Lawmakers made incremental progress Wednesday on plugging a $1.2 billion pandemic-created state budget hole but concluded Day 8 of their special session leaving one of the heaviest lifts still on the table — a proposed half-billion dollar slashing of state agency budgets.
Nevada’s unemployment rate dropped sharply last month as casinos reopened from a lengthy lockdown, but plenty of people remain out of work.
The data posted Wednesday by the Southern Nevada Health District pushed total cases for the county to 25,611 and raised the death toll to 502.
The president said the Department of Justice would seek the death penalty for MS-13 members convicted of capital crimes.
