On Sept. 17, 1787 — 226 years ago exactly — our Founding Fathers adopted the original seven articles of the Constitution, hoping and praying their ideas for a republic would endure into a future they could not know or even understand. They relied upon a keen understanding of human nature, reduced to writing timeless principles knowing that time would bring changes and necessary amendments to what they had done.
Comparisons to UFC champion Jon Jones have been made throughout Alexander Gustafsson’s six-fight winning streak and his rise through the light heavyweight ranks.
Authorities say a human foot in a running shoe has washed ashore on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach with no sign of the rest of the body.
Two people are dead after a two-car crash involving a semitrailer on Interstate 15 near St. Rose Parkway Monday night.
Millions of dollars funneled to support English language learners, the state’s new Common Core standards and a new mandatory teacher evaluation system were what experts debated Monday during a community conversation about education.
A quarter of Nevada’s 604 public schools were downgraded by the Nevada Department of Education on Monday for students’ performances in the 2012-13 school year, but State Superintendent Dale Erquiaga asserted that it’s not because students are falling further behind.
There are so many lessons in this story that you might rightly think of it as a parable. It draws a direct connection between a multinational corporation, cupcakes, circus performers and pirates.
Caleb Herring may or may not start at quarterback against Western Illinois on Saturday. Coach Bobby Hauck said he would evaluate Herring and Nick Sherry this week in practice, and likely will make the determination on game day.
A former boardinghouse where seven bodies were found in the yard in 1988 has become a tourist destination. The rented Victorian duplex in Sacramento was operated by Dorothea Puente.
The sentencing of former power broker Harvey Whittemore was put off one week to give the defense more time to prepare.
The new Miss America says she is “first and foremost” an American after facing a slew of racist comments aimed at her Indian heritage.
Network television’s latest end-of-the-world conspiracy show premiers Monday at 9 p.m.
Nevada Task Force 1 arrived in Loveland, Colo., Sunday afternoon and hit the ground running, setting up camp and deploying a 45-member team for rescue missions.
A Las Vegas judge set bail at $60,000 for a 25-year-old man charged with attacking Clark County jail guards with a baseball bat last week.
Nevada’s image is growing through the Forbes 400 List of the Richest People in America.
A 19-year-old man who claimed to be the leader of a small Nevada militia and arrested by federal anti-terrorism agents last year pleaded guilty Monday to a firearms charge.
Few local residents have the time to read local government meeting agendas and backup materials. Even fewer have the desire to study such documents to learn about proposed ordinances, expenditures, contracts, licenses and permits.
A homeless Boston man who police said turned in a backpack containing tens of thousands of dollars in cash and traveler’s checks said even if he were desperate he wouldn’t have kept “even a penny.”
U.S. Highway 95 northbound at Charleston Boulevard was closed for more than an hour Monday morning after two vehicles caught fire.
MGM Resorts International has announced that the renovation of The Hotel at Mandalay Bay into the Delano Las Vegas has been pushed back several months because the design phase has taken longer than originally anticipated.
An unarmed man seeking help after a car crash over the weekend was shot 10 times by the Charlotte police officer who’s now charged in his death, investigators said Monday.
A potential federal shutdown looming, President Barack Obama on Monday warned congressional Republicans they could trigger national “economic chaos” if they demand a delay of his health care law as the price for supporting continued spending for federal operations.
Using a vast system of steel cables and pulleys, maritime engineers on Monday gingerly winched the massive hull of the Costa Concordia off the reef where the cruise ship capsized near an Italian island in January 2012 and were poised to set it upright in the middle of the night.
Careful not to blame either side for a deadly chemical weapon attack, U.N. inspectors reported Monday that rockets loaded with the deadly nerve agent sarin had been fired from an area where Syria’s military has bases, but said the evidence could have been manipulated in the rebel-controlled stricken neighborhoods.
