Las Vegas, NV (Sports Network) - Tre'Von Willis finished with 18 points and made critical free throws down the stretch, as UNLV upended No. 14 BYU, 70-66, to reach the championship game of the Mou...
LAS VEGAS -- UNLV and San Diego State have spent the last month making their case to join heavyweights New Mexico and Brigham Young in the NCAA tournament.Both underdogs will get to give a closing ar...
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Jahmar Young drove the lane for a basket with 3.8 seconds on the clock to give New Mexico State a wild 80-79 victory over Nevada in the semifinals of the Western Athletic Conference ...
LAS VEGAS -- A Nevada National Guard official said about 50 soldiers from a Henderson military police unit will begin training in mid-April for a year-long mission in Afghanistan.Sgt. 1st Class Erick ...
LAS VEGAS -- Casino operator MGM Mirage said the primary contractor for its newly completed joint venture -- the $8.5 billion CityCenter complex in Las Vegas -- intends to file mechanic's liens to col...
RENO, Nev. -- Lawyers for both sides clashed Friday over a lawsuit filed against Gov. Jim Gibbons by a former administrator who claims she was improperly fired from her job.U.S. District Court Judge R...
UNLV's Anthony Marshall dunk during an NCAA college basketball game against BYU at the Mountain West tournament in Las Vegas on Friday, March 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)
The UNLV Runnin' Rebels moved closer to punching their ticket to the NCAA Mens Basketball tournament by defeating the BYU Cougars Friday night 70 to 66. UNLV fans packed the Thomas and Mack Cente...
DENVER (Associated Press) -- A 31-year-old mother from Colorado was one of seven Muslims arrested this week in Ireland in an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, the woman's pare...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses a meeting in honor of the 15th Anniversary of the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing at the United Nations headquarters on Friday, March 1...
RENO, NV - Reno police have arrested the man they think stabbed another man to death last weekend. Ryan Cox is in the Washoe County jail... accused of stabbing Jeffrey Mittelsteadt to death last Satu...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife underwent surgery Friday to stabilize serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trailer rear-ended the minivan she and their daughter were riding in on an inter...
RENO, Nev. – Down by three with under six seconds left, Nevada’s Shavon Moore stole a LA Tech inbounds pass and found Johnna Ward with four seconds left in the game but Ward’s three was just off...
These days almost all of us are trying to get the most bang for our buck. Tomorrow that won’t be difficult, that is if you go to the 59th Annual Physicians Spouses Rummage sale.
CARSON CITY, Nev. -- Nevada's U.S. Senate race has drawn a throng of candidates, including 12 Republicans who hope to win the June 8 primary for a chance to take on Democratic incumbent Harry Reid.But...
SAN ANTONIO (Associated Press) -- San Antonio police have called off a landfill search after finding no evidence in the disappearance of an 8-month-old Arizona boy.San Antonio Police Chief William McM...
Members of the media watch a Florida FBI videotaped interview from March 8, 2010, of Jackie Zudis, an alleged victim of George England, as she describes living and being abused by England for over 20 ...
Anaheim Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf (15) pushes Nashville Predators right wing Martin Erat of the Czech Republic (10) in to the boards as Nashville Predators center Jason Arnott, back left, and Anaheim ...
Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant (24) shoots over Phoenix Suns guard Jason Richardson during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game Friday, March 12, 2010, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York) ...
Dallas Stars left wing Loui Eriksson (21), of Sweden, controls the puck as he gets by Los Angeles Kings defenseman Rob Scuderi (7) in the first period of an NHL hockey game, Friday, March 12, 2010, in...
This undated publicity image provided by A&E shows actor Corey Haim, who appeared in the A&E reality TV show "The Two Coreys" with his friend Corey Feldman. Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob for his roles...
Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) - Just hours after a mother and her boyfriend appear in court on charges related to a little boy's death, police make another arrest at the home where the child lived his fina...
This image provided by the New York Police Department and made from a surveillance camera inside a convenience store near a bar shows a man police believe to be the stranger who followed a woman into ...
With his hands handcuffed behind his back, Anthony Kirkland, right, talks with attorney Norm Aubin during trial at the Hamilton County Courthouse on Friday, March 12, 2010, in Cincinnati. Kirkland is ...
NEW YORK (Associated Press) -- Thousands of New York City taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million over the past two years by setting their meters at a rate that was supposed to b...
Los Angeles Clippers' Drew Gooden (0) drives to the basket as Charlotte Bobcats' Theo Ratliff, left, defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game on Friday, March. 12, 2010, in Charlotte, N...
This undated publicity image provided by A&E shows actor Corey Haim, who appeared in the A&E reality TV show "The Two Coreys" with his friend Corey Feldman. Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob for his roles...
New Mexico's Dairese Gary is guarded by San Diego State's Malcolm Thomas, left, and Kelvin Davis during the semifinals of Mountain West Conference tournament in Las Vegas on Friday, March 12, 2010. ...
This year's record number of appeals on property values has pushed the countywide tax revenue loss to an estimated $435 million, and the bleeding isn't over.As of Feb. 27, the appeals led to reduction...
KTNV ABC,Channel 13,Las Vegas,Nevada,News,Weather,Sports,Entertainment,KTNV.com,Action News .:. Pilot killed in crash in Boulder City after plane runs out of fuel
This image provided by the New York Police Department and made from a surveillance camera inside a convenience store near a bar shows a man police believe to be the stranger who followed a woman into ...
State Board of Education member Mary Helen Berlanga listens to debate during an SBOE meeting in Austin, Texas, on Friday, March 12, 2010. Earlier in the day, the board voted 10-5 to preliminarily adop...
FILE - In this Tuesday, March 9, 2010 file photo, driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon in El Cajon, Calif. A law firm ...
Los Angeles Clippers' Drew Gooden (0) drives to the basket as Charlotte Bobcats' Theo Ratliff, left, defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game on Friday, March. 12, 2010, in Charlotte, N...
TUCSON, Ariz. (Associated Press) -- Adam LaRoche hit a two-run homer off Brett Anderson in the first inning and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Oakland Athletics 10-1 on Friday.Ian Kennedy threw thr...
In a city where so many people want to be that one-in-a-million stand out, there is one woman who is truly unique. She has a rare disease called Acromegaly in which a tumor wrapped around her pituita...
Just when we thought the housing market was starting to find stable ground, predictions that a new wave of foreclosures is coming shakes things up again.
CARSON CITY The secretary of state's office is investigating a complaint that Assemblywoman Kathy McClain violated laws by using campaign contributions for personal uses, such as to cover her retir...
KTNV ABC,Channel 13,Las Vegas,Nevada,News,Weather,Sports,Entertainment,KTNV.com,Action News .:. Metro officer under investigation for having sex on the job
Las Vegas, NV- After losing almost 7% of its funding, the Clark County School Superintendent has released a memo saying the district has no choice but to lay off employees to offset a 125 million doll...
Echo Loder Elementary may be the most at-risk of all of Washoe County's 102 schools. Yet it's the kind of school that often attracts the most dedicated educators. About 85 percent of the students her...
FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife underwent surgery Friday to stabilize serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trailer rear-ended the minivan she and their daughter were ...
LOS ANGELES (AP -- Tweens probably don't know who Patsy Cline is, which is why Lilly Scott thinks she was voted off "American Idol" Thursday night. Her last song was Cline's "I Fall to Pieces." Scott ...
LOS ANGELES -- The 22 pieces of custom-made furniture Michael Jackson commissioned for his London home are going on the auction block. Darren Julien of Julien's Auctions says a gilded red velvet sofa ...
ARLINGTON, Texas -- The phenomenon that is Manny Pacquiao grew with a series of wins against some of the biggest names around. Now he has a fight to win against a guy who has nothing to lose. It wasn'...
This 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010, that the agency is looking into the case of Mobley, who grew ...
FILE - In this Tuesday, March 9, 2010 file photo, driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon in El Cajon, Calif. A law firm ...
FILE - In this film publicity image released by Disney, Ebenezer Scrooge, voiced by Jim Carrey, is shown in a scene from "A Christmas Carol." To further cut costs at its movie studio, The Walt Disney ...
In this March 10, 2010 photo released by Fox, contestant Michael Lynche performs in front of the judges on the singing competition series, "American Idol," in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Fox, Frank Micelot...
reporting They’ve received their orders and now nearly 50 soldiers with the Nevada Army Guard’s 137th Military Police Detachment are preparing to head to Afghanistan. The deployment has be...
NEW YORK After a smashing return, Jay Leno appears headed to a battle with David Letterman for late-night television supremacy. The Nielsen Co. says Leno averaged 5.6 million viewers last ...
KTNV ABC,Channel 13,Las Vegas,Nevada,News,Weather,Sports,Entertainment,KTNV.com,Action News .:. NV Energy hopes to replace electric meters with more energy efficient ones
The gaming industry and our economy have suffered in the recession, but those Lincoln head copper pieces are coming to the rescue. Penny slots were the biggest source of income in January. The noise,...
RENO, NV - A lot of people are looking for work these days. Based on the latest number, Washoe County has a jobless rate of 13.5%. At a job fair on Friday, hundreds of people showed up, hoping to land...
We're about to lose one hour this weekend when clocks "spring forward" for Daylight Saving Time. The change officially takes place at 2:00am Sunday, March 14th.
SAN FRANCISCO (Associated Press) -- Three men already accused of shooting a man with a BB gun because they thought he was gay could face additional charges for shooting at 11 others in San Francisco.P...
In this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo, Don McLeroy, former Texas State Board of Education chairman, talks with new Chairwoman Gail Lowe during a break in a meeting of the board where hearings on a new soc...
This undated image from Senator Harry Reid's Senate website shows Reid, second from left standing, with his family including daughter Lana, left sitting, and wife Landra. Reid's wife was hospitalized ...
In this photo taken on March, 11, 2010, Chicago White Sox pitcher Jake Peavy, right, and Ricky Chancy play music at Jake Peavy's Woodjock 2010 A Big League Jam Fest in Scottsdale, Ariz., Thursday, Mar...
GLENDALE, Ariz. (Associated Press) -- Aroldis Chapman struck out two over two scoreless innings and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2 on Friday.Chapman allowed just two infield sing...
GOODYEAR, Ariz. (Associated Press) -- Fausto Carmona pitched three scoreless innings and the Cleveland Indians blew a three-run lead in the ninth against a Los Angeles Angels split-squad.The Indians f...
LOS ANGELES (Associated Press) -- To further cut costs at its movie studio, The Walt Disney Co. said Friday that it will shut a San Francisco-area facility used to capture the performance of Jim Carre...
FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2010 file photo, Orlando Bloom attends the premiere of "Sympathy For Delicious" during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer) LOS ANGEL...
(Associated Press) -- Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:___ABC's "This Week" _ White House senior adviser David Axelrod; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.___CBS' "Face the Nation" _ White House pres...
was coming from. The single biggest contributor to Tropicana's carbon footprint wasn't the transport of the juice to stores or the energy required to operate a modern citrus farm. Rather, it was the f...
is not the sort of place prickly critics get excited about. The food is unchallenging to a fault — skewing heavily towards Italian — and is filled with cliché after cliché lifted straight from t...
With the ink barely dry on a measure aimed at balancing the budget, the state has been hit with a pair of lawsuits over a move to tap money collected for a shelved wastewater project in the Las Vegas ...
Lawyers for both sides clashed today over a lawsuit filed against Gov. Jim Gibbons by a former administrator who claims she was improperly fired from her job.
This undated image provided by the State of Utah shows Majority Leader Republican Kevin Garn. A late-night confession Thursday March 11, 2010 by Utah's House majority leader, Garn, about sitting nude ...
PATERSON, N.J. (Associated Press) -- Jurors will get to hear testimony of the extreme physical and mental abuse allegedly inflicted by a New Jersey man accused of repeatedly raping his five daughters ...
This undated publicity image provided by A&E shows actor Corey Haim, who appeared in the A&E reality TV show "The Two Coreys" with his friend Corey Feldman. Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob for his roles...
CARSON CITY -- While expressing concerns that a lawsuit could put state spending in the red again, Gov. Jim Gibbons on Friday signed the bill that reduces spending by state agencies, raises fees and m...
FILE- In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, a shell of what was once part of the facade of one of the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center rises above the rubble that remains after both towers we...
GOLDEN, Colo. (Associated Press) -- The man accused of shooting and wounding two students at a Colorado middle school told investigators he has been hearing voices since 2002, and he talked about tryi...
SALT LAKE CITY (Associated Press) -- On the seventh anniversary of Elizabeth Smart's return from her kidnapping ordeal, a judge set a trial date Friday for the man charged in the case.U.S. District Ju...
LOS ANGELES (Associated Press) -- Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. on Friday rejected a bid by activist shareholder Carl Icahn to boost his stake in the movie studio, and its board disclosed the adoptio...
FILE - In this March 7, 2010 file photo, Jay Leno arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file) NEW YORK (Associated Press) -- After a smashing ret...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Harry Reid's wife Landra remained in serious condition this morning at a Washington-area hospital with injuries from an auto accident on Thursday.Landra Reid, 69, suffered a broken ...
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - Prosecutors in Orange County, Calif., have filed a lawsuit against Toyota because of continuing problems with its vehicles. The district attorney's office accuses the automak...
This 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010 that the agency is looking into the case of 26-year-old son, S...
This undated publicity image provided by A&E shows actor Corey Haim, who appeared in the A&E reality TV show "The Two Coreys" with his friend Corey Feldman. Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob for his roles...
Well a lot of Doctors get referral fee's from other doctors sending new patients which has been happening for many years. So really not shocked by this article.
LOS ANGELES -- Teen power won out on "American Idol" as Katie Stevens claimed a place in the top 12 while a more experienced singer got the ax. Stevens, 17, earned viewer support even thoug...
extensions on agendaClark County School Board member Linda Young has asked the School Board at its next regular meeting on March 25 to reconsider the contract extensions approved for five executive st...
Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal (AP) Farrah Fawcett secretly planned to reunite with ex-husband Lee Majors on stage in Las Vegas in the final years before her death, RadarOnline reports. The "Charlie'...
This Jan. 31, 2007 file photo shows Jimmy Nolan, of Yonkers, N.Y., who worked at at Ground Zero after the attack on the World Trade Center, displays the rash on his hands during a news conference at G...
NEW CASTLE, Pa. (Associated Press) -- A hearing is under way in Pennsylvania to determine whether a 12-year-old boy can be tried as an adult on charges he killed his father's pregnant fiancee.Jordan B...
PRAGUE (Associated Press) -- A documentary by two Tibetan filmmakers tracing a year in the life of the Dalai Lama has won the Vaclav Havel award for its contribution to the protection of human rights....
Action News is always working to make Las Vegas a better and safer place to live. So we want to let you about the "Keeping Kids Safe Project." Findlay Honda on West Azure is hosting a free fingerpri...
How green is your orange juice? A couple of years ago, PepsiCo, which owns the orange-juice brand Tropicana, tried to size up the carbon footprint of the popular morning tonic. It found that each half...
This Jan. 31, 2007 file photo shows Jimmy Nolan, of Yonkers, N.Y., who worked at at Ground Zero after the attack on the World Trade Center, displays the rash on his hands during a news conference at G...
Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba County Agricultural High School, is photographed Thursday, March 11, 2010, in Fulton, Miss., a day after the high school announced they wouldn't h...
MADRID, Spain (Associated Press) -- Miguel Delibes, an acclaimed and prolific novelist whose work featured gritty depictions of rural life in post-civil war Spain and psychological analyses of charact...
NEWARK, N.J. (Associated Press) -- Officials will discipline, but won't fire, a New Jersey airport guard who briefly left his post, triggering a security breach that delayed flights worldwide.The Tran...
NEW YORK (Associated Press) -- A police tow truck removed a minivan parked outside a New York City funeral home, giving its dearly departed passenger an unexpected side trip.NYPD spokesman Paul Browne...
FILE - Natalie Mejia attends the 2009 Teen Choice Awards in this Aug. 9, 2009 file photo taken in Universal City, California. Police say the member of the pop group Girlicious was arrested after Glend...
In this publicity image released by Fox, the 12 male finalists for the ninth season of the reality singing competetion, "American Idol," front row from left, Andrew Garcia, John Park, Tyler Grady, Joe...
LAS VEGAS -- Freshman guard Anthony Marshall led UNLV with 13 points and a season-best 12 rebounds and the Runnin' Rebels avenged Utah's regular-season sweep with a 73-61 victory in the Mountain West...
This 2009 photo released by Constance McMillen's family via The ACLU of Mississippi, taken in Fulton, Miss., shows Constance McMillen, 18, a student at the Itawamba County Agricultural High School. Th...
This 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010 that the agency is looking into the case of 26-year-old son, S...