On average, Las Vegas welcomes 2,200 refugees per year. To help ease the burden of resettlement, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with the help of Catholic Charities, will host a refugee drive on May 21.
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They come from various places and different backgrounds. They also work for free. Summerlin Hospital relies on its volunteers — a force 250 strong — to help pick up the slack.
In 1993, Henderson resident Linda Flatt looked for a support group to help her deal with her son’s suicide — she didn’t find one. “I went to a general grief group and I felt completely out of place,” she said. “I was in there with people that had lost their (spouses) after 60 years of marriage, and my kid had ended his life on purpose.”
Henderson-based company Aerodrome celebrated International Drone Day on May 7 at the Eldorado Droneport in Boulder City. The event included tutorials and drone racing.
LinkedIn said Wednesday that a 2012 breach resulted in more than 100 million of its users’ passwords being compromised — vastly more than previously thought.
Henderson resident Rana Goodman was there to look after and take care of her father at the end of his life. She was surprised to learn that many seniors don’t have someone looking out for them toward the end of their lives, which led her on a crusade to speak about issues facing seniors. She recently was recognized as the Nevada Senior Citizen of the Year.
Crimebusters! took place at the Veterans Tribute Career Techincal Academy, 2531 Vegas Drive, on May 2 and showed kids and their parents how to not only extract DNA from a strawberry but how facial reconstruction is used to help identify victims from skeletal remains, how to dust for fingerprints, how to use a microscope and several other ways science helps investigators solve crimes.
An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday morning, Egyptian aviation officials said.
Perhaps it’s the aftershock of the 2008 recession, or the impending exit of a two-term president, but most voters are wondering how a new president might affect their finances.