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State urged to boost proposed pay for autism technicians

Parents of autistic children and providers of early intervention services urged state officials Monday to increase Nevada’s proposed rate of reimbursement for treating low-income children, saying to do otherwise will doom the program to failure and deny vulnerable children essential tools to lead productive lives.

Traveling Gov. Sandoval in China for trade mission

Sandoval is in the People’s Republic this week on yet another trade mission, this time as president of a national group called the Council of State Governments.

Parents, others fear autism technician pay to be too low

Las Vegas High School teacher Stephanie Hill knows firsthand how critical early and intense intervention is for an autistic child to become a productive and functioning adult.

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Geologists urged to speed collection of fault data

With every small rumble that triggers their seismographs, Nevada geologists inch closer to understanding hazards posed by earthquake faults in the Las Vegas Valley.

Suspect in mom’s death dies after police shooting

A man Carson City police believe shot and killed his mother and was involved in a police shooting Wednesday died Friday, according to the Nevada Appeal.

Report says Odom’s improving condition ‘brightening spirits’ of loved ones

The improving health of former NBA star Lamar Odom four days after he collapsed at a Nevada brothel and fell into a coma has brightened the spirits of his loved ones, People Magazine reported on Saturday, citing a source close to his estranged wife Khloé Kardashian.

 
Mud cleanup keeps Central California-to-Las Vegas highway closed

A popular highway that links Las Vegas and Central California remained closed Saturday night after a mudslide stranded nearly 200 vehicles in the small mountain town of Tehachapi on Thursday night, authorities said.

Inmate, 72, dies in Northern Nevada

A Northern Nevada inmate serving time for assault on a police officer and attempted murder died Thursday, the Nevada Department of Corrections said Friday.

Veterans home administrator to leave

Mark McBride, administrator of the State Veterans Home in Boulder City, will leave his post Nov. 1 to take a private sector job, Nevada veterans services officials said this week.

State welcomes one of USS Nevada’s last living survivors

Charles Sehe was 18 on that day of infamy on Dec. 7, 1941, serving aboard the U.S.S. Nevada when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and thrust the U.S. into World War II.

Reno journalist arrested after altercation at Nevada Tesla plant

Tesla said in a blog post this week that two staffers with the Reno Gazette Journal newspaper were found trespassing at the company’s massive battery factory in Nevada on October 9.

Low staffing levels cited in Nevada prison shootings

There were more than 200 incidents of correctional officers firing shotguns during inmate incidents in the past three years at six prisons, with the vast majority occurring at High Desert State Prison, a review released Tuesday shows.

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