Emergency alert test going out Wednesday to US cellphones

About 225 million electronic devices across the United States will wail and buzz Wednesday afternoon as the Federal Emergency Management Agency conducts an emergency alert test.

US poet laureate says Las Vegas is ‘alive and full of energy’

U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, a 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner, read C.K. Williams’s “The Cup” and her own piece “Dusk.” She had audience members develop questions afterward — giving them a topic to explore to develop their own poems.

Group looks to help Nevada felons regain voting rights

With the upcoming registration deadline looming, a new organization is encouraging Nevada’s felons to push past misinformation and re-securing their right to vote.

Dean Heller gets a boost with Brian Sandoval endorsement

With just over one month until election day, Sen. Dean Heller’s re-election campaign got a last-minute boost from outgoing Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval.

Las Vegas man sentenced in marijuana-by-mail scheme

A Las Vegas man has been sentenced in federal court in Pittsburgh for his role in a cross-country trafficking scheme to distribute marijuana on college campuses in Pennsylvania, the U.S. attorney’s office announced Tuesday.

Suspicious envelopes sent to Trump, top military chiefs

Authorities were investigating two envelopes suspected of containing a suspected poison that were addressed to top military chiefs and a third with unknown contents sent to President Donald Trump.

 
Gabby Giffords talks with gun violence survivors at UNLV

They attended a roundtable discussion with former Democratic congresswoman and gun control advocate Gabby Giffords and her husband Capt. Mark Kelly on Tuesday — the day after the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.

 
Amazon increasing minimum pay to $15 for US workers

Amazon is boosting its minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 per hour starting next month and said it will push for an increase in the federally mandated minimum wage, which now stands at $7.25 per hour.

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