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Graduation speaker pledges to pay class of 2019 student debt

“On behalf of the eight generations of my family that have been in this country, we’re gonna put a little fuel in your bus,” Robert F. Smith told the graduates.

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California van passenger impaled by tripod on freeway

Authorities say somebody stole a tripod from a California Department of Transportation crew and then dropped it from an overpass onto a Sacramento freeway, impaling the lung of a passenger in a van.

More than 3,000 graduate at UNLV ceremony in Las Vegas

More than 3,000 graduate and undergraduate students from UNLV, including a Route 91 shooting survivor, received degrees Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center.

Southern Nevada park rangers dispatched to Mexico border

At least six park rangers who normally patrol public land near Las Vegas have been dispatched to the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months under a surge program adopted by the Trump administration last year.