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April 19, 2024

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  • In this photograph taken through a fisheye lens, people visit the Columbine Memorial, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Littleton, Colo. Trauma still shadows the survivors of the horrific Columbine High School shooting as the attack's 25th anniversary approaches.
    25 years after Columbine, trauma shadows survivors of the school shooting
    Hours after she escaped the Columbine High School shooting, 14-year-old Missy Mendo slept between her parents in bed, still wearing the shoes she had on when she fled her math class.
  • Las Vegas Raiders general manager Tom Telesco speaks during a press conference at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024.
    5 positions Raiders could address in the upcoming NFL Draft
    Here are the five positions the Raiders are likely to target with their current collection of eight picks in this month's NFL Draft.
  • Kimon Tiffith, 10, does jumping jacks during a football camp at Canyon Springs High School Saturday, June 8, 2019.
    Changes to CCSD facility use policy hit youth sports hard
    At least one youth sports organizer fears that new Clark County School District facility use rules will price him out of his leagues’ only options to play their games. A provision of the new rules requires ...
  • Avian influenza outbreaks among poultry flocks in Michigan and Texas are in the news. Closer to home, the most recent bird flu outbreak in Nevada occurred in 2022 in Nye County. The Southern Nevada Health District says it stands ready to act if an outbreak is reported in Clark County.
    Health district says it’s ready to act if bird flu strikes
    The Southern Nevada Health District isn’t raising any red flags after cases of avian influenza were recently reported affecting commercial poultry and wild birds in two states, but it has a plan in place should the virus make ...
  • As Gen Zers forgo alcohol at entertainment events, cannabis consumption lounges can fill a gap
    As Gen Zers forgo alcohol at entertainment events, cannabis consumption lounges can fill a gap
    A survey conducted by cannabis research and data analyst firm New Frontier Data found that 69% of adults ages 18 to 24 prefer weed over alcohol.
  • GOP sabotaging national security
    FBI Director Christopher Wray warned a congressional committee about a growing danger of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil similar to the recent attack in Moscow that killed or injured over 150 people at a concert hall ...
  • School is no place for guns
    At a time when many Republicans are doubling down on trying to make abortion illegal, a proposition that is going to cost them heavily at the election booth, the Tennessee Legislature is in the process of passing ...
  • Financial fraud is not excusable
    With regards to Donald Trump’s recent fraud conviction and subsequent civil financial penalty, some people insist that since everyone made money and no one was hurt, it’s no big deal. Based on that logic, I could rob a bank, invest the money well and then ...
  • Group of school children singing in choir together.
    Just say no to Christian chaplains in public schools
    There is a growing movement to install Christian chaplains in public schools. The Washington Post reports that bills are pending in nine states, have passed in one legislative chamber in three states, and Florida has a bill waiting for the governor’s signature. This is clearly unconstitutional; it is bad for ...
  • How can evangelicals tolerate Trump?
    At the 2016 Republican National Convention, when I told Donald Trump’s “God whisperer” Paula White that he referred to her as his pastor, she said she was his spiritual adviser — as if that were some sort of “get out of jail free” card for her. And yet White worked hard in our conversation to convince me that ...
  • Letter carriers demonstrate in front of the Lloyd George Federal Building in downtown Las Vegas Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The demonstration was organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers, the national labor union of city delivery letter carriers employed by the United States Postal Service.
    Letter carriers in Las Vegas call for change following rise in attacks
    Roberta Dang used to enjoy her job as a letter carrier in Las Vegas, and was happy to share that passion with a new trainee last year.
  • Chairs are set for missing members of the Bibas family who are held hostage in Gaza at a Passover Seder table on Thursday, April 11, 2024, at the communal dining hall at Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel, where a quarter of all residents were killed or captured by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.
    Israelis grapple with how to celebrate Passover, a holiday about freedom, while many remain captive
    On Monday, Jews around the world will begin celebrating the weeklong Passover holiday, recounting the biblical story of their exodus from Egypt after hundreds of years of slavery.
  • Dallas Stars clinch top seed in Western Conference by getting to overtime against Blues
    The Dallas Stars will be the top seed in the Western Conference playoffs for the first time since 2016.
  • A Metro Police crime scene analyst takes photos of a fatal accident scene at a bus stop on southbound Boulder Highway Wednesday, April 17, 2024. An adult and child are dead and three others were injured, police said.
    Metro: Impairment suspected in fatal crash on Boulder Highway
    Two pedestrians waiting for a city bus on Boulder Highway in east Las Vegas were killed Wednesday evening when they were struck by a car whose driver is suspected ...
  • One of the many personnel in the communications room for 911 operators at the Metro Police dispatch center on Friday, April, 10, 2015.
    Police: 911 service restored for landline users in Las Vegas area
    They remind residents: "Don’t dial 911 to test. Please keep our 911 system available for life-threatening emergencies."
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