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‘Defend Freedom’ bus tour aims at backlog of veterans benefits claims

Concerned Veterans for America will launch a nationwide bus tour from Las Vegas on Friday to heighten awareness about the Department of Veterans Affairs foot-dragging in its effort to reduce a staggering backlog of 500,000 benefits claims.

Financial aid errors to cost College of Southern Nevada $1.7 million

The college will have to reimburse the U.S. Department of Education $790,000 for the 2011-12 fiscal year because it overpaid federal financial aid to students. It will pay an additional $866,000 for overpayments during the 2012-13 fiscal year, although that number could still change slightly, according to college officials.

As government shutdown goes on, local outdoor businesses take hit

As the federal shutdown approaches its first weekend, people in the recreation business gathered outside the locked gates at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and called on Congress to do its job.

New UNLV stadium authority board finalized

Two powerful local lawyers — Wynn Resorts general counsel Kim Sinatra and Ultimate Fighting Championship chief legal officer Kirk Hendrick — were appointed Thursday to the UNLV panel that will develop a feasibility, scope, cost estimate and funding proposal for a new on-campus stadium.

 
Police shoot, kill driver after chase near U.S. Capitol

A woman driving a black Infiniti with a young child inside tried to ram through a White House barricade Thursday, then led police on a chase toward the Capitol, where police shot and killed her, witnesses and officials said.

20-year-old who died in scooter crash identified

The 20-year-old man who died after his scooter collided with pickup truck at Lake Mead Boulevard and D Street has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.

Wife of man attacked by bikers: We were in ‘grave danger’

The driver of an SUV involved in a bloody weekend confrontation with a throng of motorcyclists was put in grave danger and feared for the life of his family inside when he drove through the crowd, striking a biker on the street, his wife said Thursday.

Pills made from poop cure serious gut infections

Hold your nose and don’t spit out your coffee: Doctors have found a way to put healthy people’s poop into pills that can cure serious gut infections — a less yucky way to do “fecal transplants.”

 
Death toll in migrant boat shipwreck near Italy rises to 114

A ship carrying African migrants to Europe caught fire and capsized Thursday off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, killing at least 114 people as hundreds were dumped into the sea, officials said.