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College of Southern Nevada anthropology and communications professor Jennifer Basquiat will be teaching a spring course called “Zombies, Fear, and the Other,” which will explore zombies from voodoo folklore to cult horror films to cultural phenomenon.
A Kingman, Ariz., schoolteacher vindicated at trial Wednesday expressed relief and was critical of the decision to prosecute him for sex crimes alleged by a Boulder City teenager.
Behind the doors of an unremarkable building in an older part of town, there is a woman who has given birth more than 1,000 times, a man who regularly fakes post-traumatic stress disorder and a storage room with stacks of babies. It’s just another day at the office for the staff of the Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas.
A group of local pastors, parents and community leaders called Wednesday on the Clark County School District to break its months-long silence regarding the alleged test score scandal at Kelly Elementary School.
The Washoe County School Board has named Deputy Superintendent Traci Davis the interim superintendent through the middle of next year.
The newest little ones to join a class at Lummis Elementary School didn’t pass kindergarten last year, but they’re helping students learn a love for reading. The two newcomers are Abbey and Spectra, sister hamsters. Jill Delaney, Lummis’ librarian, acquired the critters last year through the Pets in the Classroom grant program.
The candidate running against Clark County School Board President Erin Cranor filed an ethics complaint against her Thursday for Cranor’s actions described in a lawsuit against the district and her, individually.
The parents of a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide in December have filed a wrongful death lawsuit that accuses White Middle School officials of failing to notify them of a bullying complaint involving their daughter.
A medical doctor, a business school adminstrator and the UNLV provost were unveiled Monday as the three candidates to be the next president at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Earlier this week at the Cleveland Clinic’s Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, more than 30 of UNLV’s interior health design students quizzed doctors and providers as part of an ongoing interactive educational collaboration.
Embattled Clark County School Board President Erin Cranor ended her silence Friday to declare she won’t resign or pull out of the November election, as requested by her opponent in the race for District G.
The opponent of Clark County School Board President Erin Cranor is calling for her to “immediately resign her position and declare that she is no longer seeking re-election.”
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