The Clark County School Board voted Wednesday to shift attendance boundaries for eight elementary schools, one middle school and one high school for 2014-2015. The Clark County School District campuses targeted by rezoning are struggling with enrollments that exceed their capacities.
A California farming town was grappling Wednesday with a profound violation of trust after learning the acting police chief and a handful of officers were charged with selling or giving away the impounded cars of poor Hispanic residents and other crimes.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid criticized a pair of billionaire brothers in unusually harsh terms Wednesday, accusing the conservative duo of being “un-American,” spreading lies about President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul and lacking a conscience.
Hospital emergency rooms throughout the valley are closing their doors to ambulances because the mentally ill are now occupying available beds at a rate higher than in 2004, when the problem prompted then Gov. Kenny Guinn to declare a state of emergency.
The state’s multi-agency investigation of a Las Vegas elementary school for possible irregularities in student test scores is drawing to a close and findings will be written in a couple weeks, State Superintendent of Public Schools Dale Erquiaga said on Wednesday. He will present the investigation’s findings to the Nevada Board of Education in April.
Metro said Monday that its traffic officers will stop responding to minor, non-injury traffic collisions beginning on Monday as response times climb near 90 minutes. About 60 percent of the traffic accidents Las Vegas police respond to are non-injury accidents. (File, Greg Haas/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Nevada Board of Education decided Wednesday to lower the minimum passing score on the math test required to graduate high school to 242 out of 500 possible points for current sophomores and juniors. Previously, these students needed to earn a minimum score of 300.
House leaders agreed to postpone committee votes Thursday on a bill to create a national monument in Southern Nevada after a furor erupted over profits from land sales in the measure, lawmakers said.
Neighbors heard the smoke alarms going off, and found the man laying next to a bed that was on fire when they entered his apartment.
Firefighters rescued a 39-year-old woman Wednesday morning after she drove off the road and plunged 400 feet into a canyon in Orange County.
