Jonathan Martin spent nearly seven hours going into “great detail” with the NFL counsel investigating his claims of his harassment in the Miami Dolphins’ locker room. What came up in their talks, he isn’t saying for now.
A new bid to pump money into building and repairing roads and bridges was launched in the U.S. Senate on Thursday.
The Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center will offer drive-up flu shots Saturday for veterans who are enrolled in the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System and have a VA identification card.
When a high school newspaper at a suburban Philadelphia football powerhouse decided the word “Redskins” had no place in its pages, the paper’s student editors found themselves called to the principal’s office.
Although the use of Indian names for sports teams isn’t a problem for some Native Americans in Las Vegas, others find it demeaning.
Joshua Levinson has had a tennis racket in his hand since he was a toddler. While his whole family played, he was the one who took it to the next level. By 13, he knew he wanted to make tennis a way of life. Now 22, he’s established the Josh Levinson Tennis Academy. It’s catch phrase is: “Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage, and I promise something great will happen.”
Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto is hailing a jury verdict that found a company knowingly made defective water and sewer pipes sold to dozens of municipalities and water districts across several states.
Authorities said Saturday that they’ve likely found the body of a Florida man who they say fell out of a private plane, three days into a land and sea search that included parts of the Atlantic Ocean near Miami.
Some simply pace the halls to kill time, something you would see in any hospital. But this is Lake’s Crossing Center, Nevada’s only maximum-security psychiatric facility.
Dozens of youths will gather at The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada at 6 p.m. Monday for the sixth annual Thanksgiving dinner.
The mementoes are everywhere, preserved for five decades by people who wish they could forget: Letters of grief and thanks, in a widow’s hand. An unwanted wedding band. A rose stained with blood.
Althea Mustacisa has struggled to live. But she has clung to life because her parents have been pushing oxygen into her tiny body with a hand-held pump non-stop ever since she came into this world. And “if they stop, the baby will die,” said Amie Sia, a nurse at a hospital in typhoon-wracked Tacloban city that is running without electricity and few staff or medical supplies.
In the decade since the highest court in Massachusetts issued its landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, 14 other states and the District of Columbia have legalized it, with Illinois poised to become the 16th in a few days.
Not that it’s a negative, but San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh has a huge ego. He’s out to win games, not friends, and does not care if he annoys people with his arrogance and combative attitude.
The organizers of Operation Christmas Child hope to reach a milestone this season by reaching their 1 millionth child. If they do, they’ll tackle the project the same way they always have: one shoe box at a time.
Before this week, the last time I heard from Shane Victorino’s people was July, during the All-Star break. One of his reps said Victorino, who makes his offseason home here, had just become the all-time RBI leader for a major league ballplayer born in Hawaii, thereby breaking Mike Lum’s record, and would I like to talk to him?
Patrick Littlejohn was 22 when he accidentally went swimming with Princess Diana and her kids.
They designed, built or marketed more than 23,000 hotel rooms, 40,000 homes, 15 master-planned housing communities and even a few prisons, schools, banks and grocery stores.
The mother of one of 19 wildland firefighters killed in north-central Arizona has filed a $36 million claim against the state, Yavapai County and the city of Prescott, saying their negligence led to the death of her son.
In a meeting on the eve of the tournament that served as the first Ultimate Fighting Championship card, one of the fighters asked a question that few in the room seemed prepared to answer: “Where are we allowed to bite?”
Downtown Project’s Container Park shopping center has reached 100 percent tenant capacity, filled with names old and new to the downtown area.
This season has been an unmitigated disaster for Florida. And unfortunately for coach Will Muschamp, it’s not over yet.
More than 200 ambitious runners will attempt to complete two Rock ’n’ Roll marathons on Sunday — at 7:30 a.m. in San Antonio and at 4:30 p.m. in Las Vegas. Beth Deloria likely will be the only one to do so despite foot drop — which is paralysis of the lower leg and foot.
Twenty months after state officials with the State Parks Division ousted volunteer docents at the Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, the state is welcoming them back to settle a court case.
Ming the Mollusk, the oldest clam ever found, was 507 years old, according to tests. But Ming died prematurely thanks to the scientists who determined the age.
This time of year, there is no shortage of holiday gift guides available to help you find the perfect gifts for your loved ones. Whether it’s your chocolate-loving aunt or fashion-forward sister, there is an art to selecting just the right things to put smiles on their faces.
The time-honored popularity of holiday cookie baking remains strong even in today’s grab-and-go society.
It’s a phone call that most parents can’t imagine receiving. Your school’s principal has requested a meeting because your child is being suspended or expelled … for bullying. While some parents might look at bullying as a part of growing up, in fact it actually has reached epidemic proportions across the country. More than 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year, according to DoSomething.org, a social issues advocacy group. Every day, nearly 160,000 children miss school because they are scared of being bullied, notes the National Education Association. What’s more, many incidents of bullying go unreported because kids are afraid to report them.
As smartphones and tablets are more frequently finding their way into kids’ hands, many parents may wonder about the implications of increased screen time, and question what role traditional toys should play in their children’s lives.
As the medical community and many Americans come to accept the use of marijuana to treat a range of diseases and symptoms, state legislators are working to keep pace with laws concerning marijuana for medical use.