Scientists have identified a gene on the extra chromosome causing Down syndrome that may be responsible for the early aging and cognitive defects in people with the condition, a finding that could lead to new treatments.
Follow the link to see some of the top performances for the week of Sept. 2-7.
The Affordable Care Act may put your health insurance network on a diet.
It’s still officially summer, yet major electronic companies have already announced a slew of holiday gift ideas: iPhones of different colors, video game players and a new category of wristwatches designed to mimic the functionality of smartphones.
CHICAGO — A judge sentenced a business traveler from suburban Chicago to nine months in prison Wednesday for groping a passenger in flight while she slept in a seat next to him. The victim later said she wished the punishment could have been harsher.
When it comes to bass fishing bragging rights and prize money in the Western U.S., it didn’t get any bigger or lucrative than this week’s competition on Lake Mead outside Las Vegas.
These children over here? The small group whose teacher has brought them outside? This is the world they know. The only one they’ve ever known. The one where we pay tribute and talk about heroes and say we will never forget.
Just because Floyd Mayweather Sr. wasn’t seen at Wednesday’s final news conference to promote Saturday’s junior middleweight title fight between his son Floyd Jr. and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, it doesn’t mean he wasn’t heard.
The publisher of the Reno Gazette-Journal said he was rethinking his newspaper’s paid obituary policy after someone submitted an obituary in which he or she accused a woman of child abuse and expressed happiness she had died.
A Clark County Detention Center corrections officer was injured Wednesday morning after being struck with a bat.
Follow the link for Southern Nevada’s top offensive performers as of Sept. 11.
A judge gave Richard Freeman Jr. the “glimmer of hope” he asked for Wednesday when she sentenced him to life in prison with the possibility of parole for his role in two 2010 murders. But District Judge Carolyn Ellsworth said she expects the defendant to be “a very old man” when, if ever, he is released from prison.
Color is all around us. It influences our moods and helps us express our personalities. Certain colors mark changes in season or bring holidays to mind.
An ex-lover of Liberace who was the subject of an HBO film on the life of the pianist got a lecture Wednesday from a judge who said he was not impressed with his “so-called celebrity status” but again agreed to spare him from prison time after testing positive for methamphetamine in violation of his probation.
“Less is more,” is a phrase from the 1855 poem “Andrea del Sarto, called ‘The Faultless Painter’” by Robert Browning. The phrase was adopted by the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), American-German architect, as a precept for minimalist design.
The mandatory federal budget cuts known as sequestration can best be described as penny wise and pound foolish. Sequestration slashed funding to U.S. attorneys’ offices without regard to the cost to public safety and the government’s bottom line. The current budget logic forgets that U.S. attorneys’ offices not only protect the public, but also collect more money on behalf of the American taxpayer than they spend.
A new computer system caused some of the articles in the Sept. 5 edition of Home and Garden to run incomplete. We are working to fix this problem to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.
Any well-run business understands the importance of having a back-up plan, of having contingencies in place when things go wrong. And any business with an ounce of savvy knows that when there is any type of computer system change, it’s best to have a contingency plan on top of the contingency plan.
Climbing Mount Fuji, Japan’s most iconic landmark, is a group activity: Seldom is it climbed in solitude. The recent recognition of the 3,776-meter (12,388-foot) peak as a UNESCO World Heritage site has many here worried that it will draw still more people, adding to the wear and tear on the environment from the more than 300,000 who already climb the mountain each year.
A shooting early Tuesday morning left one man dead, another wounded and one man in jail without bail, according to police. Las Vegas police responded to reports of gunfire near U.S. 95 and Jones Boulevard just after midnight.
A new study of 15 wild male orangutans finds that they routinely plot out their next day treks and share their plans in long calls, so females can come by or track them, and competitive males can steer clear.
The new stage version of “The Wizard of Oz” — launching its national tour at The Smith Center through Sunday, following an eight-month Toronto run — has almost everything else.
As bells tolled solemnly, Americans marked the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on Wednesday with the reading of the names, moments of silence and serene music that have become tradition.
A grizzly bear attacked a hunter more than 90 minutes after it had been wounded in Alaska by a Rhode Island hunter who was slashed in the head and body and taken by helicopter to a hospital, authorities said.
Officials at Boston’s Logan Airport are apologizing for holding a fire drill, complete with smoke and flames, on the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Walleye, also known as walleyed pike, pickerel, dore in French, or dory, is one of those wonderful freshwater fish found throughout the Great Lakes and other parts of the northern United States and parts of Canada. A relative of perch (personally, I’m partial to the tiny Lake Erie perch), it’s mild and sweet, can be prepared a variety of ways — and is pretty rare in Southern Nevada.