Nevada Democrat urges Homeland Security Secretary-nominee Kirstjen Nielsen to erase proposed budget cuts to the Urban Area Security Initiative grants in light of the Las Vegas mass shooting.
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The $14.8 million U.S. Department of Education grant will allow Gehring Elementary and Lied and O’Callaghan middle schools, all in Las Vegas, to fully convert to magnet schools with a focus on science, technology, engineering and math.
The city of Las Vegas is learning from the way Clark County is handling the collection and management of funds for Las Vegas shooting victims.
Henderson resident Shannon Fleming is raising money for Las Vegas shooting victims on her website, wtfclothing.net, but she doesn’t know what to do with the money.
Victims of the Las Vegas shooting will have to apply to receive money raised on their behalf and might have to wait six months for payment, a victim-compensation expert told the Review-Journal.
Nearly 1-in-4 people living in the historic West Las Vegas area reported last year that they did not have reliable access to affordable, nutritious food. The area is located in ZIP code 89106, which has Clark County’s highest rate of food insecurity.
Wooden crosses memorializing each of the 58 people killed during the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting will be moved to the Clark County Museum on Nov. 12, the county announced Friday.
They road-tripped from Southern California, or jetted from as far as Massachusetts or Canada, bound to see their favorite country musicians play on the Las Vegas Strip.
The Clark County Museum has begun collecting tributes left on the Strip and other public areas in response to the Las Vegas shooting in order to preserve and catalog them.
A judge is expected to soon make a decision on who will own the storied Bonanza Road property, the site of the first racially integrated casino/hotel in Las Vegas. Four groups have bid on the site, and all but the county want to bring back the Moulin Rouge.
The freeze was imposed in August as the district began tackling a budget deficit estimated at $50 million to $60 million.
Growing up in segregated New Orleans, Rev. Donald Clark’s mother always kept a close eye on him in public. If she didn’t, the black boy was likely to drink from a water fountain the government mandated only whites could use.
No date has been set for when millions of dollars donated for the victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting will be distributed, but major steps forward in planning should be taken this week, Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak said Sunday.
Clark County commissioners and staff will meet with representatives of a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit Thursday to determine how best to deliver donated money to victims of the Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting, County Manager Yolanda King said.
