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Every day, Luis Avila fears immigration officials might show up and say it’s time to go. But that’s about to change for him and an estimated 1.7 million other young illegal immigrants expected to apply for a two-year work permit that will allow them temporary legal status in a country where they’ve lived most of their lives.
Students from 34 schools gathered Wednesday for the Clark County School District’s first summer graduation ceremony. The 314 seniors in caps and gowns made up their high school work in proficiency-exam boot camps and through credit-recovery tutoring to earn diplomas in August.
It took more than a half million tons of gravel and asphalt, more than two years of work and almost a quarter billion dollars, but six miles of traffic jams on Interstate 15 south have become mostly smooth sailing. Transportation officials gathered Wednesday to celebrate completion of the project from Tropicana Avenue to Silverado Ranch Boulevard.