The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada has chosen the Las Vegas Review-Journal as its latest Emilie Wanderer Civil Libertarian of the Year award winner for its series on police shootings.
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Two Las Vegas natives sat side by side on stage, each an example of life lived in the extreme. Here was Vernon Fox, a retired safety who played eight seasons in the National Football League. There was James Allen, a former gang member who spent 28 years behind bars for killing a man during a 1980 home break-in.
Southern Nevada officials on Friday learned the region will lose about $3 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency grant funds this year, a 60 percent cut from fiscal 2011.
The conditions of three children injured in a fire Wednesday have been upgraded, according to a hospital spokeswoman.
For an hour on Wednesday, Ben Lesser and four other local Jewish Holocaust survivors shared their history with Clark County students assembled at the Northwest Career and Technical Academy, near the Las Vegas Beltway and U.S. Highway 95, as part of the 2012 Holocaust Education Conference.