This law student was shot twice in the neck and torso after repeatedly banging on the wrong door.

From injectable HIV meds via CytoDyn's PRO 140 to HIV prevention via PrEP, from subdermal implants and cellular scissors to x-ray crystallography, this has been an amazing year for medical breakthroughs in HIV. Here's a roundup of some of the hottest new advances and studies in the field.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Springs Preserve are heading a program that'll accept trees through Jan. 15 at more than 30 drop-off locations in and around Las Vegas.

“Apex” is defined as a high point or summit. Thanks to the recent special session of the Legislature, North Las Vegas and Southern Nevada have reached a high point few could have imagined only months ago with the state’s decision to develop needed infrastructure at the sprawling but mostly barren Apex Industrial Park, as well as to provide enticements so Faraday Future can build an electric car manufacturing plant there.

The City of Henderson encourages residents to give their holiday trees a new lease on life through recycling. From December 26, 2015, through January 14, 2016, residents can drop off their live holiday trees during regular park hours at eight Henderson locations.

The Las Vegas Strip, flanked by towering casinos-hotels, is a 4-mile stretch of near-constant movement, jammed with cars, buses, taxis and mobile billboards rolling alongside scores of pedestrians.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's proposal to spent $2 billion a year to battle Alzheimer's disease was welcomed Tuesday by Las Vegas researchers who say effective treatments are desperately needed given the growing number of elderly affected by the disease.

Listener Hutch Humphreys of San Diego sent Marketplace this question: “I was wondering what research has gone into the various algorithms airlines use for boarding passengers, and why most of those algorithms do not seem to work very well.”

NORTH LAS VEGAS - A futuristic car company could break ground by the end of December at the Apex site in North Las Vegas.