A 61-year-old woman was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after she was struck by a pickup in the central valley Thursday morning.
When the first strands of hair began to wrap around her round hair brush, Heather Seitz was ready. “On my first diagnosis, I was so happy that I didn’t need chemo, mainly because I was afraid to lose my hair,” the two-time breast cancer survivor said. “The second time I didn’t care. I realized that being alive was more important than losing my hair.”
After yet another suspected arson at a St. Louis-area church, authorities are continuing their hunt for those responsible while making a promise: “Whoever this person is, they’ve picked a fight they can’t win.”
When Sonya Newton of Las Vegas was first diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2012 at the age of 41, she was the same age as her mother. Newton found a lump in her breast, just months before she was scheduled for her annual mammogram.
This is an instructive Vegas story about the business acumen of free limo rides, $20 lap dances and celebrity red carpets.
One of the oldest contemporary nightclubs, Tryst in the Wynn, will close after a “Final Affair” event on Nov. 7, the Wynn noted quietly at the bottom of a press email about food and beverage listings.
In 2013, 69 children under the age of 14 died from the accidental discharge of a gun, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Brooklynn was one of them. But another comprehensive report on child gun deaths puts that number at 100, and American kids are 16 times more likely to be killed in accidental shootings than their peers in other high-income countries.
More pleasant weather is in store for the Las Vegas Valley moving into the weekend.
Rick Pitino issued a statement Thursday apologizing to Louisville fans for the negativity around the program since allegations of sex and stripping for recruits were raised by a self-described escort.
Hillary Clinton mounted a passionate defense of her response to the Benghazi attacks at a congressional hearing Thursday, telling Republicans that she had lost more sleep over the deaths of four Americans in Libya than anyone else on the panel.
The public is invited to watch more than 400 youth soccer teams from 13 U.S. states, Canada, Haiti, Mexico and Chile compete in the 16th annual Las Vegas Mayor’s Cup International Soccer Tournament Oct. 23-25.
Southwest Medical is offering a free breast care open house, set from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 24 at the Eastern Health Center, 4475 S. Eastern Ave.
Messing with a classic is always an iffy undertaking. But that hasn’t stopped artist Troy Little from adapting Hunter S. Thompson’s classic “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream,” into a graphic novel.
Southwest Airlines, buoyed by low fuel costs, smashed financial records left and right Thursday, reporting profits of more than half a billion dollars in the company’s third quarter.
A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to staging his wife’s disappearance in South Carolina in order to help her avoid facing criminal charges in their home state, federal prosecutors said.
Regional casino operator Penn National Gaming will restate its quarterly financials going back to the November 2013 spinoff of real estate investment trust Gaming and Leisure Partners, the company said Thursday.
One member of a U.S. special operations team was killed during an operation to rescue hostages held by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, the first American killed in ground combat with the militant group, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
A masked man wielding a sword or a knife killed a teacher and a student in an attack at a school in the Swedish town of Trollhattan on Thursday before being fatally shot by police, authorities said.
Nevada legislators today released the final portion of $27 million allocated to create a medical school at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Simon Cowell will judge the upcoming 11th season of “America’s Got Talent.” The former “American Idol” judge is replacing Howard Stern on the NBC reality competition.
The Clark County coroner’s office Thursday identified a 10-year-old boy killed the day before in Logandale in ATV crash.
Tall and slim, with long, blond hair, Deborah Richard could look like an expensive call girl or a bag lady. She could wear an auburn wig and heavy makeup and look like a hooker. She could be the perfect ditz or the perfect waitress.
Colleges and universities are supposed to be marketplaces of ideas, but that’s less and less true today. While higher education systems champion diversity of race, ethnicity and sexual identity, they’re completely unconcerned with diversity of ideology.
Dog food recalls alone have increased almost 190 percent since 2014.
Sorting through the myths vs. truths of clinical trials: Why only 3 percent of eligible people enroll in trials.
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