A record 160 Nevada inmates received their high school diploma or equivalency certificate last week through the Nevada Department of Corrections.
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Before moving to general assignment, Max covered all things violent and weird after dark in Las Vegas. He still does more or less the same thing, just in the daylight now. Max was born and raised in northwest Vegas valley and studied at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he held multiple positions at what is now the Scarlet and Gray Free Press. He worked at a comic shop for six years and regrets every minute of it. Max joined the Review-Journal as an intern in 2016 and began working full-time in 2017.
It can be difficult to think clearly or ask for help while suffering a stroke, but bystanders who recognize the symptoms can call for medical attention right away.
A potentially record-setting cool Memorial Day will precede a warming trend through the rest of the week, according to the National Weather Service.
With game wardens patrolling Lake Mead this weekend, some folks may find themselves in hot water for boating recklessly, being under the influence or not having required safety equipment.
Joseph Yablonsky, the controversial and notoriously outspoken former head of the FBI’s Las Vegas field office, died Tuesday morning in Florida. He was 90.
Harold Vosko, who earned his fortune in the video rental business before becoming president and co-founder of Heaven Can Wait Animal Society, died Monday night at age 66.
More than 3,600 students graduated from the College of Southern Nevada, its largest graduating class ever. About 1,200 walked at Monday’s ceremony.
Students in two College of Education graduate programs learned in March that the programs had lost their accreditation.
Five years after same-sex marriage was legalized in Nevada, two Florida men became the 20,000th same-sex couple to receive a marriage license in Las Vegas.
Eight Las Vegas and Clark County firefighters battled head-to-head in a burger-eating contest and raised almost $5,000 for a nonprofit.
Former Metropolitan Police Department officer Bret Theil, 39, was found guilty of having sexually abused a woman, now 21, from the time she was 8 until she was 19.
The inaugural class of the deaf studies program at Nevada State College had five graduates at Tuesday’s commencement ceremony, which featured over 600 graduates.
Eighteen Holocaust survivors received honorary doctorates of humane letters during Touro University Nevada’s Spring Commencement 2019 ceremony on Monday.
The two victims were older than 65 and died of the flu between April 28 and May 4, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
The senate’s resolution accuses CSN administrators, particularly Vice President of Academic Affairs Margo Martin, of excluding faculty from decision-making processes directly affecting them and their students.
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