Jim Rogers, the former chancellor of Nevada’s university system and owner of KSNV-DT, died on Saturday, according to a report from KSNV. Rogers had been battling cancer.
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The U.S. demographic of children who are born in other countries or who are being raised by an immigrant parent is growing. In 2012, there were 57,000 such children living in the city of Las Vegas, according to the latest numbers available from the Kids Count data center, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation based in Baltimore. That represented 40 percent of the 142,000 Las Vegas children under the age of 18.
Don’t be surprised to hear Divya Ramakrishnan unconsciously pepper her conversation with terms such as “cum grano salis” (with a grain of salt) and “suum cuique” (to each his own). The 18-year-old has perhaps earned the right to dispense such phrases so easily as the first student in Nevada history to earn five gold medals on the National Latin Exam.
A suspect in the deaths of two people near Reno died after exchanging gunfire with law officers following a high-speed chase Friday night, authorities said.
U.S. Senate Democrats failed to muster enough support last week to advance legislation to allow borrower to refinance student loans.
Slain Metro officer Alyn Beck was remembered at his memorial service Saturday as a loyal husband and dedicated father to three children, a mentor for fellow officers, and a kind-hearted jokester.
Allegiant Air said a flight from Las Vegas to Missoula, Mont., was diverted after a light warned of a problem with the plane’s hydraulic system.
A man sitting on a ledge shut down traffic for hours in Henderson Saturday afternoon.
Nevada hikers and bikers seek a little federal help for the American Discovery Trail, a coast-to-coast trail stretches 496 miles through Nevada from Baker to Incline Village, goes over 10,000- and 12,000-foot mountain summits, through thick stands of aspen, crosses paths of elk herds and mountain lions and along the shore of Lake Tahoe.
Las Vegas police have arrested Marvin Moran, 36, in connection with Friday’s homicide near South Durango Drive and Sahara Avenue, a killing detectives say was domestic related.