Leading the Hualapai Tribe through the fight with a Las Vegas developer who invested $30 million to build the Grand Canyon Skywalk attraction is Sherry Counts, a talkative 55-year-old chairwoman whose personal struggles led her to God and then politics.
LOS ANGELES — Grammy-winning musician Chris Brown’s neighbors are unhappy with the creepy art he’s chosen to have painted along the curb of his Hollywood Hills home.
BOSTON — Marc Fucarile lost his right leg above the knee in the Boston Marathon bombing, and doctors are still fighting to save his shattered left one. He has second- and third-degree burns and a piece of shrapnel lodged in his heart. He’s lost track of how many surgeries he’s had, with more still ahead.
WASHINGTON — When a mysterious, unauthorized fee appears on your cellphone bill, it’s called “cramming” and consumer advocates and regulators worry it’s emerging as a significant problem as people increasingly ditch their landlines for wireless phones.
WASHINGTON — A federal watchdog’s upcoming report says senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups in 2011.
LAKEPORT, Calif. — Scott and Robin Spivey had a sinking feeling that something was wrong with their home when cracks began snaking across their walls in March.
Las Vegas tourism numbers rose a tiny 0.1 percent in March, marking the first month of 2013 that didn’t see a decrease.
Six years, three fertility treatments and countless tears later, Ana Nicolas is finally what she wanted to be for so long — a mother.
A 28-year-old reputed pimp was indicted on charges he savagely beat and tortured women working in his Las Vegas prostitution ring.
ISLAMABAD — Pakistanis streamed to the polls Saturday, despite a string of attacks that killed 24 people, for a historic vote pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister and an unpopular incumbent.
NEW YORK — ABC is planning a spinoff of its fairytale drama “Once Upon a Time” for next season as well as an action-adventure series based on the Marvel Comics universe. That show, “S.H.I.E.L.D.,” comes from hit-maker Joss Whedon.
Year after year, the clock ticked by and the calendar marched forward, carrying the three women further from the real world and pulling them deeper into an isolated nightmare.
The Bureau of Land Management has terminated a deal for the purchase of 480 acres of federal land in Henderson once earmarked for an ambitious professional sports complex.
BEIJING — Authorities are investigating whether one of China’s top film directors has fathered seven children in violation of the country’s strict family planning laws, state media and a local official said Thursday.
WEST, Texas — Three days after a massive explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant, Bryce Reed climbed onto a coffee table at a local hotel where displaced families picked over donated sweatshirts and pizza. Wearing a navy blue shirt emblazoned with “West EMS,” he gathered the crowd close.
NEW YORK — NBC is ordering up a new comedy for next season from “Scrubs” creator Bill Lawrence and an updating of the ‘70s cop drama “Ironside.”
By all accounts, Monsignor Patrick Leary was the people’s clergyman. The CEO of Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada, who died in December at age 63, was honored April 25 during the charity’s Feast of Hope.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Think you’ve heard of every way possible to quit smoking? Etta Mae Lopez came up with a new one: slap a cop so you’ll go to jail, where smoking isn’t allowed.
DOSWELL, Va. — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in a cemetery in Virginia, infuriating some members of the area’s Islamic community who say they weren’t consulted and flooring at least one neighbor who said she didn’t even know she lived near a burial ground.
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — The Palestinians haven’t elected a president since 2005, but now they are finally getting a chance to do so — virtually — thanks to a hit reality TV show.
NEW YORK — Adorned with an American flag that flapped in the breeze, the last pieces of a silver spire were hoisted to the top of the World Trade Center on Thursday as construction workers cheered its ascent.
LONDON — Miles and Jimi. Jimi and Miles. Fans of the late trumpet and guitar masters have long known that Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans to record together in the year before Hendrix’s sudden death in 1970.
The Professional Bull Riders website lists Luke Snyder as being from Raymore, Mo., but that can’t be right.
People insure their homes, their cars and even their vacations without giving it a second thought. But many do not think about insuring their most important asset – their income – from a disability caused by illness or injury. And it’s not just income during working years that is at risk. A disability can also put a serious dent in your ability to enjoy retirement.
For the estimated 3.2 million Americans living with chronic hepatitis C, talking to a physician about treatment options for the disease now is an important first step. Untreated chronic hepatitis C may lead to serious health consequences, including cirrhosis – or permanent scarring of the liver – liver failure and liver cancer.
As people show more skin with the summer season, it is important to get into a skincare routine that fits your lifestyle. Extended time in the sun can result in unwanted wrinkles, blemishes and sagging skin, not to mention more serious consequences – melanomas, scarring and skin cancer.
There’s nothing like the smell of a home-cooked meal wafting through the kitchen for hours and hours – that is, if you have time to prepare such a meal. Since most of us don’t have that sort of time on a daily basis, many time-pressed cooks are rediscovering pressure cooking: an age-old cooking method that makes mealtime fast and easy.
