A new study shows the failure rate for drugs recently developed to treat Alzheimer’s disease was a woeful 99.6 percent, with “disturbingly few new drugs in the pipeline.” The disease is expected to leave millions of baby boomers with dementia in the next few decades.
Nevada, buckle up. Over the next few months, you’ll learn how much your health insurance premiums will go up for next year. The early evidence isn’t good — the percentage increase could be in double digits.
U.S. District Judge Anna Brown last week ruled the federal government’s “no-fly” list, originally created to prevent another 9/11, was unconstitutional. The list accused 20,000 people — including 500 Americans — of having links to terrorism and banned them from traveling on commercial airline flights.
Luis Martinez delivered a two-out, two-run double in the top of the ninth inning as the Salt Lake Bees rallied past the Las Vegas 51s 10-9 in a Pacific Coast League game at Cashman Field on Wednesday night.
Among this week’s event highlights: Bob Miller plans a signing, and Monica Hatley-Carr plans a children’s program.
Back in the olden days, the ballet, symphony and a handful of theater companies toiled throughout the typical September-through-May season and struggled to survive.
A lot of people forget — or have tried to forget — that George Foreman once fought five guys on the same night.
Even though he always maintained a goal of resuming his professional mixed martial arts career, Stefan Struve admits there were days he had his doubts.
The Outdoor Picture Show on the Green and picnic and movie events at area libraries are among Henderson happenings this week.
Events this week include a Barbershop Harmony Society convention and competition and a Ward 5 Coffee with the Councilman.
A man died after a shooting in the parking lot of an east valley grocery store Wednesday night, Las Vegas police say. Officers responded just before 9 p.m. to the Food 4 Less at Sahara Avenue and Nellis Boulevard. They found a man dead of a gunshot wound, Lt. Barb Schmidt said.
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North Las Vegas leaders tabled a medical marijuana licensing ordinance Wednesday, delaying final action on a package of rules aimed at luring pot growers to APEX Industrial Park.
Navy veteran Ron Deanne of Henderson in June retraced steps that Army Pvt. Ed Jennings took 70 years ago on Utah Beach, where Jennings fought during World War II.
A former worker at the Spring Valley Montessori was charged Wednesday in federal court with receiving and possessing child pornography.
One of the famous landmarks in Grants Pass is a large sign hovering over the city’s downtown proclaiming, in big white letters: “It’s the Climate.”
German law says that you need two operating hand brakes on a bike to ride it on the street. Tell that to the man with one arm.
Attorney general candidate Adam Laxalt, a former judge advocate general in the Navy, on Wednesday proposed setting up a new division in Nevada’s top law enforcement office to offer free legal services to active duty members of the military, reservists and veterans.
A North Las Vegas man who gained media attention when his wife gave birth to quintuplets last fall is scheduled for a February trial in an alleged real estate scheme.
Henderson police are seeking two armed men who robbed a Subway late Monday night.
A federal judge refused to issue an injunction Wednesday that would have prevented the city of Las Vegas from enforcing new ordinances that target packaged liquor sales on Fremont Street.
Additional charges have been filed against a 40-year-old man who was arrested last month on charges of sexual misconduct with children. Bryan Hargrave also will face new charges of using a minor to produce pornography and possession of pornography involving a minor.
What started as neighborhood kids decorating bicycles with red, white and blue and riding along local streets has since evolved into bigger wheels, vibrant colors, and an expected audience of 35,000 for this year’s Fourth of July.
BRAINtrust Marketing + Communications, one of Las Vegas’ biggest public relations and advertising agencies, has merged with Scott & Co., a creative design and digital agency formerly known as 1010 Collective.
Emergency officials are ordering a mandatory evacuation of a fragile barrier island along North Carolina’s Outer Banks as Tropical Storm Arthur approaches. Dare County officials said Wednesday that the mandatory evacuation of Hatteras Island would begin at 5 a.m. Thursday. After that time, no one will be allowed on the island.
Authorities are scaling back their search for a Phoenix man who fell into the Colorado River while on a rafting trip in Grand Canyon National Park. Park Service officials said Wednesday there is no sign of 68-year-old Victor Tseng, who was last seen on June 27 below Havasu Rapids.
