The death of a New Jersey man who set himself on fire on the National Mall was the result of his long fight with mental illness, not a political statement, his family said.
It’s been more than a year since Orlando Cruz came out of the closet and announced he is gay. And while Cruz being boxing’s lone openly gay fighter is not the news it was a year ago, it’s still part of him and always will be.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the man who died Monday morning after crashing his vehicle near the intersection of Desert Inn and Sandhill roads.
The NFL is prepared to meet with an Indian tribe pushing for the Washington Redskins to drop the team’s nickname. Just not this week.
A lot of musicians perform in Las Vegas nightclubs instead of concert venues because they don’t have to sell tickets or take big productions to clubs. They just sing and cha-ching. Akon tells me club gigs are great for a better reason than money.
Penn National Gaming will begin the spinoff its real estate holdings into a separate public company this month, the casino operator and owner of M Resort told investors last week.
It’s a turkey. It’s a menorah. It’s Thanksgivukkah!
When I got out of bed Monday, the Athletics and Tigers were getting ready to play a baseball game, in October, in broad daylight — or at least under a cloudy sky — in Detroit.
Michael McDonald’s re-election as chairman of the state Republican party over establishment favorite Robert Uithoven provides fresh evidence of the GOP’s infighting. It’s not a graceful start with so much opportunity at stake.
The enduring ability to inspire wonder and awe, and to weather the rigors of time, Mother Nature and human politics – these are the qualities that elevate an engineering feat to landmark status. These attributes have drawn millions to the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Great Wall of China and the Eiffel Tower over the centuries. In 2014, admiring eyes will surely turn to Central America, as the year marks the 100th anniversary of the Panama Canal.
In the U.S., nearly half of all women older than 50 will experience an osteoporosis-related fracture. And while osteoporosis may seem like a disease that only affects people later in life, early prevention is key to better bone health. In fact, bone mass attained early in life may be the most important determinant to bone health when you get older.
The Clark County Commission meeting was packed with police officers in uniform and plainclothes and plenty of civilians, too.
Give Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins credit for being right about a couple of things.
Choreographers take dancers out of their comfort zone, but Nevada Ballet Theatre and Cirque du Soleil make collabortion look effortless in its sixth year.
If Demian Maia can beat Jake Shields in his hometown of Sao Paulo on Wednesday, he will be on the verge of title contention in the UFC welterweight division.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday issued a public health alert for raw chicken packaged at three Foster Farms facilities in California as an estimated 278 people have fallen ill in the past six months.
Behind the scenes, a talented UNLV basketball team was torn apart. Carlos Lopez-Sosa was unhappy and unsure if he wanted to be a part of it anymore. He was falling apart, too.
Two people were hospitalized after a gang-related shooting in West Las Vegas Monday night, Las Vegas police said.
The Nevada and Arizona departments of transportation will host five public meetings this month to discuss alternatives for the development of an interstate freeway link between Las Vegas and Phoenix.
More than 200 people have been tested for tuberculosis and that number could double as the Southern Nevada Health District widens its investigation into a case of the infectious disease that killed a mother and her child, who died at a Las Vegas hospital.
Andre Agassi’s Box Budd!es are a result of a partnership between the Andre Agassi Foundation for Education and V20 Foods, a private-label food manufacturing company based in Birmingham, Mich. But this partnership isn’t for profit, at least on Agassi’s side.
Karen S. Matthews died in her dorm room in Faiman Residence Hall on Sept. 5, according to the coroner’s office. She died from natural causes related to diabetes.
Jay Scrivner, a 45-year-old college English teacher, was waiting for waves off the Northern California coast near his hometown of Eureka on Sunday morning after surfing for about two hours when a great white he estimated at about 8-to-9 feet long bit his thigh and board.
UNLV officials on Monday launched their attempt at building Stadium 2.0 with their new strategy firmly in place — a partnership between the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the Las Vegas casino-hotel industry.
A foster mother in northwest Arizona has agreed to a plea deal in the accidental drowning death of a 8-month-old boy.