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California announces 15 winners of $50K vaccine prizes

California Gov. Gavin Newsom played gameshow host Friday in a drawing for 15 winners of $50,000 prizes for getting vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Former Nevada Assembly Speaker arrested on DUI charges

Ex-Nevada Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins, a former Henderson police chief, was arrested on DUI charges in Carson City after the close of the 2021 Legislature.

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Alternative high school to open a 2nd campus

Beacon Academy of Nevada, a tuition-free public charter school, plans to operate this fall on East Sahara Avenue in Las Vegas.

US adds 559K jobs as firms still struggle to fill positions

U.S. employers added a modest 559,000 jobs in May, an improvement from April’s sluggish gain but still evidence that many companies are struggling to find enough workers.

Trump’s hold on GOP fuels fears about democratic process

“It’s impossible to sustain a democracy in a two-party system when one of the parties is not willing to play by the rules of the game,” said Steven Levitsky, co-author of “How Democracies Die.”

Most vaccinated California workers have to keep masks on

Conflicted California workplace regulators approved controversial rules Thursday night that allow workers to go maskless only if every employee in a room is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Celebrity attorney F. Lee Bailey dies at 87

F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in two states, has died, a former colleague said Thursday. He was 87.

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