Here’s a heaping helping of yuletide irony: Among the foods most often blamed for causing heartburn is peppermint. That’s right: If your Christmas traditions include downing a shot or two of Maalox to quell the fire in your belly, that innocent little candy cane just might be the culprit.
There are times when University Medical Center nurse Robin Parks wants to leave her patient’s room and howl in frustration.
“Some families just can’t handle the stigma of someone close to them having HIV, but pneumonia’s OK,” Parks says.
Stretching is one of the hardest things I do in my workouts. I don’t have the limber gene so I have to work on simple things to maintain my own flexibility. If I neglect proper stretching, my muscles tighten and stay sore longer.
WASHINGTON — A surge in young nurses may ease forecasts of coming shortages as their baby-boomer co-workers retire.
Federal land managers have agreed to postpone a precedent-setting plan to castrate hundreds of wild stallions in eastern Nevada pending a federal court’s review of the issue.
Many homeless and low-income people enjoyed a Christmas Day dinner on Sunday at Catholic Charities in Las Vegas. More than 150 volunteers served the meals.
HONOLULU — Austin Davis threw two touchdowns, including a 4-yarder late in the game, and No. 22 Southern Mississippi earned a school-record 12th victory by holding off UNR 24-17 in the Hawaii Bowl on Saturday night.
GREEN BAY, Wis. — With Aaron Rodgers trying to help the Green Bay Packers secure a No. 1 playoff seed against a sputtering Chicago Bears team missing its two best offensive players, the NFL’s most storied rivalry is looking pretty lopsided these days.
There’s no chance of a white Christmas in the valley this year, although that’s to be expected for Las Vegas, a city that’s had snow fall on Dec. 25 only three times in the last seven decades.
Idaho State Police said two Nevada girls died and another was injured when their car crossed the centerline and collided head-on with a logging truck in northern Idaho.
An American Airlines jetliner with 134 passengers aboard was forced to return to Reno-Tahoe International Airport shortly after takeoff because of an electrical malfunction.
RENO — A Florida skier has sued the owner of Heavenly Mountain Resort on Lake Tahoe’s south shore, claiming she was seriously injured when an employee on a snowboard crashed into her last year.
MINDEN — A 24-year-old man has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the 2008 shooting death of his girlfriend’s ex-husband as the victim slept in his Minden home.
Was Katherine Jackson on a scouting mission to check out a Michael Jackson tribute artist for business reasons, or was it a case of a mother missing her son?
Will it be confirmed that Republicans don’t fall in love, they just fall in line with regard to their presidential nominee?
The doctor in Las Vegas, the skier at Vail, the programmer in Phoenix, the student in San Diego and the rancher in Wyoming may not know it, but they are bound together by the Colorado River, its tributaries, and the intricate systems of dams and reservoirs that manage its water supply.
