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The Huntridge Neighborhood Association has organized dozens of events, from screening movies in Circle Park on Maryland Parkway to throwing a Big Lebowski-themed party .
First Friday is scheduled from 5 to 10 p.m. Friday in downtown Las Vegas. Admission is free. Free parking with shuttle service is available at the Clark County Government Center, 500 S. Grand Central Parkway. Live entertainment, food vendors and more are planned. For information on shuttle services, artists, music and more, visit firstfridaylasvegas.com.
Henderson resident Judy Best creates cookbook to accommodate her husband, who had throat cancer.
An art exhibit in Henderson pays tribute to the Chilean miners who were trapped in 2010.
In an unprecedented decision, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has recommended an officer be fired for his actions in a police shooting. Officer Jacquar Roston, 36, is on administrative leave since the November shooting of a man in an east valley park. Roston shot the man in the leg after mistaking the shine from a label on the man’s hat for a gun.
The economic downturn has been devastating for many in the construction industry, but 20-year Las Vegas resident Jeffrey Cruden, who has worked in commercial construction since 1989, was determined to make something good come out of it. He took advantage of the downtime to complete his lifelong ambition to author a novel. The result was the murder mystery “The Perfume Alibi.”
Truthfully, the bad news came as no surprise. Your Mom hadn’t been feeling well lately and for weeks, you’d heard your parents whispering.
Two weeks ahead of a critical shareholders meeting, Affinity Gaming’s largest shareholder narrowed its legal attack on the company.
— Johnny Rivers plans to perform at 8 p.m. Friday at the Chrome Showroom inside Santa Fe Station, 4949 N. Rancho Drive. Tickets start at $40.50. Call 800-745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.
Dr. Yevgeniy Khavkin used to perform brain and spinal surgeries with a road map provided by pre- and post-operative CT scans. Today, his scalpel is guided by imaging technology that’s a lot closer to a GPS.
Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Ross’ cell phone number is available to anyone who wants to find it. It’s on his business card, his website and his campaign mailers. The Ward 6 councilman suspects that level of accessibility is a big part of the reason he keeps getting re-elected.
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Who said the city doesn’t respond to a wake-up call? It may take a while to figure out how to shut off the alarm clock, but eventually it all comes together, in this case thanks to the traffic engineers in the city of Las Vegas’ Public Works Department.
CARSON CITY — Erin Bilbray-Kohn is asking the Federal Election Commission whether she can keep her job as a consultant to a political group she founded and still run for Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District seat.
After a yearlong search, the Las Vegas Urban League has appointed Kevin E. Hooks as its new CEO.
Dennis Hope, 65, has gained a ton of notoriety for his idea (scheme? business?) to sell bits of the moon for 20 bucks a pop to anyone who finds his Nevada company on the Internet.
A woman who was beaten and stabbed to death early Sunday has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
NEW YORK — The NBA says its relocation committee has voted unanimously to recommend that owners deny the application for the Sacramento Kings to relocate to Seattle.
CARSON CITY — A Republican lawmaker said Monday that his bill to consider fundamental changes to the state public pension plan for new hires will not get a hearing after all.
Passenger traffic at McCarran International Airport grew slightly in March, airport officials reported Monday.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. parted ways with the company’s longtime outside auditing firm but analysts said Monday that investors shouldn’t speculate beyond the announcement.
Tebow Time is over in New York — before it ever got started. Tim Tebow was waived by the Jets on Monday, the end of an unsuccessful one-season experiment in New York. Coach Rex Ryan said in a statement by the team in announcing the move that had been expected for months: “Unfortunately, things did not work out the way we all had hoped.”
NEW YORK — NBA veteran Jason Collins became the first active male player in the four major American professional sports to come out as gay.