When thieves stole 40 million credit and debit card numbers from Target customers during a massive data breach in 2013, the company eventually agreed to pay $10 million under a proposed settlement in a class-action lawsuit. Experts said that the incident could have been avoided if the company had adopted and implemented better data security measures, and the Department of Justice even looked into the matter.
Cliven Bundy and his fellow malcontents are back in the news, this time trying to rally support for Assembly Bill 408 that displays as much contempt for reality and the law as Bundy does himself.
To suggest any Duke basketball team over the past 25 years has flown under the national radar is to suggest Tom Brady can walk into any restaurant across the Northeast unnoticed.
She may have been nervous, but Las Vegas’ Morgan Goldstein managed to keep herself composed long enough to win the 2015 Drive, Chip & Putt skills competition Sunday at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga.
Duke has won five NCAA games by an average of 17.6 points in eliminating a 16 seed (Robert Morris), an 8 (San Diego State), a 5 (Utah), a 2 (Gonzaga) and a 7 (Michigan State).
The training table was hot dogs. The morning of the national championship game, he had a cream doughnut and a diet pop. There might have been one media member from a newspaper back home covering the game.
The nightclub and bar industry might be an unlikely place to find entrepreneurs catering to health-conscious consumers, but when any opportunity knocks, someone ususally tries to capitalize.
In theory, campaign donations and spending are public. But as one outside group’s spending in Henderson shows, it can be hard to figure out who’s really behind the money that fuels elections.
Left fielder Matt Holliday reached base three times and drove in two runs, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 3-0 Opening Night victory over the Chicago Cubs on Sunday at Wrigley Field.
Henderson police investigated an apparent suicide near the buffet at the M Resort early Sunday evening.
Rick Santorum says he’d hoped Indiana Gov. Mike Pence would veto the “fix” to his state’s religious freedom law rather than limiting its scope.
Instead of sometimes being forced to bolt out the door to feed the hungry parking meters in downtown Las Vegas, motorists are now able to pay up with a new smartphone app at some lots and on-street parking spots.
More than 30 “tough-on-crime” type bills under consideration in the Legislature this year could end up being tough on the pocketbooks of Nevada taxpayers as well, to the tune of millions of scarce general fund dollars
The pulse oximeter has become a common device in hospitals and health care settings to painlessly reveal blood oxygen levels.
The vehicle fire in an east valley apartment complex that killed two children Saturday evening was deemed accidental and no charges were going to be filed, Las Vegas police said Sunday.
A motorcyclist was killed after a crash with a pickup on U.S Highway 95 just south of Wagonwheel Drive Sunday afternoon, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
The German aviation authority did not know about co-pilot Andreas Lubitz’s medical background prior to the Germanwings crash that killed 150 people, it told Reuters on Sunday, raising more questions over medical oversight of pilots.
After months of rumors and back-and-forths, David Lynch has announced he will not be directing the “Twin Peaks” resurrection.
Vandals chose Easter to deface most — if not all — of the six churches in Incline Village, church leaders of the Northern Nevada town said Sunday.
One person was trapped in a vehicle and five others were hospitalized with injuries not believed to be life-threatening after a four-vehicle wreck near the intersection of Bonanza and Pecos roads, Las Vegas police said.
Rolling Stone magazine failed to follow basic journalistic safeguards in publishing a now-discredited story about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house, according to an outside review of the matter released on Sunday.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid might be retiring, but that isn’t stopping him from being provocative.
In a surprise move, Nevada’s fourth most populous city is looking at outsourcing its human resources department.
Francis, after saying Mass for thousands of people in a rainy St. Peter’s Square, delivered a mostly somber and grim “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world) message.
The Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend is in full swing at the Orleans. Organizers say they expect 20,000 people to attend the wide variety of events, which run through Sunday.
Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel played some weekend golf with his father in Shreveport, La., leading to speculation that he may be released soon from his rehab treatment.
Former Green Bay Packers running back Terdell Middleton died at the age of 59.
The young woman was washing clothes by the river, as many people in the Indian village of Thikariya Mubarak do, when the beast struck.
Police say a man fatally shot a woman near the Circus Circus in November after hearing voices in his head.
