A federal judge in Texas is blocking for now the Obama administration’s directive to U.S. public schools that transgender students must be allowed to use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.
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A white man charged with the shooting deaths of nine black churchgoers in Charleston “self-radicalized” in the months before the attack and grew more entrenched in his beliefs in white supremacy, according to court papers prosecutors filed this week in federal court.
Nevada is one of three states affected by a recall of raw frozen scallops after an outbreak of Hepatitis A in Hawaii, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The Clark County School District has no formal policy on how to accommodate transgender students, so Monday’s ruling by a federal judge in Texas appears to have no immediate impact on the use of bathrooms and locker rooms in public schools here.
Residents at the north end of the Las Vegas Valley will hear more military aircraft noise than usual through Friday from an ongoing Red Flag air combat exercise that began Aug. 15 at Nellis Air Force Base.
A University of Nevada, Reno, expert who played a key role in investigating a 2010 outbreak of cholera in Haiti that was later blamed on U.N. peacekeeping troops says the international organization needs to do more to ensure that it doesn’t contribute to the spread of infectious diseases.
Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson on Monday challenged MGM Resorts International Chairman and CEO Jim Murren’s support of a proposed $1.4 billion upgrade of the Las Vegas Convention Center, calling a new stadium backed by Sands a higher priority for Southern Nevada’s tourism economy.
Amanda Galvan, 16, won a prestigious graphic design competition in the U.S. that was open to university students. She also took eighth place in international competition.
Defense lawyers who want to block Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson’s television show “Las Vegas Law” from filming a murder trial took their argument to the Nevada Supreme Court on Monday.
A construction worker died after scaffolding at a west valley construction site collapsed Monday afternoon, causing the man to fall, officials said.