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After a five-year hiatus due to lost leadership, the College of Southern Nevada’s honors program is being resurrected by professor Patrick Quinn and others from the English department. Beginning in fall 2014, the school will offer advanced classes.
Air Force Airman Katlyn M. Porter graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio. Porter is the daughter of Donna Porter of Henderson and George Porter of Glendale, Calif. She is a 2011 graduate of Basic High School.
A late night shooting Tuesday night near Washington Avenue and Tonopah Drive has left one man dead, according to Las Vegas police.
The Desert Research Institute will open its doors Wednesday night for a rare — and free — look inside some of its labs in Las Vegas. The open house, called Science LIVE!, will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at 755 E. Flamingo Road, next to the National Atomic Testing Museum just west of Swenson Street.
A teen was hit by a car in the southwest valley Tuesday evening, police say. A 16-year-old boy got off of a bus at Jones Boulevard and Rochelle Avenue, near Flamingo Road, about 7 p.m.
Las Vegas police shot and killed a man who they say fired at multiple officers during a barricade situation in the east valley Tuesday afternoon.
Defense lawyers launched an opening-day offensive on Tuesday attacking the government’s chief witness in the federal trial of three Cuban immigrants charged with stealing drugs and high-quality merchandise from delivery vans and warehouses around the Las Vegas Valley. The witness, Yordani Corona Del Toro, a 23-year-old felon and “gang-banger,” struck a deal with federal prosecutors in the case to escape a sentence of life in prison in Nevada as a habitual criminal, the defense lawyers said in their opening statements.
The College of Southern Nevada is now a minority-serving institution for Asian American, Native American and Pacific Islander students. The designation, announced Monday and issued by the U.S. Department of Education, recognizes the CSN student body is composed of more than 50 percent low-income or Pell Grant eligible students and at least 10 percent of the student population identifies with the ethnicities indicated by the award.
PANDA! at The Palazzo has taken up longterm residency in Las Vegas and Chinese producers are hoping to provide cultural bonding.
