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Kendra Still’s career as a Nevada state trooper unexpectedly ended after 14 years when she was injured in a crash with a wrong-way driver on the 215 Beltway. Still, now the Nevada Department of Public Safety’s wellness program manager, is helping institute a new resiliency training program designed for the highway patrol. The first session of the program, developed by UNLV’s Tourist Safety Institute and the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs, was hosted Wednesday by UNLV professors Steven Pace and Nicholas Barr.

K.T.N.V. T.V. ABC 13

The fall semester for UNLV kicks off Monday morning. Not only will students and staff be back on campus, but UNLV will be rolling out all of their new security improvements.

M.S.N.

The Nevada vote for president could determine a razor-thin election, and eliminating federal taxes on tips could dictate that outcome and potentially pose unintended consequences. Las Vegas workers depend on tips, and some of them on the Strip said customers give them over $500 a night during busy seasons. But that’s not what they or off-Strip workers are taking home.

M.S.N.

UNLV reopened Beam Hall after the deadly campus shooting this summer for fall students. FOX5 previously reported the changes made and upgrades. Reporter Joe Vigil also took a tour.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

United States Vice President Kamala Harris, smiling and shaking hands with her husband, Douglas Emhoff, greeted thousands of supporters inside Chicago's United Center as red, white and blue balloons dropped from the ceiling. The 59-year-old politician gave the most important speech in her life on the evening of August 22, after accepting the nomination of the Democratic Party as a presidential candidate.

Casinos.com

Recreational cannabis has been legal in Nevada since 2017. By most measures legal pot has been a success, serving the public while generating nearly a billion dollars in sales and more than $130 million in tax revenue annually without causing significant societal harm.

Yahoo!

Before the lights and the cameras and the action of Hollywood can come to Nevada, there must come approval of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax incentives. That’s the position of two major film studios hoping to build production studios in the Las Vegas Valley.

Yahoo!

With Election Day approaching, candidates are courting voters with everything they’ve got: targeted ads, texts, taunts and stump speeches. As a fashion historian, I think an overlooked aspect of electioneering is clothing, which is a silent, powerful way for candidates to tell the American public who they are.

Forbes

With nearly 43 million Americans burdened by federal student loan debt, the debate over how lawmakers should address this issue is deeply polarized along party lines. While the Biden-Harris administration has made student loan forgiveness a policy priority, speculation grows about the future of student loans under a potential second Trump presidency.

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