Judge grants families’ wishes at Halloween adoption event in Las Vegas

This was the fifth time Family Court Judge Cynthia Giuliani has dressed as a fairy godmother for a special Halloween adoption event. She said she hoped the event would encourage others to adopt or consider foster care.

UNLV basketball fans get first chance to see new Rebels

UNLV will play Dakota Wesleyan in an exhibition baskeball game at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Thomas & Mack Center. It’s the first opportunity for fans to better know what to expect this season.

UFC veteran summit provides answers for fighters’ future

Longtime UFC welterweight contender Carlos Condit was paying close attention on Friday and Saturday when he joined a group of about 20 fighters for the UFC’s veteran summit at Red Rock Resort.

Bill Cosby lawyers want accusers to go through competency hearings

Bill Cosby’s lawyers accused prosecutors Monday of trying to use the “tainted, unreliable memories of women, now in their senior years” to build their sexual assault case against him and will seek competency hearings on any accusers allowed to testify.

Best ways to help people with cancer

For many people, it’s hard to know what to say or do when someone they love is ill. And for the patient, asking for help can be difficult.

For entertainment pro, positive mindset crucial to healing

As the director of production for On Stage Enterprises, which owns all of the “Legends in Concert” shows nationally, including the residency show at the Flamingo Las Vegas, Toni Lee has spent her career prepared to make quick adjustments based on performance mishaps and unpredictable situations. But when a diagnosis of breast cancer was shared with her on — of all days — Sept. 11, 2007, 48-year-old Lee couldn’t find a way to justify the disease choosing her body.

Oncology nurses play major role in patients’ recovery

When patients are going through cancer treatment, oncology nurses are some of their main sources of medical contact and comfort. Although nursing can be personally fulfilling, it’s definitely not an easy job. So what makes someone choose it as a professional path?

Meadows Bank reports increase in net income

Meadows Bank on Monday released its operating results through the third quarter of 2016, and reported that net income was $6.49 million in the first nine months of 2016, up 10 percent from $5.88 million during the same period in 2015.

Car in Biden motorcade hits 3 vehicles; vice president safe

Police in Delaware say a car in Vice President Joe Biden’s motorcade hit three other vehicles. The car Biden was riding in was not involved, and he was not hurt.

Italy’s premier vows help for more than 15,000 displaced by earthquakes

Italy’s premier pledged Monday to find temporary housing for all those displaced by a series of powerful earthquakes in a central mountainous region, as the nation’s strongest temblor in 36 years pushed those needing assistance to more than 15,000.

 
Donald Trump rallies thousands at Las Vegas Strip event

Donald Trump rallied supporters Sunday in Las Vegas, homing in on the news that the FBI is looking into additional emails potentially tied to its investigation of the private server Hillary Clinton used while secretary of state.

Study: Zika causes infertility, lasting harm to male mice

A study of mice infected with Zika showed the virus caused lasting damage to key cells in the male reproductive system, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

Pope Francis makes historic trip to Sweden

Pope Francis traveled to secular Sweden on Monday to mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, a remarkably bold gesture given his very own Jesuit religious order was founded to defend the faith against Martin Luther’s “heretical” reforms five centuries ago.

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