The co-founder of Alibaba has agreed to buy the remaining 51 percent of the Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center from Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. Two people with knowledge of the details tell The Associated Press the deals worth about $3.4 billion.
John Knott, a Las Vegas real estate broker who sold numerous well-known properties on or near the Strip, died Friday.
A federal appeals court’s ruling will allow the White House to begin rejecting asylum at some parts of the U.S.-Mexico border for migrants who arrived after transiting through a third country.
A 34-year-old man was shot to death last weekend at a North Las Vegas apartment complex in a previously unpublicized homicide, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned.
The new guidance in the August issue of a church youth magazine doesn’t include any fundamental changes to the religion’s strict health code.
“We see it as an expression of greater interest in investing in our country and the possibilities we offer,” the government said. “Of course, Greenland is not for sale.”
Years before Northwest Academy was closed amid an ongoing child abuse investigation, officials from four Nevada communities removed their students from the facility.
An allegation of Medicaid fraud last year against Northwest Academy led state officials to temporarily suspend payments to the boarding school.
Authorities say a man suspected of kidnapping his 80-year-old mother from a nursing home in Reno has been arrested after a standoff in a Los Angeles suburb.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday awarded the nation’s highest medal, the Hero of Russia, to the pilot who managed to smoothly land his disabled passenger plane in a cornfield after a flock of birds hit both engines and knocked them out.
Three abandoned devices that looked like pressure cookers caused an evacuation of a major New York City subway station and closed off an intersection Friday morning.
A Las Vegas man accused of plotting to attack a local synagogue also had sketched out plans to target a McDonald’s restaurant, according to a new court document.
Actresses America Ferrera and Eva Longoria are leading a group of more than 150 writers, artists and leaders who have written a public “letter of solidarity” to U.S. Latinos after recent shootings and a massive immigration raid.
Las Vegas police gang detectives have been called to assist in an investigation into a shooting late Thursday that eventually led to a crash on a central valley highway.
HONG KONG — Members of China’s paramilitary People’s Armed Police marched and practiced crowd control tactics at a sports complex in Shenzhen across from Hong Kong on Friday, in what some interpreted as a threat against pro-democracy protesters in the semiautonomous territory.
Global stock markets looked set to end a turbulent week on a positive note although worries about the U.S. economy and trade conflict have the potential to derail Friday’s recovery.
The excessive heat warning for the Las Vegas Valley ends at 8 p.m. Friday, but high temperatures will only moderate slightly.
President Donald Trump sought to reassure his supporters about the state of the U.S. economy in New Hampshire, a state that he hopes to capture in 2020, that their financial security depends on his reelection.
Israel’s interior minister said Friday he has received and granted a request by Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib to enter the Israeli-occupied West Bank on humanitarian grounds.
