Missing UC Berkeley student found dead near USC

A University of California, Berkeley student reported missing after a fraternity party at another campus over the weekend was identified on Monday as the person killed when he was struck by a car early on Saturday, police said on Monday.

When should you start talking to your child about sex?

If you’re like most people, your sexual education was probably limited to what you learned in high school biology class. Maybe you had a few unofficial education courses talking with friends in the locker room or at sleepovers, but if you’re like most people, your parents probably never addressed the topic in any formal (or informal) way.

Growing Henderson family becomes first buyer at Cadence

​Eric and Jodi Gilliland traded a yard in back for a 50-acre park out front. A yard for their growing family was top among the features the Henderson couple wanted in their next home. But they tossed their shopping list as soon as they visited Cadence at Lake Mead Parkway and Boulder Highway.

Work on $650 million Lake Mead pump station starts

The Southern Nevada Water Authority is about to launch the next phase of a 12-year building binge expected to last until 2020 and cost almost $1.5 billion.

Uber advocates, foes clash toe-to-toe for first time in Nevada

Two transportation heavyweights went toe-to-toe for the first time in the state on Monday in the high-stakes fight over whether the ride-hailing company Uber would be allowed to operate legally in Nevada. By most accounts, Monday’s battle ended in a draw.

Schools shouldn’t use random drug testing, experts say

Schools should not be using random drug tests to catch or deter drug abusers, the American Academy of Pediatrics advises in an updated policy statement.

Blogger attacked, hacked to death in Bangladesh

A blogger was hacked to death by assailants using machetes in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Monday, the second attack in five weeks on a critic of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority nation.

 
Mich. man says he was racially profiled, assaulted during traffic stop

Floyd Dent and the police officers in Inkster, Michigan, who stopped him in January agree that he was pulled over in a traffic stop, that Dent is African-American and the officer who bloodied and then arrested him that night is white.

 
Missouri state official found dead in apparent suicide

Less than a month after Missouri’s state auditor killed himself, one of the official’s top aides has also been found dead in what appears to be a suicide, police said Monday.

Wynn Resorts wants a woman on board, just not Elaine

Wynn Resorts Ltd. reiterated its position Monday that it will have at least one woman on the company’s board by the end of the year, preferably not ousted board member Elaine Wynn.

Japan casino legalization bill delayed again in latest setback

Prospects for legalizing casino gambling in Japan suffered another blow on Monday as proponents said they would delay a bill allowing full-scale resorts as the ruling coalition remains divided on the controversial measure.

Las Vegan Kris Bryant to start season in minor league

Chicago Cubs slugging prospect Kris Bryant, and Las Vegas native, who made a strong case to break camp with the major league club with nine home runs this spring, was reassigned to minor league camp Monday.

Fiery NLV car crash that killed man ruled suicide

The driver who died in a fiery North Las Vegas single-vehicle crash Saturday morning took his own life, the Clark County coroner’s office said Monday morning.

 
Selfies at NYC explosion site where 2 died spark outrage, debate

There is a time and place for selfies — with celebrities, at cool landmarks, with your best friend at the spa, whatever — but tragedy is not one of those times, as the public has expressed in reaction to selfies posted Thursday from the site of a building explosion in New York City’s East Village.

‘Walking Dead’ season finale sets series viewership record

AMC’s “The Walking Dead” wrapped its highest-rated season yet Sunday with more monster numbers, including a series record for a finale and drawing more than four times as many young adults as the night’s top-rated broadcast entertainment series.

Reid calls visa whistleblowers ‘a bunch of whiners’

Sen. Harry Reid acknowledges using his clout to speed visa applications for wealthy foreign investors in the SLS Las Vegas resort, and says whistleblowers who had a problem with that are “a bunch of whiners.”

U.S. Supreme Court rejects ‘death panel’ challenge to Obamacare

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a new challenge to President Barack Obama’s healthcare law that took aim at a bureaucratic board labeled by some Republicans as a “death panel” because it was designed to cut Medicare costs.

 
Indiana lawmakers to clarify anti-LGBT religious freedom bill

Republican lawmakers in Indiana pledged on Monday to clarify a religious freedom bill that was slammed by businesses and activists for sending a message of discrimination against gays after it was passed last week.

 
Man shot, killed after ramming gate at NSA headquarters

Two people tried to ram their vehicle into the National Security Agency’s entrance gates near Washington on Monday before guards shot one of them dead, officials said.

3 common mistakes to avoid when filing your taxes

The most common tax mistakes are pretty dumb ones, like forgetting to sign the return, garbling a bank account number or using a nickname instead of the name on a Social Security card.

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