Cars drive through a flash flood after a brief but strong rain storm near Eastern and the 215 in Henderson earlier this afternoon. The storms caused the National Weather Service to issue a brief flood advisory for the Las Vegas area. The advisory was cancelled shortly after 4 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Scientists have created a new kind of artificial cornea, inserting a sliver of collagen into the eye that coaxes its own natural corneal cells to regrow and restore vision. It worked in a first-stage study of 10 patients in Sweden, researchers reported. And while larger studies are needed, it’s a step toward developing an alternative to standard cornea transplants that aren’t available in much of the world because of a shortage of donated corneas.
NEW YORK — Will Forte is leaving “Saturday Night Live” after eight seasons. Forte’s publicist Lewis Kay said Thursday that Forte is moving on from “SNL” “to pursue other opportunities.” The 40-year-old Forte starred in and co-wrote the “SNL” spinoff film “MacGruber,” which was released in May.
Nevada ranked first in residential foreclosures started and second in delinquencies at the end of the first half of 2010, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Thursday.
LONDON — Doctors who are atheist or agnostic are twice as likely to make decisions that could end the lives of their terminally ill patients, compared to doctors who are very religious, according to a new study in Britain.