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CCSD board passes transgender policy on split vote

Clark County School Board trustees once again cast a split vote to push through a policy addressing the needs of transgender students, after a final meeting of lengthy public comment that featured both support and opposition from parents.

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Las Vegas woman testified against Bill Cosby at recent retrial

Lise-Lotte Lublin, a sixth-grade teacher at Johnson Junior High School, was the fifth witness to testify in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial in Pennsylvania. In 2014, she came forward with allegations that the comedian had drugged and raped her inside a Las Vegas Hilton suite in 1989.

Andre’s aims at matching its Strip quality in Summerlin

Chef Andre Rochat’s fare has been a staple in Las Vegas since the early 1980s, when he opened his first restaurant downtown. Now on the Strip, he made sure Summerlin-area residents also had a chance to indulge in his award-winning cuisine with Andre’s Bistro Bar.

Southern Nevada among nation’s highest in homeless population

That marked an increase of 282 people, or 4 percent, over the 2016’s point-in-time homeless population count. The annual count, taken on a single night in January, does not capture all of the people who will be homeless at some point during the year.

 
Reno student marching in Virginia rally denounces violence

The University of Nevada, Reno, student identified as a marcher in Saturday’s white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Sunday denounced the violence that erupted and led to three people’s deaths.