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Teachers, coaches make Vegas robotics teams possible

As more than 43 high school teams convened for the FIRST® Robotics Las Vegas Regional Competition, it’s easy to focus on the students and the intricate robots they designed, but their mentors and coaches are the reason they’re able to compete in the first place.

 
Apartment fire closes Tropicana at McLeod

Westbound Tropicana Avenue near McLeod Drive remains closed after an apartment complex caught fire, sending up a black plume of smoke visible for miles away.

 
Reid won’t seek re-election to Senate in 2016

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid announced Friday that he will not seek re-election, a decision that signals the oncoming end of an era in Nevada and scrambles the political landscape in the state and in the nation’s capital.

 
Nevada Army Guard welcomes last of the Lakota copters

It’s the last of the Lakotas. Nevada Army National Guard leaders on Friday showed off their new, UH-72A Lakota helicopter, the last of 212 ordered by the Army and one of only 345 produced for the U.S. military.

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B-52 bomber a marathon aircraft both in time and distance

They’re big. They’re ugly. And they fly. No, they’re not mosquitoes from Alaska. They’re B-52 Stratofortress bombers from North Dakota. And they’re old too. Older than the pilots who fly them.

 
Judge takes cake for DUI program graduate

Ashley Michelle Agerbeek struggled through DUI court for more than a year, so much so that Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Joe Sciscento nearly kicked her out of the moderate offenders program.

 
Anti-drone protesters arrested at Creech Air Force Base

Metro police arrested Father Louis Vitale and 32 others early Friday for trespassing at Creech Air Force Base where 140 peace activists had gathered to protest U.S. drone operations in the Middle East and Afghanistan that are controlled remotely at the base, 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

 
Police blame triple homicide on suicidal man

Las Vegas police said a suicidal man is responsible for killing three people before shooting himself Tuesday night.