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  • UNLV holds 50th commencement Sunday

    UNLV will celebrate its 50th commencement on Sunday with about 2,500 graduates receiving diplomas. Ceremonies are scheduled for 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Thomas & Mack Center. Since its original days in the early 1950s, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has become the largest public university in the state. It has awarded more than 109,000 degrees since its original graduating class in 1964 ...

  • Jimmy Kimmel going back to school to open computer lab he funded

    Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel donated money to equip the Jimmy Kimmel Technology Center at Ed W. Clark High School. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday, the 1985 Clark High School graduate and former band member, entertained the crowd with his bass clarinet ...

  • Final two weeks Legislative process heads into high gear

    CARSON CITY -- Nevada lawmakers are steamrolling into the final two weeks of the 2013 session -- a time when action behind the scenes can move at a dizzying pace while the public process dissolves into a mode of hurry up and wait. There is no logic to "legislative time." Committees scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. might not convene until afternoon. Five-minute recesses can stretch into ...

  • Vegas investors to raise a glass to atomic history

    Derek Stonebarger, from left, Lance Johns and his brother Kent, pictured April 29, 2013, are the new owners of Atomic Liquors in downtown Las Vegas, a bar that celebrates the city's nuclear tourism at the start of the Cold War. (John Glionna/Los Angeles ...

  • Up to 60 injured after car drives into Virginia parade

    Hiker "Quinoa" talks about being given credit for saving the lives of Carson Balckburn, Dalton Thomason, and Faith Ritchie after he ran them and others off the road with a water gun during a festival parade in Damascus, Va., on Saturday. Just as the children ran off the street, a car came down the road and struck several ...


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Death at a Funeral

Death at a Funeral

While Hollywood is notorious for remaking foreign films to fit homegrown expectations--usually under the assumption that, no matter how good the film, American audiences dont like reading subtitles and watching characters from other cultures unless theyre being viewed through ... ...

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  • Legislators cut budget pain for rural Nevada colleges

    CARSON CITY -- Two rural Nevada colleges will feel less budget pain than initially proposed under actions taken by legislative money committees Saturday. Lawmakers on the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committees agreed to add $1 million a year to reduce losses Great Basin and Western Nevada colleges would realize under a new higher education funding formula. The action holds the ...

  • Legislative money panels adopt Sandoval mental health funding

    CARSON CITY -- The Legislature's money committees on Saturday approved nearly $6.5 million in new funding for mental health programs, using money from a windfall tobacco settlement as recommended by Gov. Brian Sandoval. The additional funding includes $1.4 million for a second Program for Assertive Community Treatment team in Southern Nevada. The PACT team will work with mental health ...

  • Suspect identified in fatal Hofstra home invasion

    Last Sunday Andrea Rebello, a 21-year-old Hofstra University junior studying public relations, posted a recipe for how to prepare July 4-themed strawberries covered in sparkling sugars on her ...

  • Former Philadelphia cop billed as hero now faces charges

    PHILADELPHIA -- A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes. Authorities allege that former officer Richard DeCoatsworth left a party with two females early Thursday and took them to another location, where they allege that he produced a handgun and ...

  • Majority of possible Powerball combinations purchased

    A woman prepares to choose her numbers on a lottery ticket Saturday in the Chinatown district in Oakland, Calif. A record Powerball jackpot has climbed to $600 million, and lottery officials speculated the jackpot would continue to soar in the run-up to Saturday's ...

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