Approximately 800 veterans attended the 2019 Veterans Stand Down at Big League Dreams Park in Las Vegas. The event on Wednesday offered a variety of services and resources.
Briana Erickson
Reporter: Homeless and veterans issues
Email: berickson@reviewjournal.com
Phone: 702-387-5244
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Briana Erickson covers homeless and veterans’ issues for the Review-Journal. A proud “Florida Woman” living in the desert, she centers her reporting around people living in the shadows.
Before joining the Review-Journal in 2017, the University of Florida graduate wrote for the North Central Florida NPR affiliate and the South Florida Sun Sentinel. She was named College Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists.
Instead of approving a bill to increase taxes and fees to pay for homeless services in Clark County, the Legislature last week amended it to require the county and its municipalities to work together for a solution.
Las Vegas attorney and former NSPCA board member Tina Walls filed a complaint March 29 with the state attorney general’s office, accusing the organization’s former president of misusing shelter funds.
At 96, Onofrio “No-No” Zicari is finally ready to return to the spot where he spent the worst hours of his life.
Las Vegas police are investigating a motorcycle crash that left a wheelchair-bound pedestrian dead in the central valley Friday night.
Two people sought in the killing of a 71-year-old doctor whose body was found in a nearby desert were roommates of a Las Vegas woman arrested in connection with his death, police said.
The board of directors of the Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals voted unanimously to turn over operations of the animal welfare group to the Reno-based Humane Network, the organization announced Friday.
Since Metro added six officers to its Homeless Outreach Team in December, the unit has made contact with more than 3,000 homeless people, persuaded 791 to accepted services and moved 147 into permanent housing, it says.
The visit, part of the Collings Foundation’s 110-city “Wings of Freedom Tour” to honor veterans of the war, includes three bombers and a fighter.
Though big improvements at Huntridge Circle Park are in the works, residents remain concerned that when it reopens it will again become a magnet for the homeless, drug users and petty thieves.
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman’s delivery was smooth: She smiled for the cameras as she knocked on the door of Dennis Schoen and Cynthia Boyles’ trailer on Tuesday and presented them with a week’s worth of Meals on Wheels.
Other homeless residents admit to being unnerved by the back-to-back fatalities — one a homicide, the other a pedestrian death — but others say they simply underscored a central truth of life on the streets: “There ain’t no safety.”
Grammy Award-winning singer Kelly Clarkson will headline a fundraiser in Las Vegas on May 24 to benefit several local nonprofits targeting at-risk youth.
Eddie Lee Jackson, 38, told a police officer after the fist fight on Friday that he was being jailed over “some fool he left leaking in the parking lot,” according to his arrest report.
Plans by Clark County to earmark up to $12 million in marijuana fees to address homelessness have evolved from the “housing first” approach outlined when the proposal was approved in January.
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