Police find missing boy, suspect near Reno

A missing boy in the Reno area was found late Saturday night. Earlier, the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office issued an Amber Alert for the boy.

Nevada prepares new blueprint for education

A plan that lays out Nevada’s education goals for the next decade includes mapping where the best educators work.

 
US suspends enforcement of travel ban, Justice moves to appeal

The government on Saturday suspended enforcement of President Donald Trump’s refugee and immigration ban and filed notice it would appeal a judge’s order, plunging the new administration into a crisis that has challenged Trump’s authority — and ability to fulfill campaign promises.

 
Visa holders racing to board flights to US amid reprieve

Visa holders from seven majority-Muslim countries affected by President Donald Trump’s travel ban hurried to board U.S.-bound flights Saturday, fearing they might have only a slim window through which to enter the country after a federal judge temporarily blocked the ban.

SUNSET WRESTLING: Peyton Prussin helps Arbor View lock up 2nd straight title

Arbor View’s Peyton Prussin beat Ryan Mitchell of Spring Valley 10-6 to take third place in the Class 4A Sunset Region tournament at Cimarron-Memorial and clinch the Aggies’ second straight region title before the championship matches started.

SUNRISE WRESTLING: Green Valley rolls to 7th straight region title

The Gators had someone competing for the championship in all but one weight class, comfortably rolling to their seventh consecutive team championship Saturday at Las Vegas High with a score of 324½ points.

 
Rountree didn’t want his UFC run to ‘go away yet’ — VIDEO

UFC light heavyweight and Las Vegas-based fighter Khalil Rountree says hard work paid off for him. The former Ultimate Fighter finalist won his first fight with the promotion in Houston when he defeated Daniel Jolly via first-round knockout.

 
MMA fighters in Houston reveal their Super Bowl 51 picks — VIDEO

Several MMA fighters made appearances on Super Bowl 51’s radio row in Houston. So we asked them to give us their picks for the Big Game and had them explain why they picked either the New England Patriots or the Atlanta Falcons.

LETTER: Recent commentary in favor of zoos was grossly misleading

The examples of zoos helping species through breeding and reintroduction are not “countless,” as American Humane asserts. Quite the opposite — of 167 attempts to reintroduce captive-bred animals to the wild, fewer than 10 percent have succeeded.

COMMENTARY: Donald Trump goes after the regulatory state

It would be nice if Trump and his critics could find some common ground: Democrats admitting that regulations have been carelessly overused; Republicans conceding that the regulatory state isn’t going away.

COMMENTARY: Donald Trump, foreign policy and politics

Complaining about the personality or views of the president’s political adviser is different than insisting on the flawed principle that no political adviser should play a formal role in national security decision-making.

LETTER: Debate over ‘pink tax,’ Nevada sales tax is silly and trivial

This illustrates exactly what public officials should not be doing: obsessing with trivial, meaningless non-issues that have no impact on citizens’ lives and which government should not be concerned with in the first place.

Colorado officials are the teachers in Weed 101 classes

Colorado agriculture officials this week briefed officials from about a dozen states — some that have legalized weed, others that joked their states will legalize pot “when hell freezes over” — to go over the basics of marijuana farming and swap stories about regulating a crop that the federal government still considers illegal.

How much money do Raiders really need to build Las Vegas stadium?

Projected costs for a proposed new NFL stadium in Las Vegas might not be as high as anticipated, leaving Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis looking for a new investment partner but possibly needing less money to complete the project.

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