On Sunday, pirates, mermaids and all sorts of creatures sailed into Craig Ranch Regional Park in North Las Vegas for the annual Pirate Fest.
A gunman fired indiscriminately into a crowd that had gathered for cookouts on a street in Baltimore, wounding seven people including one of them fatally on Sunday, the city’s police commissioner said.
The Aviators returned home Wednesday from their most recent Pacific Coast League road trip with a 3½-game lead on the second-place El Paso Chihuahuas in the Pacific South Division.
Southwest Airlines says Boeing did not disclose that it had deactivated a safety feature on its 737 Max jets until after one of the airliners crashed last year.
A pilot who was trying to crash-land this past week in an Idaho field instead brought his small plane to rest at the top of a 60-foot tree, officials said.
Authorities say curiosity about gunfire coming from a hotel parking lot in Alabama left a guest wounded when he went to check on the noise.
Former UNLV running back Lexington Thomas will try out for the Indianapolis Colts at their minicamp, according to the Houston Chronicle.
A college freshman was among the four people killed when a construction crane fell from a building and crashed onto one of Seattle’s busiest streets, the university said Sunday.
“We are a Jewish nation that will stand tall. We will not let anyone take us down. Terrorism like this will not take us down,” Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein told his congregants after gunfire erupted Saturday at Chabad of Poway.
Police are investigating whether a suspect captured after an hours-long manhunt knew five people whose bodies were discovered in two homes in rural Tennessee.
PEMBA, Mozambique — A second disaster unfolded on Sunday in northern Mozambique in the wake of Cyclone Kenneth as raging flood waters killed one person and began to cut off the region’s main city from the outside world. Some 160,000 people were at risk, with more torrential rain forecast for the days ahead.
Their churches closed for fear of an attack by Islamic State group-linked militants, Sri Lanka’s Catholics celebrated Mass in their homes Sunday as the island nation’s archbishop presided over a televised service, a week after Easter suicide bombings killed over 250 people.
Damon J. Keith, a federal judge famous for being sued President Richard Nixon and an iconic national figure in the civil rights movement has died at the age of 96.
Israeli leaders are mourning the death of a prominent Hassidic rabbi who survived Auschwitz and championed Holocaust remembrance among ultra-Orthodox Jews.
The U.S. has little interest in joining other countries in a multi-nation effort to get North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser said Sunday.
A 25-year-old Las Vegas man who was killed Saturday night after his truck hit a wall in the southeast valley had been driving on the wrong side of the road to avoid slow cars, according to Las Vegas police.
Former Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, a Republican foreign policy sage known for leading efforts to help the former Soviet states dismantle and secure much of their nuclear arsenal, but whose reputation for working with Democrats cost him his final campaign, died Sunday. He was 87.
A man is hospitalized in “stable” condition after he was shot in the chest early Sunday in downtown Las Vegas, according to Las Vegas police.
Las Vegans can expect to make use of umbrellas and sunscreen this week, with rain and possible thunderstorms forecast for Monday, while sunny, warm conditions are expected midweek, according to the National Weather Service.
The tradition of releasing balloons at weddings, birthdays and memorials may soon get deflated by lawmakers in more than half a dozen states.
Producer Irwin Winkler, who was nominated for 52 Academy Awards and produced blockbusters such as “Rocky,” “Raging Bull,” “The Right Stuff” and “Creed,” has a new book and a new movie coming out.
Attaching a hotel-casino to a convention center was a money loser. That was the conventional wisdom before The Venetian opened on the Strip 20 years ago this week.
Luis Urias and Jacob Scavuzzo each hit a pair of the El Paso Chihuahuas’ season-high seven home runs in a 12-3 win over the Las Vegas Aviators on Saturday.
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’s all coming up aces for the White House.
The top-seeded UNLV women’s tennis team won a regular-season and league tournament title in the same season for the first time, blanking host San Diego State 4-0 in the Mountain West Championship final Saturday.
The Springs Preserve held its annual Dia del Nino celebration on Saturday, much to the delight of the youngsters in attendance.
An officer in rural Tennessee shot the suspect in the investigation into the discovery of five bodies in two homes, capping an hours-long manhunt Saturday that ended with his capture.
Rances Barthelemy and Robert Easter Jr. boxed to a split draw on a Showtime-televised card Saturday at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, ensuring that the WBA and IBO lightweight titles remain vacant.