May 12, 2024

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49-year-old mom overcomes ‘chemo brain’ to find academic success

49-year-old mom overcomes ‘chemo brain’ to find academic success

Posted 2:00 a.m.

Rebecca Taylor was 40 years old when she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer in 2015. Almost a decade later, the 49-year-old will graduate from ...

Jesica Spellacy holds her three-month-old daughter Johanna Spellacy during a press conference at the UMC Trauma Center Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Johanna’s life was saved on Feb. 7 when Las Vegas Fire & Rescue paramedics relieved constriction to her umbilical cord when she wasn’t getting enough oxygen during a breech birth.

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Jesica Spellacy holds her three-month-old daughter Johanna Spellacy during a press conference at the UMC Trauma Center Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Johanna’s life was saved on Feb. 7 when Las Vegas Fire & Rescue paramedics relieved constriction to her umbilical cord when she wasn’t getting ...

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UMC team, paramedics reunite with baby they saved at birth

Posted 2:00 a.m.

By Grace Da Rocha

Within one minute after arriving at UMC, Jessica Spellacy delivered Johanna, but the baby was not breathing. Labor and delivery nurses quickly descended upon the scene to resuscitate Johanna, then admitted her into ...

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Mother’s Day tradition celebrates Las Vegas pioneer

Mother’s Day tradition celebrates Las Vegas pioneer

Posted 2:00 a.m.

Many years ago the Thomas, Mack and Greenspun families joined together for a Mother’s Day celebration. Peggy and Parry Thomas, Joyce and Jerry Mack and Barbara and Hank Greenspun— as was their practice in those earlier days— started it all thinking that one day ...

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Schools turn to artificial intelligence to spot guns as companies press lawmakers for state funds

ZeroEyes analyst Mario Hernandez demonstrates the use of artificial intelligence with surveillance cameras to identify visible guns at the company's operations center, Friday, May 10, 2024, in Conshohocken, Pa.

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ZeroEyes analyst Mario Hernandez demonstrates the use of artificial intelligence with surveillance cameras to identify visible guns at the company's operations center, Friday, May 10, 2024, in Conshohocken, Pa.

Posted 10:33 a.m.

Kansas could soon offer up to $5 million in grants for schools to outfit surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence systems that can spot people carrying guns.

Jerry Rice’s son, Chargers rookie Brenden Rice, feels as if he has plenty to prove

Flash floods and cold lava flow hit Indonesia’s Sumatra island. At least 37 people were killed