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A 70-year-old grandmother driving her 10-year-old grandchild to school runs a red light and is rammed by a school bus. At least 15 children on the bus were taken to hospitals, Maria Castillo was killed and her granddaughter was critically injured. Soon after that story broke, two words came to mind: distracted driving.
Herb Randall, who was awarded the Silver and Bronze Star medals for valor in Vietnam, knows the importance of helping others. Four years ago he began the Nevada Senior Citizen Award, an honor that goes to a senior citizen for helping other seniors.
Charm McElree grew up hearing stories about how her uncle died serving his country during World War II. When her brother served in the Marines during the Vietnam War, she prayed for his safe return.
James Allman did every drug imaginable, and though he worked in construction, he needed more money than he made to pay for it. So he turned to robbery and burglary.
After Brandon Moran came down with an illness that forced him onto dialysis, his friend Jacob McCulloch decided to see if he could donate a kidney to Moran, which would allow him to live a normal life.
Former Las Vegas cop Laurie Bisch, who ran unsuccessfully for sheriff and city council, now finds meaning restoring homes and selling them. She is a big supporter of community policing.
Spring Valley Town Advisory Board meeting attendees probably don’t know that the panel’s chairman, John Getter, was nominated to be the first reporter in space.
It was one of those things that was always in the back of Bill Kading’s mind.
Civil rights, feminism, the anti-Vietnam War movement, gay rights, rights for the disabled. Given what’s happened in those areas during the six decades baby boomers have monopolized the nation’s cultural, political and economic landscape, it’s not surprising that many researchers characterize boomers, and that includes me, as positive social and political rabble-rousers.
For years, he said, scientists have been studying — basically in relation to brain cancer — the form of energy given off by cellphones known as radiofrequency waves, a type of nonionizing radiation that the International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.”
This will be the first Mother’s Day without my first health care provider. Alzheimer’s took her out in January.
The patient-provider relationship was always excellent: Mom always found a way to give her patients, or rather her children, the attention they deserved.
He could be attending medical conferences in Austria or London or Paris and he would always get back to them by email within a couple of hours.
No matter where Dr. Nicholas Vogelzang was, Roxane Quinn said, he never was too busy to call in prescriptions or to answer questions about the condition of her ailing husband.
