A professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas is researching the psychological impact of the 1 October Attack.

Twenty years ago, Valerie Murzl became Station Casinos’ first female executive to work in corporate offices.

The best fiction writers build worlds. This is why story collections are so challenging: With novels, writers inhabit and animate a single world — no small accomplishment, to be sure — but with short stories the writer strives for the same emotional and intellectual impact in a fraction of the word count. A collection must work this magic in rapid succession, offering up numerous worlds each with its own population, settings, mood and meaning.

A few dozen undocumented immigrants who were at the Route 91 Harvest festival when a gunman opened fire on the crowd are attempting to turn tragedy into an opportunity.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been escalating his rhetoric against immigrants, this time targeting asylum seekers and the lawyers and adjudicators who handle their cases. He’s been particularly upset about a surge in asylum claims by Central Americans fleeing gang violence, which he thinks is a sign of “rampant abuse and fraud.” Last month, he called unaccompanied children who flee from MS-13 and other gangs “wolves in sheep’s clothing.”

The deadline for Las Vegas to submitted its bid to become the next city where Amazon builds its second massive H2Q headquarters arrived Friday. If Las Vegas is selected, the project will bring an estimated 50,000 jobs to the valley area.

The crosses and the candles and the flowers, the rosaries and the holy cards and the T-shirts and all of the other items left along Las Vegas Boulevard after the Oct. 1 shooting are personal, solitary expressions of sadness, grief and loss for those who lost their lives or were injured.

Biologist Allen Gibbs calls them his “all-American flies.”

The dean of UNLV’s Lee Business School is hoping a $4 million pledge will make the school’s Center for Entrepreneurship competitive regionally and nationally.