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Your teen is “caught in 4K” — and boy, they’re in trouble. This is the definition of the slang expression, according to Dictionary.com: “Caught in 4k is a phrase that means someone was caught in the act of doing something wrong or foolish and there is undeniable evidence to prove it.”

K.L.A.S. T.V. 8 News Now

In Nevada, the first recreational marijuana dispensaries opened in July 2017. The budding business boomed and now there are 698 operational licenses across the state. However, it hasn’t been the financial windfall the cannabis industry was expecting. Easing the federal restrictions on marijuana by reclassifying it could assist businesses that said the federal tax is too much of a burden to thrive.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Nevada cannabis businesses and consumers could likely enjoy lower costs under a federal proposal to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, according to state cannabis experts.

TechXplore

You wanna see her move? I think that's the fun part. The room is thick with anticipation and fabricated skulls. She's gonna wake up. Give her a second. Matt McMullen eyes his creation as her eyes flutter open in return, her gaze settling upon all the disembodied faces and mechanical mandibles surrounding her in this workshop where fake hair co-mingles with real ambition.

Nevada Current

For higher education, one of the biggest challenges leftover from the pandemic years is getting students to sign up. In recent years enrollment at many Nevada higher education institutions — like higher education institutions nationally — has plateaued compared to pre-pandemic levels. But at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas the tide has finally turned.

Psychology Today

In abandoning script, are we sacrificing a piece of identity?

Las Vegas Sun

More than 3.5 million pounds of highly radioactive nuclear waste is buried on a coastal bluff just south of Orange County, near an idyllic beach name-checked in the Beach Boys’ iconic “Surfin’ U.S.A.” Spent fuel rods from the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant were supposed to be sent to a long-planned federal repository in Yucca Mountain, located in Nevada about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

Los Angeles Times

More than 3.5 million pounds of highly radioactive nuclear waste is buried on a coastal bluff just south of Orange County, near an idyllic beach name-checked in the Beach Boys’ iconic “Surfin’ U.S.A.” Spent fuel rods from the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant were supposed to be sent to a long-planned federal repository in Yucca Mountain, located in Nevada about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

CDC Gaming Reports

UNLV has proposed entering into a 99-year ground lease for 42 acres it owns near the Las Vegas Strip that could generate over $1 billion in revenue for the university. The university has asked the Nevada Board of Regents to approve the lease with G2 Capital Development for 42 acres of undeveloped land located just north of the Harry Reid International Airport near the intersection of Tropicana Avenue and Koval Lane.

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