The name of a girl who died of injuries suffered recently in the crash-landing of an Asiana Airlines flight in San Francisco has emerged early Saturday.
CHICAGO — Kris Bryant, like many before him, hopes he can help the Chicago Cubs become a winner.
There are some new rock-and-rollers in Las Vegas. Rockstar Club at the School of Rock is free for special needs children ages 10 to 18 thanks to a $10,000 grant from The Avril Lavigne Foundation obtained by Easter Seals Nevada.
Russian immigration officials said Saturday they have not received an application from Edward Snowden, the U.S. National Security Agency leaker who wants to get asylum in Russia.
When Lindsay Lohan gets out of rehab this summer, Oprah Winfrey will be waiting to talk to her.
Republican lawmakers passed a bill that would give Texas some of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws and force most of its clinics to close, leading Democrats to promise a fight over the contentious measure in the courts at the ballot box.
America’s baby boomers first came on the scene in 1946. They’ve been turning the world on its head ever since. Known as the country’s greatest generation for leading change, baby boomers make up roughly 29 percent of the United States’ total population – at about 79 million people. Over the years they’ve reinvented almost everything about the way America lives – from the music we listen to, to the cars we drive, to the technology we rely upon, to the way we age.
Despite common misconceptions, anyone – regardless of gender, weight or fitness level – can develop obstructive sleep apnea, a life-threatening condition characterized by episodes of complete or partial airway obstruction during sleep.
One of the most horrifying images of last baseball season was of a rocket shot of a line drive that struck then-Oakland Athletics pitcher Brandon McCarthy in the head.
Las Vegas and Phoenix are the largest adjacent metropolitan areas in the United States not directly connected by an interstate highway. That fact alone is enough to justify the construction of a major freeway between the population centers and their more than 6 million residents.
Gretchen Rossi says people should “run” from the idea that it’s an American dream to be famous on TV, because it’s no “bowl of cherries.”
To the editor: Lately, I’m seeing more and more letters to the editor regarding the perception that Americans are losing their freedoms, and I have seen the word “tyranny” used more than once. People who think we are living under tyranny today need to study the laws of yesterday.
Elijah Johnson would love to be Chris Paul’s backup at point guard. But he’s not the only player auditioning for the job.
It’s a test of endurance, both mental and physical, when 12-hour days begin piling up at the poker table. Sarah Herzali was feeling it Friday night.
I dare not show my face at the Red Velvet Cafe after outing Chef Aneesha Tolani’s claim that her cookies were a minuscule 27 calories, instead of the 157 calories an independent analysis showed.
It was late in the third quarter, and as he dribbled upcourt, Matt Dellavedova saw a Cleveland Cavaliers teammate headed to the basket who appeared to be open.
The Texas Senate passed sweeping new abortion restrictions late Friday, sending them to Republican Gov. Rick Perry to sign into law after weeks of protests and rallies that drew thousands of people to the Capitol and made the state the focus of the national abortion debate.
Rain gets some credit for dousing flames on Mount Charleston this week, but work in the woods long before lightning sparked the blaze might have minimized its ferocity.
The Nevada Legislature’s Assembly Bill 300 was supposed to be a panacea for an ailing housing market.
Charles Winston has been left with the sad duty of burying his stepson, a 23-year-old who was slain while trying to help another man jump-start his car in the northwest Las Vegas Valley.
The middle-aged surfer dude with a purple dress shirt hanging over his jeans strolled around the NBA Summer League court at noon Friday, schmoozing with everyone from New York Knicks broadcaster Mike Breen to assistant general managers such as Wes Wilcox of the Atlanta Hawks.
A San Francisco Bay Area TV station has apologized after reporting bogus names of the four pilots aboard Asiana Airlines flight 214 that were a play on Asian names.
They want gardens because if they binge on candy, they can reverse their sugar highs by crunching on veggies. They want to be healthy, attract bees and animals, and beautify their surroundings. They want strawberries.
KINGMAN, Ariz.— A suspect in a 2011 Lake Havasu City homicide was arrested in California, according to Arizona authorities.
Green Valley Presbyterian Church, 1798 Wigwam Parkway, Henderson, will present “Jonathan Gorst: An Evening of Music” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. A goodwill offering will be accepted to benefit Henderson Presbyterian Church food bank (454-8484).
A former Nellis Air Force Base officer was awarded nearly $1 million this month for blowing the whistle on a contract-steering scam involving a middleman in Florida and an engineering company hired to develop anti-terrorism techniques for a now-defunct warfare unit at the base.
Flash floods with four feet of water hit the Harris Springs area of Mount Charleston Friday, but have not reached Kyle Canyon Road, according to Las Vegas police spokesman Bill Cassell.
A faulty swamp cooler was blamed for a fatal fire Friday in north Kingman, Ariz.
The government has halted its review of a multibillion-dollar loan request for high-federal speed rail line connecting Las Vegas and Southern California, a potentially staggering hit to the ambitious project.
With police and civic leaders urging calm, a jury began deliberating George Zimmerman’s fate Friday after hearing dueling portraits of the neighborhood watch captain: a cop wannabe who took the law into his own hands or a well-meaning volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin because he feared for his life.