A lawsuit was filed against UNLV Thursday, urging the school’s University of Medicine to re-open the Nevada Care Program.

UNLV President Len Jessup told a legislative committee today there are three to four potential prospects to donate $25 million or more to help finance construction of a medical school building.

In the days after the shootings at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas, many stories emerged of bystander courage. Volunteers combed the grounds for survivors and carried out the injured. Strangers used belts as makeshift tourniquets to stanch bleeding, and then others sped the wounded to hospitals in the back seats of cars and the beds of pickup trucks.

Two medical residents at Las Vegas-based University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Medicine's primary teaching hospital, were called in to treat patients injured during the Oct. 1 shooting that killed 50-plus people and injured hundreds more — three days after they became certified physicians.

The state Board of Examiners today approved a $14.4 million contract for design and construction administration for the UNLV medical school. The school’s eventual cost will be $236 million.

Barrett-Jackson, in conjunction with The NASCAR Foundation, today announced the charity sale of a 2016 Jeep Wrangler Red Rock Edition at Barrett-Jackson’s 10th Annual Las Vegas Auction.

The state Board of Examiners today approved a $14.4 million contract for design and construction administration for the UNLV medical school. The school’s eventual cost will be $236 million.

A state panel approved a contract Tuesday for an architectural firm to design and provide construction administration services for a medical education building at UNLV.

Hospital staffers routinely deal with people with traumatic injuries, but when they arrived in large numbers after Sunday’s mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, even the most seasoned professionals could not be prepared for what they saw.

For the first time since a gunman open fire on Las Vegas concert goers, many of the surgeons who rushed in to treat victims gathered for a meeting of the Nevada Chapter of The American College of Surgeons.

Jill Roberts heard the screaming and crying in the Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center emergency room Sunday night as the families and friends of those killed in the Route 91 Harvest music festival shooting found out their loved ones didn’t survive the attack.

You’re by now familiar with the horrific, acute trauma of Sunday night in Las Vegas: 59 dead and over 500 wounded. When the bullets began crossing Las Vegas Boulevard, roughly 22,000 attendees ran for their lives. These masses were left physically unscathed, but with possible mental wounds, and they fled the neon of the Strip into what is essentially a mental health-care desert.