Las Vegas Metro Police say three people have died and one person remains hospitalized in stable condition after a shooting at UNLV Wednesday afternoon. The suspect also died. Sheriff Kevin McMahill told reporters during a media conference Wednesday evening that Metro knew the identity of the suspect, but declined to release that information until after the next of kin had been notified. Late Wednesday, the Associated Press, quoting law enforcement sources, reported the shooter was 67-year-old Anthony Polito.
This Sunday morning in Hawaii began like the previous ones at Pearl Harbor, built as a strategic location for the USS Navy as ships began to crisscross the Pacific Ocean in the early 1900s between the United States mainland and territories in Guam and the Philippines. First, under the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and then William Howard Taft, Congress approved millions of dollars to complete a port where U.S. warships could dock and refuel as they crisscrossed the Pacific and also provide a window on The Far East … or primarily on the eastern Asian countries of China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines.
Dear reader, recent news about the mysterious dog flu has been flooding the internet, newspapers, and Facebook. One veterinarian said there was no need to panic because over the entire United States there have only been about 200 dogs in 14 states who have been diagnosed positive. Dr. Jandrey at UC Davis issued a statement telling pet owners to remain aware and diligent but not to sound the alarm that a pandemic is coming for dogs.
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CARSON CITY — Open Enrollment through NevadaHealthLink.com is the one time of year Nevadans can freely enroll or make changes to their health insurance plan without experiencing a qualifying life event. Nevada’s Open Enrollment Period began on November 1 and 14,570 Nevadans have already taken action to actively shop and enroll in plans in the first month.
Lunches are served each weekday at noon and soup and croutons is served at 11 a.m. the Pleasant Senior Center, 1480 Lay Street. Lunches are open to the public. Suggested minimum donation is $4 for seniors age 60 and older. Visitors must be 16 years or older. Their meal is $10. Hot soup at croutons served daily with meal. Low-fat milk available daily. Safety of food after it has been served & taken from the center is the responsibility of the consumer.
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The Board of Regents in charge of Nevada’s public higher education system voted unanimously on Friday to approve a historically large 11 percent cost-of-living raise for faculty in 2025, a move many faculty have lauded as long overdue. But that raise will be funded in part by an additional 5 percent hike in student registration fees, the largest one-year increase since 2012. That increase would add on to existing planned increases of 1.8 percent in fall 2024 and 2.7 percent in fall 2025.
A Nevada grand jury has indicted the six Republicans — including the chair of the Nevada Republican Party — who falsely pledged Nevada’s electoral votes to Donald Trump following the 2020 election despite President Joe Biden’s victory in the state. Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat, announced the indictments Wednesday of state party chair Michael McDonald, national committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid, Clark County Republican Party chair Jesse Law (who announced plans to run for state Assembly on Wednesday), state party vice chair Jim Hindle III, Shawn Meehan and Eileen Rice.
In a major legal test of a landmark 2019 law that allowed state workers to unionize, a Carson City judge ruled against Nevada’s largest state worker union Thursday, preserving a veto from Gov. Joe Lombardo that scuttled a $25 million appropriation funding a now-2-year-old state worker arbitration agreement.
Overnight eastbound Interstate 80 traffic will be detoured to travel over interstate ramps at West Winnemucca exit 173 during the week of Dec. 18 as the Nevada Department of Transportation makes bridge repairs.
RENO – The organizers of the Burning Man festival narrowly passed their environmental inspection after mass torrential rains closed roads, jammed traffic and forced many to walk miles barefoot through muck, leaving trails of debris in the remote Nevada desert, according to a Nov. 29 report from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
An advanced geothermal project has begun pumping carbon-free electricity onto the Nevada grid to power Google data centers there, Google announced Nov. 28. Getting electrons onto the grid for the first time is a milestone many new energy companies never reach, said Tim Latimer, CEO and co-founder of Google’s geothermal partner in the project, Houston-based Fervo Energy.
On Tuesday, Nov. 28, a sizable portion of Lovelock gathered in the high school auditorium. They came to see the fall sports athletes receive recognition from their coaches and league.