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  • 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, ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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. ...

  • 91 residents find help from Red Cross management company

    Las Vegas firefighters work at the scene of a three-alarm blaze at the Encantada apartment complex at 401 N. 28th Street in Las Vegas on Sunday. The fire displaced 91 residents, and Advanced Management Group has made sure they had shelter at the company's other properties. Families, neighbors and the Red Cross have also ...

  • Review-Journal wins four Best of the West awards

    Las Vegas Review-Journal staffers won four awards in the 2013 Best of the West contest, including first place in general interest column writing. Best of the West is a contest that rewards journalistic excellence in 14 western states including Nevada. "Obviously the competition is really tough when you're going up against the best newspapers west of the Mississippi," ...

  • Nevada justices reject immigrants drivers license request

    CARSON CITY -- The state Supreme Court has denied granting a Nevada driver's license to a man who might have been better off waiting for the new state driver's authorization cards to go into effect in January. A panel of the high court, in a unanimous 3-0 decision issued last week, refused Laszlo Schoka's petition that the Department of Motor Vehicles be ordered to grant him a ...

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