A former Clark County School District official was among five people indicted by a grand jury Friday in the theft of $289,000 in public funds from the district’s Adult English Language Services Acquisition program.
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Las Vegas Fire and Rescue’s bomb squad is on the scene of a possible explosive device at a Walker Furniture store, located 4150 E. Cheyenne Ave., near Lamb Boulevard.
Austen Martinet is a recent success of a job training and placement program created by nonprofit Opportunity Village and the Clark County School District to counter the high unemployment rates of workers with intellectual disabilities.
UNLV students will host an education fair on Saturday aimed at enrolling more Latino students across Nevada campuses.
Las Vegas police are investigating an evening stabbing on Las Vegas Boulevard. Police believe a Hispanic male stabbed another man in the 3300 block of Las Vegas Boulevard North, near Cheyenne Avenue.
Police responded to the 2700 block of East Tropicana Avenue, just east of Eastern Avenue, just after 3 p.m. Friday, where they found a man who was stabbed, said Metro spokesman Jesse Roybal.
Las Vegas Township Constable John Bonaventura moved Friday to untangle his campaign finance records, filing three amended reports in one afternoon in response to a complaint from a close associate.
The June death of her 7-month-old foster daughter prompted Sheila Smith to ask a legislative committee to evaluate Clark County Department of Family Services’ medical policies and procedures on Friday. Smith did take her ailing foster daughter to the hospital, but doctors needed to run a test to treat her condition, which required consent from the biological mother, she said. Family Services couldn’t locate the biological mother and told Smith it would take two weeks to get a court order allowing the baby to undergo the needed medical procedures .
If hogtying is being used to restrain juveniles at state-run facilities, the practice needs to stop immediately, a member of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada said Friday.
Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project has paid $3.48 million to purchase the land and the building housing the historic Atomic Liquors bar at 917 Fremont St., according to Clark County records.