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Every day, Luis Avila fears immigration officials might show up and say it’s time to go. But that’s about to change for him and an estimated 1.7 million other young illegal immigrants expected to apply for a two-year work permit that will allow them temporary legal status in a country where they’ve lived most of their lives.
Students from 34 schools gathered Wednesday for the Clark County School District’s first summer graduation ceremony. The 314 seniors in caps and gowns made up their high school work in proficiency-exam boot camps and through credit-recovery tutoring to earn diplomas in August.
It took more than a half million tons of gravel and asphalt, more than two years of work and almost a quarter billion dollars, but six miles of traffic jams on Interstate 15 south have become mostly smooth sailing. Transportation officials gathered Wednesday to celebrate completion of the project from Tropicana Avenue to Silverado Ranch Boulevard.
What should have been a routine traffic stop in 2011 ended in a shootout in which Las Vegas police officer Patrick Burke killed a man who had served more than 13 years in prison for second-degree murder. Burke was one of 18 Metropolitan Police Department officers and 12 supervisors honored Wednesday for going “above and beyond the call of duty.”
Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins is facing misdemeanor charges for unlawfully discharging a firearm within the city limits and disturbing the peace the night of July 3, the North Las Vegas city attorney’s office announced Wednesday.
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Speakers at a Board of Regents meeting expressed disappointment in a lack of response from the board and UNLV leadership on a recent commencement speech.
Experts said there are significant safety hazards that in-flight turbulence poses to airline passengers and crews. Injuries have piled up over the years.
