "never took his eyes off the prize and ...

Police say an upstate New York man had his 10-year-old drive his pickup truck while he was sitting in the passenger seat drunk. The Times Union of Albany reports police in the Saratoga County town of Stillwater were ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took a break Monday from courting voters to go to court as a potential juror. Trump shook hands and fist-bumped bystanders as he reported for jury duty at a Manhattan court, arriving in ...

The boyfriend of Morgan Freeman's granddaughter has been arrested in her fatal stabbing on a New York City street. Lamar Davenport was arrested on a murder charge Monday, a day after 33-year-old actress Edena Hines was found ...

Forecasters say near-record temperatures are expected in parts of southern Nevada and northern Arizona over the coming days and they've issued an excessive heat warning through Wednesday night. The National Weather Service says ...

A bomb exploded at a popular shrine near a key political protest site in central Bangkok on Monday evening, the government said, reportedly killing more than a dozen people and injuring many others. The bomb exploded inside the Erawan Shrine, and another undetonated bomb was found ...

If you wondered why President Barack Obama gave such a passionate and, yes, partisan speech on behalf of the Iran nuclear deal Aug. 5, all you had to do was tune in to the Republican presidential debate the next night.

The further the left and right wings in politics move toward opposite extremes, an old saying goes, the more they resemble each other. You can see this vigorously at work these days in the Republican campaign of billionaire Donald Trump and the Democratic campaign of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

In every town large enough to have two traffic lights there is a bar at the back of which sits the local Donald Trump, nursing his fifth beer and innumerable delusions. Because the actual Donald Trump is wealthy, he can turn himself into an unprecedentedly and incorrigibly vulgar presidential candidate. It is his right to use his riches as he pleases. His squalid performance and its coarsening of civic life are costs of freedom that an open society must be prepared to pay.

Las Vegas is a 24-hour destination. Our city hosts millions of visitors each year, is the economic lifeblood of Nevada and is home to the majority of the state’s 2.8 million residents. Here, we present a look at our city and state, their history, infrastructure, government and entertainment, by the numbers ...