WEEK IN REVIEW: Reporters’ notebook

For a Valentine’s Day story, a reporter asked Penn Jillette and his wife, Emily, what they love most about each other.

New Smith Center packs plenty of ‘wow factor’

This joint — if you can call a place that cost half a billion bucks a “joint” — is impressive. Taken in from the outside, the Smith Center for the Performing Arts is a statement of opulence. Defined by its art deco/Hoover Dam-inspired exterior and its major accent note of Symphony Park, it visually lifts downtown Las Vegas onto its shoulders and carries it forward.

Father wrote of Iwo Jima’s horrors in letters to family

Pam Brown doesn’t remember much about her dad. A sailor in the South Pacific during World War II, he missed her birthdays and Christmas. And she missed him.

Elizabeth Smart marries at Mormon temple in Hawaii

Elizabeth Smart married her fiance Saturday at a Mormon temple in Hawaii. A family spokesman said the Utah woman who was kidnapped at knifepoint at age 14 and held captive for nine months married Matthew Gilmour on Oahu’s North Shore.

Celebs, friends honor Muhammad Ali

Car strikes two pedestrians in west valley, man dies

One man was killed and a woman was injured Saturday after they were struck by a car in the west valley. Las Vegas police said the accident happened about 7 p.m. near Sahara Avenue and Decatur Boulevard.

Woman dies in southwest valley crash

A woman was killed Saturday night after a two-vehicle crash in the southwest valley. Las Vegas police said the crash happened about 7 p.m. near Torrey Pines Drive and Robindale Road.

Two teens, elderly man die in fatal crash in Henderson

Two teenagers and an elderly man were killed Saturday after a crash in Henderson. Henderson police said the accident happened about 3 p.m. at Windmill Parkway and Thayer Avenue, near Green Valley Parkway.

Luminaries galore honor ‘The Greatest’

Celebrities, entertainers and athletes from all walks of life converged upon the MGM Grand Garden on Saturday to pay tribute to “The Greatest.” Muhammad Ali is one of the only people who can draw such a diverse crowd.

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