The Oakland Raiders’ philosophical Commitment to Excellence has become a Commitment to Las Vegas.
The early results of a study by UNLV researchers raise questions about the current diagnosis model for post-traumatic stress syndrome, which says a person must have lived through a traumatic event or have a loved one who did.
The Raiders entered Week 9 with a 4 percent chance of qualifying for the playoffs, but their chances have tripled to 13 percent in the past two weeks.
The Raiders waited this long because they believed, when healthy, he was worth it. They couldn’t wait any longer.
In late 1992, 1,700 scientists from around the world issued a dire “warning to humanity.” They said humans had pushed Earth’s ecosystems to their breaking point and were well on the way to ruining the planet.
Luca Sbisa suffered a lower body injury and will not make the team’s two-game road trip to western Canada, which includes a game against his former team, the Vancouver Canucks.
“It’s project-based learning (and) science instruction, more hands-on and life-related,” Yacobovsky said. The school is also considering adding a tortoise habitat, a garden and greenhouse, she said.
The American Gaming Association has joined a coalition of business-related organizations emphasizing the need to maintain full interest deductibility for growth investments in tax-reform legislation being debated in Senate and House committees.
As Durango High School basketball players ran drills during a recent practice, Jermaine Seagears pulled a small notebookfrom his pocket. It’s filled with inspirational messages he has written for his sports and training program, Work or Don’tEat.
Thanksgiving menus and special dishes offered at Las Vegas-area restaurants.
Tourists visited the Route 91 Harvest memorial site at the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign on the Las Vegas Strip on Monday after 58 crosses erected in honor of the Oct. 1 shooting victims were removed and transported to the Clark County Museum on Sunday.
New guidelines lower the threshold for high blood pressure, adding 30 million Americans to those who have the condition, which now plagues nearly half of U.S. adults.
The Panthers are favored between 8½ and 9 points at Las Vegas sports books and the total is between 38 and 39.
Newly recovered security camera footage from inside a Penn State fraternity house showed that a pledge had been given at least 18 drinks over less than 90 minutes, investigators said Monday in announcing dozens of new charges related to the pledge’s death.
It only lasted a minute. And it flew from just 12,500 feet. But Saturday’s first-ever successful test flight of a miniature, new-generation space shuttle was something of a coup for the Sierra Nevada Corp., which had been waiting years to fly.
The program typically lasts 18 to 24 months and requires participants to stay sober, follow strict counseling appointments and fulfill community-service requirements.
The coach, commonly referred to as “Chelis,” will lead the team in its first season in the United Soccer League in 2018.
Both Brett and Steve Pastorino of the Las Vegas Lights FC’s front office have experience with expansion Major League Soccer teams.
Here’s a question rarely raised before Donald Trump ran for the White House: If the president ordered a pre-emptive nuclear strike, could anyone stop him?
The Culinary union said it will look into whether Mandalay Bay followed proper procedures when it cut employees’ work hours, effective immediately, in response to the Oct. 1 Las Vegas shooting.
Five burning questions for UNLV’s football game at New Mexico at 6:30 p.m. Friday.
Week 10 of the NFL season wraps up tonight with the Miami Dolphins visiting the Carolina Panthers for “Monday Night Football.”
A new accuser said Monday that as a teenager in the 1970s she was sexually assaulted by Roy Moore in a locked car, further rocking the Alabama Republican’s race for an open Senate seat.
She describes herself as a fiscal conervative and an “anti-establishment candidate” who won’t cater to special interests or lobbying groups.
Rental trucks often turn into temporary mobile homes for people down on their luck.
Metro police, national security agencies and truck rental headquarters had been educating Las Vegas employees about suspicious customer behavior long before Halloween’s deadly truck attack that killed eight in lower Manhattan.
The bollards are intended to protect pedestrians against vehicle-ramming attacks and traffic accidents, Clark County spokesman Dan Kulin said.
Although her husband was injured in a crash more than 30 years ago, it didn’t stop Shelly Segal, 45, of the east valley from learning to drive jet cars — which can travel at more than 300 mph. She’s one of about six female performers nationwide in the National Hot Rod Association sport, she said.