UNLV roundup: Ban, Kim tie for 21st in NCAA golf

UNLV’s Shintaro Ban and Justin Kim each shot a final score of 2-over-par 290 and tied for 21st at the NCAA Championships at Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Veterans honored on Memorial Day at Boulder City cemetery

On Monday afternoon, nearly 50 years since she last saw her first love, Navin sat among at least 300 people gathered at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City to honor and remember those who died serving in the U.S. armed forces.

27 rabbits abandoned at New York train station

Officials on Long Island are offering a reward for information leading to the person or people responsible for dumping 27 rabbits by a Suffolk County train station.

Knights’ staff kept distractions to minimum for players

Rick Braunstein, the team’s director travel services, and Katy Boettinger, the director of hockey operations, handled ticket, flight and hotel requests from the players and coaches in advance of Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final

 
New video game lets player re-create school shootings

An upcoming computer video game that would allow players to re-create school shootings by stalking school hallways and racking up kills has been condemned as insensitive and inappropriate by the parents of students who were shot to death during the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

 
Ex-Las Vegas student returns with 3 degrees to aid education

Zhan Okuda-Lim has been fighting for education since he was a Valley High School freshman. Now the Ivy League educated scholar is back in his hometown, working for the Public Education Foundation.

 
Starbucks closing stores for racial bias training on Tuesday

Starbucks, trying to put to rest an outcry over the arrest of two black men at one of its stores, is closing more than 8,000 stores for an afternoon of anti-bias training, a strategy some believe can keep racism at bay.

 
Sesame Street makers sue over R-rated puppet movie

The makers of “Sesame Street” are suing the promoter of a new Melissa McCarthy movie, saying it’s abusing the famed puppets’ sterling reputation to advertise the R-rated film.

Indiana teacher who stopped shooting praises wounded student

A teacher who was shot while tackling and disarming a student at an Indiana school said Monday that his swift decisions “were the only acceptable actions” to save his seventh-grade classroom.

Stabbing suspect in custody after standoff in east Las Vegas

A standoff in east Las Vegas ended about 4:30 a.m. after Las Vegas police and Metro SWAT negotiators worked into the early morning hours Monday trying to persuade a man to surrender after a stabbing.

 
Malian migrant offered French citizenship after saving baby

President Emmanuel Macron on Monday lauded as a hero a migrant from Mali who scaled an apartment building to save a child dangling from a balcony, and rewarded the young man’s bravery with an offer of French citizenship and a job as a firefighter.

 
Soldiers still haunted by forgotten bloody battle of WWII

The battle for the Aleutian island was one of the deadliest in the Pacific in terms of the percentage of troops killed. Nearly all the Japanese forces, estimated at about 2,500 soldiers, died with only 28 survivors. About 550 or so U.S. soldiers were killed.

 
Alberto downgraded to depression, scattering storms in South

Subtropical Storm Alberto lumbered ashore Monday on the U.S. Gulf Coast, pelting white sand beaches with blustery winds and stinging rain that kept the usual Memorial Day crowds away.

 
US team in North Korea trying to resurrect Trump-Kim talks

A U.S. team was in North Korea to plan a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to President Donald Trump, raising expectations that the on-off-on meeting would indeed take place.

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