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This week, 51 amazing women gathered in Baton Rouge, La., to compete for the 2015 Miss USA crown. These are incredibly inspiring and accomplished women who are attending some of our nation’s best universities and pursuing careers.

We’ve seen this fight so many times before. Not this exact fight, of course, but ones with the same premise: two up-and-coming prospects, an electric striker versus a rugged wrestler. ...

Here’s the latest installment of the Play of the Day, which uses odds from the South Point. Our three sports writers started with ...

Sometimes, Conor McGregor would mimic the sound a game-show buzzer makes when a contestant misses a question. He’d respond with a simple “nope” at other moments. The featherweight superstar from Dublin occasionally threw in a complete sentence such as, “Is that all you got?” ...

Let’s create the setting for this in the headquarters of the Nevada System for Higher Education. I may have picked that one because it is where Chancellor Dan Klaich holds sway over Nevada’s public universities and community colleges. He has been under a little fire lately ...

Christian Wood signed a free-agent contract with the Houston Rockets and will try to carve a path to the NBA the same way as other recent forwards who left college with eligibility remaining. James Michael McAdoo (Warriors), Jabari Brown (Lakers) and Tarik Black (Rockets) all made NBA rosters last season despite not being selected in 2014, giving Wood hope his journey will include reaching the sport’s top league ...

Over the past two years, the union and county management have worked to find common ground on almost every issue but money. While the size of annual pay raises and the length of a new contract were major points of ...

No business can eliminate the risk of exposure to a lawsuit. The good news is that any business can significantly reduce its exposure with a risk mitigation strategy ...

This 50-year-old helicopter tour company flies over the entire Grand Canyon from Las Vegas and the Hoover Dam to Grand Canyon West ...

Michelle Shriver knows what it takes to land a job — and keep one. After rising to the position of senior vice president of Ameristar Casinos, she became regional developer at Patrice & Associates Hospitality Recruiting, which works with companies nationwide to find workers in the hospitality industry ...

This gin and tonic has been upgraded in all the right ways ...

The secret to establishing a brand is creating an emotional connection to the audience, and one of the best ways to do that is through customer service. “Be organized and mindful,” said Steve Nachwalter, principal of Nachwalter Consulting Group, a global management consultancy based in Las Vegas. “Make sure you understand the experience your customers are looking for, and make sure you are able to provide it to them. See your business through your customers’ eyes. If you can’t walk in their shoes... Читать дальше...

There's life outside the WSOP. The Sunday spoke to seven players whose live poker earnings combined add to more than $13 million. They shared their thoughts on the best Las Vegas spots for eating, drinking, relaxing and, of course, playing poker ...

For those in the disaster business, one nightmare involves radiation spewing from a ravaged nuclear power plant, a terrorist’s dirty bomb, the mishandling of nuclear waste, a transportation catastrophe or a scenario not yet imagined. So naturally a wave of anxiety spread across the Western states — especially Nevada and California — when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it was going to move — this weekend, in fact — one of its two Mobile Environmental Radiation Laboratories from Las Vegas to Montgomery... Читать дальше...

Being ready and prepared for injuries, both minor and serious, is key to keeping children safe. Maintaining a first-aid kit with all the necessary supplies gathered in one place can enable parents to act quickly if an incident occurs ...

The sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby had already severely damaged his career even before The Associated Press revealed this week that he admitted under oath in 2005 to obtaining quaaludes to give to young women he wanted to have sex with. But now even the hangers-on are walking away.

The NAACP has passed a resolution lifting its 15-year economic boycott of South Carolina, a day after that state took down a Confederate battle flag flying near its Statehouse.

It’s not the fight everyone wanted to see, but indications are that Chad Mendes vs. Conor McGregor will fare just fine at tonight’s UFC 189. Follow along with the Sun's round-by-round live blog from cageside at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. ....

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio called Russian President Vladimir Putin a criminal on Saturday in a presidential campaign speech less focused on foreign and domestic policy than recounting his parents' immigrant experience to voters in his childhood hometown.

Every few minutes, Becky Hammon would check some notes and then stuff the list back into her hip pocket. She huddled with her assistant coaches while scribbling up plays that she would show her team during timeouts. She paced the sidelines at times, maybe burning off a bit of nervous energy.

A body found in Henderson this morning is believed to be a homeless man's.

Archie Manning never really intended the football camp he founded two decades ago to become a magnet for future NFL quarterbacks.

A Maine man who travels the country to document the final resting places of poets has reached a milestone.

Greece's finance minister was struggling late Saturday to convince skeptical creditors that the Greek government can be trusted to deliver on its reform promises in exchange for a financial rescue package securing the country's future in the euro.

As negotiators at Iran nuclear talks labored to make headway, the country's supreme leader called Saturday for the struggle against the U.S. to continue, in comments suggesting that Tehran's distrust of Washington will persist no matter what the outcome of the talks.