“When my late husband, Richard, and I got married in Washington, D.C., in 1958, it wasn’t to make a political statement or start a fight. We were in love, and we wanted to be married.”
To understand why Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval faces no significant opposition for re-election, voters must look beyond his high approval ratings and his steady leadership in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Voters must look beyond his education reforms, which improved competition and accountability in Nevada’s underachieving public school system, beyond his work attracting new companies and new jobs.
A magnitude 7.4 underwater earthquake off the Pacific coast of El Salvador shook several Central American countries late Monday.
A pet parrot that spoke with a British accent when it disappeared from its home four years ago has been reunited with its owner — and the bird now speaks Spanish.
Our ten fingers and two palms are weapons of mass infection. They are responsible for the spread on many germs with very scary names. Consequently, hand washing with soap and water is one of the most important and easiest ways to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others. Let’s take a look at how we wage germ warfare.
The San Francisco 49ers have not been fazed by the soap opera involving their head coach and will go for their third consecutive victory when they visit the St. Louis Rams on Monday night in an NFC West matchup.
Julia Becker, a senior standout for Faith Lutheran”s girls golf team, says she”s learned to love the game. She”s the favorite to capture her second consecutive region title Tuesday when the Division I-A Southern Region tournament tees off at Boulder Creek Golf Course.
Colin Kaepernick and the San Francisco 49ers answered St. Louis’ fast start with a big finish. Kaepernick threw for 343 yards and three touchdowns, helping the 49ers erase an early 14-point deficit and beat the Rams 31-17 on Monday night.
Criticism of Clark County Family Services mounted Monday as the department released few details on what Las Vegas police are calling an apparent murder-suicide involving a man and a foster child in his care.
A 10-month-old girl trapped underneath the decomposing body of her father for up to three days could be released Monday afternoon from a Shreveport hospital, a deputy coroner said.
Speaking to supporters of higher education, Hillary Clinton Monday night urged the private business community to partner with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to help more young people earn college degrees that will give them more opportunity for higher paying jobs of the future.
Soon, friends and family of inmates at Clark County Detention Center won’t have to go downtown for visits — they’ll be able to do it from home by video chat.
Jose Ramirez scored two first-half goals Monday to help Legacy’s boys soccer team to a 2-1 win at Palo Verde.
The chief medical officer of a Las Vegas company could be meeting within days with the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about a monitoring device that could be a pivotal tool in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus.
Monica Willhite’s goal with 15 minutes left in the match Monday lifted Foothill’s girls soccer team to a 2-1 win at Basic.
Mountain View’s Kristine Horita is in fourth place after the first round of the Division III state golf tournament in Carson City.
The first thing you encounter at a new contemporary art show at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is the “Mom Booth,” where a woman in an apron sits at a table. She’s a real mom who gives advice, hugs and maybe a scolding.
The names of two officers involved in a fatal shooting last week have been released by North Las Vegas police. Officer Shane Forsberg, 30, has been with the department for seven years. Officer David Wells, 33, has been with the department for eight years. He wasn’t wounded in the incident.
A convicted murderer beat his mother to death during an argument, just two days after he was released from prison, authorities said.
A pawn shop owner was sentenced Monday to three years of probation for killing a man who attempted to rob his store in 2009.
The State Transportation Board on Monday unanimously approved a $70 million design-build project for State Highway 439, also known as USA Parkway east of Reno in Storey and Lyon counties.
UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis has won each of his past three times in the first round. He expects his first title defense, against Gilbert Melendez in UFC 181 on Dec. 6 at Mandalay Bay, to be another brief experience.
Authorities say a patient wanting out of an Arizona hospital used an ambulance as his getaway vehicle.
Federal health officials on Monday urged the nation’s hospitals to “think Ebola” and launched a review of procedures for treating patients, while medical records showed that an infected Texas nurse repeatedly visited the room of a Liberian man as he was dying from the disease.
Jennifer Cramblett and her wife, Amanda Zinkon, wanted a white baby. They went to the Midwest Sperm Bank near Chicago and chose blond, blue-eyed donor No. 380. When Cramblett was five months pregnant, they found out that she had been inseminated by donor No. 330 — a black man.
The recently-opened SLS Las Vegas laid off less than 2 percent of its workforce after evaluating its staffing needs, a spokesman for the property said Monday.
First the chefs of a small Italian restaurant got mad at online review site Yelp. Instead of trying to get better reviews, they decided to take a different approach: get terrible ones.
Las Vegas police are investigating a multi-vehicle crash on Buffalo Drive and Rochelle Avenue.
From “Saturday Night Live” spoofs to the wild theories of journalists across the globe trying to parse his five-week absence from the public eye, the 30-ish leader of North Korea has captured nearly as many headlines as he did when he threatened to nuke his enemies last year.