Helping homeless students: CCSD boosts outreach during holiday season

Antonio was released from CCDC in August and now attends Rancho High School as a senior. He said last week that he feels “out of place” back at school, but he shares something with a growing number of Clark County students. He’s homeless.

Las Vegas post offices: Long lines, mail to move, but there’s still time

Patrons lamented the long lines but not much else this week as Las Vegas post offices handled more of an estimated 160 million pieces of mail over the holidays — and there’s still time to get some things there by Christmas.

Swedish producer doesn’t spin it: ‘I hate Ghosts’

It’s Tech Talk Time with John Dahlback and me, and we agree on one thing immediately. We usually love to play “Call of Duty” multiplayers but the new “Call of Duty: Ghosts” is meh.

DJs rock Las Vegas, even on Christmas Eve, night

If you’re the kind of girl who party-rocks on Christmas, you’re in luck. Some clubs will be open. Here are the DJs you’ll find.

Show & Tell: Meet Shana Bryn McCartney of ‘Veronic: Voices’

Meet Shana Bryn McCartney, a dancer in “Veronic: Voices.” She started dancing at 2½, and also was a competitive figure skater from age 8 through her sophomore year of high school.

Fresno State’s Davante Adams may be the best wideout you’ve never seen

Fresno, Calif., is tucked away in the San Joaquin Valley and the local team plays most of its home games at around 10 p.m. Eastern time. Coach Tim DeRuyter thinks that’s why Davante Adams hasn’t received more recognition for putting up the nation’s best receiving numbers.

Inmate dies in Northern Nevada

A male inmate convicted of second-degree murder in 2008 died at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City on Wednesday.

 
Man’s suicide note in Reno shooting spree claims botched surgery

A gunman who complained he had a botched 2010 surgery left a suicide note outlining plans for his attack before targeting physicians at a Reno medical office that left one doctor dead and another critically wounded, police said Thursday.

2 brothers kidnapped, abused; one’s throat cut

A man lured two brothers, ages 5 and 8, from their yard in south Mississippi and took them to his camper trailer, where he sexually abused them and slashed the older boy’s throat.

Nevada ranked No. 12 on worst drivers list

Nevada comes in at No. 12 in a state-by-state ranking of worst drivers in a study by Car Insurance Comparison.

EDITORIAL: NFR’s future

Luring the National Finals Rodeo out of Las Vegas was going to take one sweet deal.

EDITORIAL: More shame for Nevada’s awful mental health system

Nevada’s disgraceful mental health system is back in the news for the wrong reasons. The Sacramento Bee, which previously uncovered improper patient discharges and out-of-state transports from the Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas, reported more troubling findings this week: some patients were bused out of town despite facing criminal charges in Southern Nevada.

Caesars taps Live Nation to book The Axis at Planet Hollywood

Caesars Entertainment announced Thursday that Live Nation Entertainment will oversee booking the remodeled theater at Planet Hollywood, reopening as The Axis on Dec. 27 with the first date in Britney Spears’ exclusive concert run, “Britney: Piece Of Me.”

Suspicious van sought in attempted student kidnapping

North Las Vegas police are looking for two Hispanic men in the attempted kidnapping of a 12-year-old girl near Von Tobel Middle School Wednesday morning.

Fossett searcher loses Nevada Supreme Court compensation appeal

A search and rescue expert who assisted in the initial hunt for missing aviation adventurer Steve Fossett in 2007 has lost his appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court seeking to collect additional money for his efforts.

Former loan officer gets prison for mortgage scheme

A former Las Vegas loan officer was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison Thursday in a more than $2.2 million mortgage fraud scheme that occurred in 2006.

 
Theater balcony collapses in London; dozens injured

Hunks of plaster and dust rained down on a packed audience when the ceiling of a London theater partially collapsed Thursday night. More than 75 people were injured — seven seriously.

 
Pastor defrocked for performing son’s gay wedding

The United Methodist church defrocked a pastor from central Pennsylvania on Thursday for violating doctrine by officiating his son’s gay marriage, leaving the minister shocked and upset that he could be punished for an “act of love.”

 
Man who shot woman on porch ‘in self-defense’ will face murder trial

A Detroit-area man who fatally shot a drunk, unarmed woman on his porch will stand trial for second-degree murder, a judge said Thursday, rejecting a self-defense argument for the killer’s “bad choice.”

 
‘Duck Dynasty’ suspension ruffles feathers of fans

When A&E suspended “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson for disparaging gay people, it may have followed a time-honored TV tradition of quickly silencing a star who speaks his mind. But in doing so it also ruffled the feathers of possibly millions of the show’s fans.

 
40 million hit in Target security breach

The nation’s second-largest discounter acknowledged Thursday that data connected to about 40 million credit and debit card accounts was stolen as part of a breach that began over the Thanksgiving weekend.

A La Carte, Dec. 17-23

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