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Las Vegas dental clinic provides health care to at-risk students

Clark High School ninth-grader Sara Dula hadn’t seen a dentist in years. Her family couldn’t afford it. Her lack of regular check-ups would have continued had the dentist not come to her. Future Smiles, a nonprofit group that provides oral health care to at-risk students, opened a clinic last month in a modular building at Clark, 4291 W. Pennwood Ave.

UNLV researcher wants to drive you to distraction

Pushkin Kachroo is an author, a researcher and a professor at UNLV, and he’s going to change the way you think about driving your car.

TV, radio ads aim to stop bullying at schools

Anti-bullying commercials, starring Palo Verde students, are being aired across Nevada as part of an anti-bullying campaign called Flip the Script.

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Anti-bullying meeting airs statewide

It’s not often that a high school meeting is broadcast live across the state, but Monday’s gathering at Del Sol High School centered on a topic that touches a multitude of lives – bullying.

Nevada State College students practice medical skills in Ethiopia

Eight Nevada State College students spent two weeks this summer in Ethiopia as part of a medical mission with NSC professors Kebret Kebede and Robin Herlands and Spring Valley Hospital surgery technician Lance Bocobo. They performed surgeries at Black Lion Hospital and lectured at Addis Ababa University Medical School in Addis Ababa.

Parents stunned by Arbor View teacher’s text rant

Melissa Sharp’s cellphone buzzed. It was a text sent during school from her daughters’ band teacher. Strange, she thought. What was wrong?

Archambault honored Friday as top middle school principal in U.S.

Linda Archambault learned this week — which she spent in Washington, D.C., meeting President Barack Obama on Friday — that being a hardworking middle school principal can have its perks.

CSN students, charity cultivate unused lots for produce

Outside the culinary school at the College of Southern Nevada sit five dead gardens. They have sat there for years, serving virtually no purpose.

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