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  • Program succeeds in helping kids stay away from trouble after school

    Alcohol, suspension and fights. Tajah Johnson, 14, experienced it all. The Bridger Middle School student, who used to be in and out of foster care, was only 11 years old when she drank alcohol for the first time. "I would go to my friend's house, and we would be drinking and on the phone," she said. "We would talk to boyfriends." Johnson also got into numerous fights ...

  • Clark County coroner IDs victims of apparent murder-suicide

    Two people found dead in an apparent murder-suicide in central Las Vegas on Friday have been identified as Luis Montiel, 29, and Vanniesa Fernandez, 18, according to the Clark County coroner's office. They were found at the Mark 1 Apartments on 1020 E. Desert Inn Road near Maryland Parkway shortly after 3 p.m. when officers were performing a welfare check, Las Vegas police said. One of ...

  • 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 ...


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Dawn of the Dead (1978) [DVD]

Dawn of the Dead (1978) [DVD]

Ten years after he reinvented the American horror film with the seminal Night of the Living Dead (1968), George A. Romero returned to his story of the world being taken over by zombies in Dawn of the Dead, a film that is every bit as shocking, inventive, inte ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 2 wildfires north of Los Angeles persist after long week

    Here's how Montana's members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending May 17, 2013. Votes of Sen. Max Baucus, Democrat; Rep. ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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