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Las Vegas shooting survivor shares insights in high school essay

Desert Oasis High School senior Jake Schmidt didn’t plan on writing about what he did on Oct. 1. But in the days after escaping gunfire at the Route 91 Harvest festival, the essay was the only assignment he could sit down and do that week.

Friends, family remember Las Vegas shooting victim’s love of son, Dodgers

Laura Shipp’s Dodger fandom was a theme at the 50-year-old single mother’s celebration of life Sunday at Westlake Village Inn. The reception room filled with around 300 family members and friends, most dressed in Dodger blue, to remember the Las Vegas woman who was one of the 58 killed Oct. 1 at the Route 91 Harvest festival.

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UNR football grad assistant crashes car, charged with DUI

A graduate assistant for the University of Nevada, Reno football program has been arrested on a drunken driving charge after he crashed his car into the Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks.