John Boehner, the Ohio Republican who steered his party to an overwhelming House majority in 2010, said in a news conference Friday afternoon he had decided only that morning to announce his plans to resign from Congress.
Fans will have to wait a bit for the new James Bond film, but at least they can listen to the theme song.
The United States has the highest teen pregnancy and birth rates in the developed world. What’s more shocking is that certain Clark County ZIP codes have some of the highest birth rates in the world.
During its first year the Life is Beautiful festival drew 60,000 people; the total swelled to 90,000 last year, and projections for this weekend’s event in downtown Las Vegas have reached 120,000 over three days. How do you feed that many people?
About 300 families facing hunger in Las Vegas were given nutritious food at a Three Square Food Bank mobile food pantry distribution Sept. 17 sponsored by Amerigroup Nevada.
A county clerk in Kentucky who was briefly jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples said on Friday that she and her family have switched to the Republican Party because the Democrats no longer represented them.
A curious effect takes hold of many Las Vegas Valley children who participate in the Bright Futures Farm and Gardens program.
Outdoor kitchens are getting fancy, and expensive.
At a time when golf courses across the country are losing their greens, Discovery Land’s Summit golf community within Summerlin is taking root.
Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz already has the perfect nickname for his dream job. Asked to complete a seemingly innocuous “What the (Blank)?” questionnaire for Derek Jeter’s The Player’s Tribune website, Big Papi wrote that his dream job (if he wasn’t an athlete) would be a porn star.
To sign up for the right plan for the iPhone 6S or 6S Plus (on sale Friday), you have to understand your own cell phone habits, and figure out what’s most important to you first.
While children are getting a jump on their education at Kiddie Academy, their parents can pop in any time to check on their progress — either in person or via a few swipes and taps on their mobile devices.
Police in Southern California have arrested a high school student who was caught on video appearing to strike a visually impaired classmate, before he himself was punched to the ground by another student, authorities said.
Las Vegas resident Susan and her mother spent years caring for her father, Gary, who lived with psychosis as a result of Parkinson’s disease.
Here’s a look at some of Friday’s most interesting high school football games.
View features photos of pets ready for adoption each week. Contact each individual agency for more information.
Black Mountain Institute City of Asylum resident writer Hossein Mortezaeian Abkenar is scheduled to share a night of discussion with readers through an interpreter as part of a program titled Unsilenced: Censorship, Iran and the Contemporary Novelist in Exile.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been indicted for murder in a cross-border shooting of a Mexican teenager in 2012 in what an attorney for the victim’s family on Thursday called an unprecedented move.
A psychiatric patient who shot and killed his caseworker before exchanging gunfire with his doctor in a Philadelphia-area hospital was sentenced on Friday to life in prison without parole.
A 6-year-old boy was killed and his 11-year-old brother critically wounded when they were struck by a volley of bullets in a drive-by shooting while in bed at a Houston home on Friday, media reports said.
The way that you know that you’ve made it in Vegas is when you get your own slot machine in a casino. Ask Britney Spears.
We’ve been given the chance to take a sneak peek of the Troubadour Stage, which is being presented by Insomniac, the folks responsible for putting together Electric Daisy Carnival, the annual three-day electronic music festival at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The United States and much of the world will see skies graced by a bright, big moon that will be encapsulated in a total lunar eclipse late Sunday evening into early Monday, according to NASA.
The four college students killed in a crash between their charter bus and an amphibious tour bus on a Seattle bridge were from Austria, China, Indonesia and Japan, their school said on Friday.
A little of the green stuff goes a long way in master-planned communities. When new-home buyers look for a community, they consider how much community space is available. Parks and trails can support residents with medical benefits, ways to socialize, connections to neighborhoods and a breath of fresh air.
After doing just enough to maintain their homes in the wake of the Great Recession, Americans are starting to ramp up spending on backyard decks, spalike bathrooms and other vanity improvements.
Dear Expert: I’m thinking about taking the leap and buying a home. I hear the term “rate lock” a lot. Exactly what is it and would now be a good time to use it? — All Locked Up Dear Locked:
You have to research mortgage rates, work on your credit, find a lender, all in the hopes of finding the most affordable financing possible.
Before you go to settlement on your purchase of a newly constructed home, you and your builder will do a walk-through to conduct a final inspection that provides an opportunity to spot items that may need to be corrected or adjusted, learn about the way your new home works and ask questions about anything you don’t understand.