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  • National study rates Nevada teacher education programs low

    Teacher preparation programs in Nevada are not adequately training the next generation of educators, according to a national study that reviewed more than 1,000 programs and was released Tuesday. While some state education leaders say they take the study seriously, others believe the review was flawed and lacks credibility. Programs at the state's colleges and universities received low ...

  • Feds boost homeland security funding for state of Nevada

    CARSON CITY -- Nevada has received a federal homeland security grant of $3.46 million, an increase over last year of nearly $700,000, the state Department of Public Safety announced Tuesday. The grant was awarded to the state Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. "I am pleased Nevada has been awarded this grant, with an ...

  • Clark County proposes Spring Mountains land swap with feds

    Clark County wants to do a land swap with the federal government. County officials want to give up the county's 4.12 acres at Lee Meadows, in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area. In exchange, they want the title to Camp Lee Canyon from the U.S. Forest Service. The move would help prevent fee increases that have been put in place for the camp. Commissioner Larry Brown also said the ...

  • Commissioners pleased with new public process following police-involved shootings

    After five months and three public reviews of police-related fatalities, Clark County commissioners are generally pleased with how the county's new public fatality fact-finding review process works. The commissioners on Tuesday heard a planned, routine report on the process, which offers the public a window into the decisions tied to cases in which police officers use deadly force. ...

  • Man who rushed to save Rep. Giffords fights gun violence in Las Vegas

    His cellphone, his bloody pants and bloody shirt are all sitting in some FBI evidence room in Quantico, Va. And Daniel Hernandez, who helped save the life of Gabrielle Giffords after the then-Democratic congresswoman from Arizona was shot in the head two years ago, said Tuesday he doesn't care to get them back any time soon. They're history, as far as he's concerned; or, rather, ...


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Movie Review

Ordinary People [DVD]

Ordinary People [DVD]

Robert Redford's directorial debut, Ordinary People, is a solemn, studied portrait of a well-to-do American family coming apart from the inside after the tragic death of a son. Based the popular 1976 novel by Judith Guest, its central idea is that all families have inner crises that remain unspoken until something forces them out into the open, which is the true test of the family's streng ... ...

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  • Southern Nevada nature opens eyes of Hispanic youth

    Brushing the hair out of his eyes, Julian Elias tilts his head back and gazes up at something most Las Vegans have seen. The Hoover Dam. But few have the security clearance to view it from the bottom of Black Canyon, a location accessed by a winding worker's road reachable only by those with a key code to open the gate. Standing in the shadow of Hoover Dam's 726-foot wall of water ...

  • Veterans Affairs next wrinkle backlog of appeals

    While the Department of Veterans Affairs scrambles to reduce a staggering backlog of disability claims, another problem has come into view: a backlog of appeals. There are 45,000 appeals waiting to be heard by the Board of Veterans Appeals and the number is expected to swell to 102,000 by 2017, Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., said Tuesday after the VA subcommittee on disability assistance and memorial ...

  • Las Vegas police officer facing drug charges relieved of duty

    A Las Vegas police officer facing felony drug charges has been relieved of duty, law enforcement sources said. Officer Ramin Amely, who had been with the department since May 2007, has agreed to plead guilty to two felony drug counts in Clark County Justice Court, according to the district attorney's office. Amely was last assigned to the Metropolitan Police Department's Traffic ...

  • Las Vegas Sands chief Adelson expected to return to stand

    Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson will likely return to the witness stand next month. The wrongful termination lawsuit brought in Clark County District Court by former Sand China Ltd. CEO Steven Jacobs has been set for a weeklong hearing starting on July 16 over the initial question where a trial should take place. Clark County District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez penciled in ...

  • BREAKING NEWS Firefighters Battling House Fire Near McCarran Airport

    LAS VEGAS -- Clark County Fire Department is battling a fire at a house near Russell Road and Spencer Street. According to the fire department's website, the fire started at around 4:30 p.m. ...

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