Parents waiting to pick up their children at Las Vegas High School on Thursday afternoon expressed concern and disgust with a teacher recently arrested for sexual misconduct with a student.
A lawyer for a Henderson man infected with hepatitis C suggested that two drug companies should pay more than $1 billion for failing to take steps that could have prevented Southern Nevada’s hepatitis C outbreak.
Jumping on a hot election-year issue, U.S. Senate candidate Chad Christensen on Thursday launched a ballot initiative that would impose an Arizona-like law in Nevada, giving authorities the right to question and arrest suspected illegal immigrants in certain cases.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. narrowed its loss in the first quarter, driven by strong revenue increases in Macau, the company announced Thursday.
WASHINGTON — We have met Neanderthal and he is us – at least a little. The most detailed look yet at the Neanderthal genome helps answer one of the most debated questions in anthropology: Did Neanderthals and modern humans mate? The answer is yes, there is at least some cave man biology in most of us. Between 1 percent and 4 percent of genes in people from Europe and Asia trace back to Neanderthals.
SUFFERN, N.Y. — Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor was arrested Thursday in connection with a reported rape in the New York City suburbs, police said.
For the second straight year, gaming revenues produced by nation’s commercial casino industry tumbled as the recession caused gamblers to watch their wallets more closely.
NASHVILLE, TENN. — Amanda Fatheree had about an hour to flee the floodwaters from her west Nashville home Sunday with her husband, mother and three young children. What she saw when she returned a day later left her heartbroken.