German doctors say a man spent 15 years with a 4-inch pencil in his head following a childhood accident.
PHOENIX — A group trying to oust the polarizing sheriff of metropolitan Phoenix faces a Thursday deadline for handing in voter signatures in an uphill battle to force a recall election against the lawman.
The remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has recovered enough to walk and assured his parents in a phone conversation that he and his slain brother were innocent, their mother told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Russian researchers say they have discovered a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass with liquid blood on a remote Arctic island, fueling hopes of cloning the Ice Age animal.
WASHINGTON — Fewer Americans than forecast signed contracts in April to buy previously owned homes, indicating limited inventory is holding back further progress in the housing market.
As Christy Everson was nearing age 40, she made a decision: She wanted to have a child, even though she was single and it meant doing it all alone. Her daughter, conceived via a sperm donor, is now 2 1/2 years old, and Everson hopes to have a second child.
A deputy constable alleged to have forged marriage documents to a dead race car driver has resigned after being arrested Saturday morning at a Strip nightclub.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The president of Ohio State University said Notre Dame was never invited to join the Big Ten because the university’s priests are not good partners, joking that “those damn Catholics” can’t be trusted, according to a recording of a meeting he attended late last year.
TRUXTON, N.Y. — Authorities in upstate New York have identified the seven people killed when their van collided with a runaway trailer carrying crushed cars.
Gov. Brian Sandoval has signed a bill that removes archaic language from a 1950s law passed during the Cold War era of constant tension between the United States and the Soviet Union.
NEW YORK — A letter sent to the White House was similar to the poison-laced missives mailed to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and to his gun-control group in Washington, officials said Thursday.
PARIS — For centuries, there’s been no official French word for the sloppy Gallic export “to French kiss” — though that certainly hasn’t stopped any citizen from doing so.
Las Vegas student Amna Raza’s run in the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee came to an end Wednesday despite a perfect onstage performance.
A fuel spill from a tractor-trailer caused a shutdown on southbound Interstate 15 and Sahara around 6 a.m. Thursday morning.
Scotty’s Castle at Death Valley National Park is slated to reopen Thursday, one week after firefighters contained a wildfire on the grounds of the historic mansion.
Nevada’s corporate community got a big jolt Wednesday when the world’s best-known investor dropped a few billion bucks on the local power company.
Carnevale, a three-month celebration modeled after the street festivals of Italy, is under way at The Venetian and Palazzo.
Health inspectors who investigated the 2007 hepatitis C outbreak in Las Vegas believe the transmission from an infected patient to uninfected patients in two separate procedure rooms occurred when open vials of the anesthetic propofol were transferred from one room to the next.
Southern Nevada homeowners have until the end of this week to avoid paying penalties for residential construction and home improvement work completed without permits.
North Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man involved in a Wednesday bank robbery.
What becomes of old vehicle tires, especially large tires like those from a tractor trailer? Some companies have made recycling tires their business, collecting tires from major tire chains, department stores, auto dealers and service stations, and transforming them into rubber crumb. Other companies, like ECORE, use expired tires to make their own products.
The jet-set look is about glamor, glitz, fashion and, of course, travel. It’s the look designers are showcasing this summer to give women the feeling they’re living the relaxed and luxurious lifestyle of Cannes, St. Tropez, Capri or Palm Springs.
Summer vacation is an important American tradition. Traveling together gives families, couples and friends the opportunity to relax, bond and experience new places. Consider these four important points when you’re thinking about how you will fund this year’s summer vacation.
Looking to start your career – or change your current one? As you contemplate your next career move, there’s one industry that might not be on your radar: insurance.
British tough-guy Jason Statham is in town filming “Heat,” which co-stars Colombian hottie Sofia Vergara.
Bishop Gorman outfielder Kenny Meimerstorf was selected as the Gatorade Nevada Baseball Player of the Year.
Savannah Horvath’s usual aggressiveness at the plate all but went away in the final three weeks of her sophomore softball season at Centennial.
Preliminary results of Nevada’s 2013 big game tag draw have been available online since Friday, and final results will be available in another couple of weeks. Unfortunately, while some of my friends are celebrating the draw results with tags for critters such as bighorn sheep, deer, elk or antelope, things in the Nielsen household are little more subdued.
■ LAKE MEAD — Small stripers are providing anglers with good fishing, but larger fish have been tough to find. Cut baits and swim baits have proven successful in Government Wash, Crawdad Cove and 33 Hole. The catfish bite has been good in the Vegas Wash area and near Stewarts Point, also using cut baits.
Oh, no, a professional athlete has been suspended for conduct detrimental to the organization. And it involves a strip club, no less.