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Plenty of blame to go around for our unsafe streets

There are all kinds of ways to be safer and last week has proved to us all that we have to do something to get back to paying closer attention to what we’re doing when on the streets.

Republican presidential hopefuls chide Obama for terror speech

Republican presidential candidates roundly criticized President Barack Obama’s Sunday night address to the nation about the U.S. response to the threat of terror, arguing that he lacked a vision and was not aggressive enough.

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Obama, in speech to nation, vows to defeat ‘new phase’ of terrorist threat

President Barack Obama warned Americans on Sunday the terrorist threat to the United States had evolved into a dangerous “new phase” in the aftermath of a deadly California shooting rampage, but vowed to destroy Islamic State and other militant groups.

Budget woes prompt cuts at CSN, affecting tutoring during finals week

Facing a slashed budget and the need to trim spending by $1.8 million this academic year, the College of Southern Nevada has introduced sweeping cost-cutting measures as school leaders prepare to ask for more money from the state next month.

Man killed in hit-and-run incident Friday has been IDd

A man in a wheelchair killed by a hit-and-run driver Friday night while crossing the street in the northeast valley was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.

Lawyer in high-profile criminal cases moonlights as actor

Robert Langford performs many roles. In the past four months alone, he’s worked as a defense attorney in two of the highest profile murder trials in Las Vegas this year. Meanwhile, he’s serving as a special prosecutor in the case against a former valley pastor accused of raping underage girls. He’s also played Ben Weatherstaff, caretaker of The Secret Garden.

Here’s how ISIS raked in $2 billion in 2014 alone

ISIS buys bombs and pays fighters with the billions of dollars it makes from the oil fields, mineral mines, and banks under its control. ISIS also imposes taxes on the people living inside its territory in Iraq and Syria.

 
Officials believe California shooters had planned multiple attacks

U.S. investigators are increasingly convinced the California shooters planned multiple attacks, given their stockpile of weapons, and are looking at whether the Pakistani woman involved radicalized her American husband, officials said on Sunday.

 
Former president Jimmy Carter announces he is cancer-free

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter told a Sunday School class at his church in Georgia that his cancer was gone, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Sunday, citing a church member.