Certain current or former heavy smokers should start getting yearly scans for lung cancer to cut their risk of death from the nation’s top cancer killer, government advisers said Monday — even as they stressed that the tests aren’t for everyone.
Q: My dishwasher has finally gone to the appliance graveyard. I thought I’d buy a new one and install it myself. It looks pretty easy. Is it?
Crowds descend on Fremont Street for a New Year’s Eve party to welcome 2013.
The UNLV women’s basketball team trailed by as many as 25 points before losing 79-63 to Fresno State on Wednesday in the Mountain West opener for both teams at Cox Pavilion.
Samsung said a 110-inch TV that has four times the resolution of standard high-definition TVs is going on sale for about $150,000 in South Korea.
Bill O’Brien is leaving Penn State less than two years after replacing Joe Paterno and returning to the NFL with the Houston Texans to coach the worst team in the league.
Tucked in a remote corner of Clark County, the Goodsprings Township constable is struggling to keep his office’s financial affairs in order, and even fired one of his employees for suspected embezzlement in 2012, county records show.
Forget whether Hillary Clinton could win the White House in 2016. Women still have yet to run many statehouses, but in 2014 two Texas Democrats are going for a new kind of history: Winning as an all-female ticket.
At least one person was injured after a shooting about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday on Jones Boulevard near Spring Mountain Road, Las Vegas police records show.
As festive floats marched down this Southern California city’s streets in the 125th Rose Parade on New Year’s Day, a heavy police presence ringed the revelry in the aftermath of tragedy at another high-profile event.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of shareholder complaints against several current and former officers and directors of MGM Resorts International over construction of the CityCenter project in Las Vegas.
Just minutes north of Las Vegas sits the largest national wildlife refuge outside of Alaska, but the welcome to visitors has long been understated, to say the least.
The nation’s first recreational pot industry opened in Colorado on Wednesday, kicking off an experiment that will be followed closely around the world and one that activists hope will prove that legalization is a better alternative than the costly American-led drug war.
Before she died in December 1925, the Washoe Indian basket maker called Dat So La Lee insisted that she should be buried with one of her baskets. Today her baskets fetch from $200,000 up to $1 million, if you can find them.
Follow the link for the schedules and results (when available) for the boys and girls basketball tournaments being held in Southern Nevada from Jan. 1-4, 2014.
Mark Lerner admits he didn’t know much about gaming when he moved to Las Vegas in 1980 to begin his legal career. Now, 34 years later, he considers himself “the most investigated and licensed person on planet Earth” by casino regulators worldwide.
The great Michael Schumacher, fighting for life, because of a skiing accident? That doesn’t add up. He even was wearing a helmet.
Former first lady Barbara Bush has been hospitalized in Houston with a respiratory-related issue, her husband’s office said Tuesday night.
Dave Martin, a longtime Associated Press photographer based in Montgomery, Ala., died after collapsing on the Georgia Dome field after the Chick-fil-A Bowl on Tuesday night.
North Texas head coach Dan McCarney is 60, and in a 14-month span in 2012 and 2013, he suffered a major stroke and underwent quadruple bypass surgery but returned to work five days after the latter procedure. That’s him. Tough as nails and a little wacko.
Pope Francis, laying out his hopes Wednesday for the just-begun year, urged people to work for a world where everyone accepts each other’s differences and where enemies recognize that they are brothers.
About half of Americans expect 2014 to be a better year than 2013, according to the recent AP-Times Square New Year’s Eve poll.
The Supreme Court has thrown a hitch into President Barack Obama’s new health care law by blocking a requirement that some religion-affiliated organizations provide health insurance that includes birth control.
The new year in Las Vegas may have been ushered in by the costumed – Cookie Monster, Jack Sparrow, Captain America, Elvis and risqué policewomen – but the lederhosen were real.
Having a winning season three times in 20 years doesn’t give you much to get excited about. But this season was exciting.
When it comes to home decorating, texturing can do for your walls what a good coat of wax can do for your car’s finish – hide a host of flaws. Poorly patched holes, uneven sheetrock, ugly wallpaper and even multiple layers of peeling paint can all be hidden beneath a beautiful layer of texture.
Winter is in full swing, and with the magical season come the potentially unpleasant snow, ice and slippery conditions that can make driving a challenge. But, even in this less-than-ideal driving weather, Americans are ready to take on what Mother Nature throws their way. Even though 63 percent of Americans say icy roads are their top winter driving concern, 76 percent also say they are comfortable driving in snow, according to Hankook Tire’s Winter Gauge Index.
Revelers welcome 2014 in Las Vegas on the Strip and downtown at the Fremont Street Experience.
Police worked to control the crowds as party-minded locals and tourists flocked to the Strip for New Year’s Eve in one of the quietest celebrations in recent memory.
Some images with a unique “Vegas” quality caught our eye as Las Vegas rang in the New Year.