Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man they said was responsible for several robberies in the valley.
A picture of an essay from a athlete at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill is circling the internet. It’s full of grammatical errors and only 146-words long, but it earned the athlete an A-.
Prepare to be transported to an era when staying in a hotel was considered exotic, romantic, even something of an adventure, and not just another sleepless night because you can’t stop worrying about the potential for bedbugs or who did what to whom on that bedspread that keeps brushing up against your lower lip.
Question: Our Spanish dagger yucca was doing great, but it’s leaning badly now. There are pups coming from the base. Is this normal?
Suds and more suds: The second annual Boulder City BeerFest is on tap Saturday in the city’s Wilbur Square Park. More than 20 craft beer tents, five food trucks and 10 specialty vendors will be on hand to serve up to 1,000 beer lovers. General-admission tickets, which permit entry at 3 p.m., are $30 in advance; VIP tickets, which allow 1 p.m. entry, are $45 in advance. A limited number of tickets will be available at the gate for $60 VIP, $40 general admission. The price of admission covers a 5-ounce souvenir glass and unlimited beer samples, until the event ends at 7 p.m. For advance tickets and details, visit www.BoulderCityBeerfest.com. …
A few weeks ago, when he nearly won the Kobalt 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with a risky fuel strategy, Dale Earnhardt Jr. pretty much said it was new NASCAR rules rewarding race winners that was responsible for an exciting finish. Today at Martinsville, Va., he pretty much backtracked on that.
Religious leaders say Pope Francis has quietly started a new era in relations between the Roman Catholic Church and rival Pentecostals. And he did it with just an iPhone and a video greeting.
Springtime in Zion National Park is all about renewal. The deciduous trees are putting on leaves, the wildflowers are starting to bloom and the usually dry cliff faces have turned into bases for waterfalls. The best aspect of this scenario is that you can see it up close about 2 1/2 hours from Las Vegas.
Las Vegas tourism is two-for-two so far in 2014. Year-to-date visitation rose 5.8 percent in February, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. In all, 6.5 million people have come to the city this year, up from the 6.2 million who came at this point in 2013.
Almost a year to the day after he had surgery to remove his gall bladder, a kidney, some lymph nodes and 35 percent of his liver, stage four cancer survivor Chris Kushneriuk made his long-awaited return to professional hockey with the Wranglers.
There is just nothing that’s right about the campaign spending scandal now enveloping Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Australian officials moved the search area for the lost Malaysian jetliner 680 miles to the northeast Friday following a new analysis of radar data, and planes quickly found multiple objects in the new zone.
A tweet that was sent from The Colbert Report show’s Twitter account on Thursday sparked accusations of racism towards the show and began a #CancelColbert hashtag that spread like wildfire.
Billionaire Howard Hughes backed a medical school in Las Vegas in the late 1960s, but Southern Nevadans still are waiting more than 40 years later. The way Robert Lang sees it, that school could finally arrive as early as 2016.
Nick Fiore is a member of an exclusive club of specialists in Las Vegas, and it’s a passion driven by a love of children. Fiore, 50, is one of the region’s four pediatric general surgeons. He came to Las Vegas in 1998 to launch his career, 12 years after he entered college as a freshman.
After 25 years, Southern Nevada’s longest-running arts organization is folding. The Contemporary Arts Center’s board of directors has voted to dissolve the organization, effective April 5, citing finances, lack of long-term exhibition space and community needs.
Unless you’re one of those dog owners who just lets their little furballs run wild and poo wherever they please, you have to walk them sometime. So why not do it for a good cause?
Medical schools produce two types of doctors, and when Roseman University opens its medical school in Summerlin in 2017, it will offer a different degree than graduates now get from Southern Nevada’s other medical school, Touro University in Henderson.
How extreme a thing is Extreme Thing? We’ve developed a handy rating system to measure each band’s level of extremeness. Let’s find out, shall we?
Roseman University has come a long way from its humble beginnings. It started in 1999 in Henderson with $15,000 and 900 square feet when the private, nonprofit institution started what was then the Nevada College of Pharmacy.
Most people think of the University of Nevada School of Medicine as Reno’s medical school because it’s on the UNR campus, but administrators there say Las Vegas is a key component, and it should be viewed as a statewide school.
Regulations establishing the rules for opening medical marijuana dispensaries in Nevada were approved by the Legislative Commission without comment Friday.
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Microsoft has released an iPad version of its popular Office software suite, a breakthrough heralding a new era under a CEO who promises to focus more on the devices that people are using instead of trying to protect the company’s lucrative Windows franchise.
When they hear the popular refrain that “the best way to get good health care in Las Vegas is by going to McCarran International Airport,” community leaders realize they have a problem. That’s behind a drive to create a four-year medical school at UNLV.
Americans barely increased their spending in February following a weak January performance, strong evidence that the severe winter will hold back the economy in the first quarter. Consumer spending rose 0.3 percent following an even weaker 0.2 percent rise in January, the Commerce Department reported.
Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Melissa McCarthy and the living legend Clint Eastwood take the Colosseum stage as the convention draws to a close.
Even the dean of Nevada’s largest medical school acknowledges it flies under the radar of the public. But to those saying Southern Nevada needs a medical school, Mitchell Forman has an answer: It already has one. Touro University in Henderson, since 2004.