CARSON CITY — Researchers at Nevada’s medical school and University Medical Center in Las Vegas will share $8 million for projects and programs aimed at improving women’s health, thanks to a 2014 settlement with a major drug company, the attorney general’s office announced Wednesday.
The state will spend up to $44,000 to have an expert review the homicide of a Clark County foster girl while in care and other child fatalities and near fatalities across Nevada.
Leaders of the state’s two largest charter school sponsors met for the first time Wednesday to plan for the coming legislative session that many expect will focus on expanding school choice.
It’s been a mostly quiet Election Day across Clark County. More than 34,000 registered voters had cast a ballot by 10:30 a.m., right about in line with the lackluster mid-morning voter tallies seen in past midterm elections.
The state’s public college campuses plan to continue to ban pot even as Nevada is moving toward opening its first medical marijuana dispensaries early next year, the Board of Regents indicated Thursday.
The term “pay to play” carries nefarious overtones when it comes to politics. Some sports enthusiasts might say the same when when it comes to baseball and soccer field fee increases in Las Vegas. Only it’s “pay more to play.”
A man convicted in the death of his 4-year-old son who was left in an SUV in June 2008 should get a new trial on myriad issues, including that Stanley Rimer should have been tried separately from his wife, his lawyer told the Nevada Supreme Court Wednesday.
O.J. Simpson’s lawyers were given another week Friday to reformat and resubmit an appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court seeking a new trial in the kidnapping and armed robbery case of the former football star.
The UNLV presidential search committee wants a diverse group of three to five candidates to visit campus and complete interviews, but a deadline will not be set.
Henderson officials are introducing a new paid time-off system for nonunion employees to reduce the city’s post employment payout liability by millions of dollars.
