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When Sydney Stern bought an Apple Watch four years ago, she was excited to try out all the new features, especially the sleep tracker. A health scientist, the 27-year-old Maryland resident was well aware of the correlation between sleep and disease prevention. But what Stern thought would be a boon to her health became a harm, leading to anxiety and, in the end, less sleep.
A secret courthouse romance has spurred ethics investigations and a fight over millions in legal fees.
Boeing’s run of losses, production delays and financial struggles has taken another turn for the worse over the last week as the iconic American manufacturer announced it would lay off 10% of its workforce and rescinded an offer to its largest union that is on a strike that is costing the company tens of millions each day it continues.
Question 1 on the Nevada ballot proposes amendments to modify the authorities of the Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents. Another election means another go at trying to make question one a law. It failed in 2020.
Joyce Mack arrived in Las Vegas in 1947 after meeting her future husband, Jerry, at UCLA. She was 22 years old, the city had fewer than 25,000 people and the Strip’s first resort had opened only a few years earlier.
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Findings from researchers at UNLV show a major housing issue for Nevadans. According to the Lied Center for Real Estate, 40 percent of all newcomers to Las Vegas are moving here from California. They analyzed income data from the LRS and discovered those Californians are coming here with more cash in their pockets to buy a home than an average Nevada homebuyer.
The ҳ| 鶹ýӳ (UNLV) and Nevada State Police are working on a first-of-its-kind partnership focusing on the mental health of troopers. It’s all about managing stress to improve their personal and professional lives.
On the evening of October 5, 1969, Gerald Davis stepped out of his house in West Las Vegas to fix his mother’s car and noticed police officers had pulled over a taxicab nearby. Known by residents as the “Westside,” this Black-majority area is located west of downtown, literally divided by the railroad tracks running through the city. Patrol vehicles were a familiar sight on the Westside, though younger residents claimed the police seemed less interested in civil service and more prone to brutality and intimidation.