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Leading up to this holiday season, Goodwill of Southern Nevada asked shoppers to add a dollar to their purchases. The money will go toward a dozen computers for its long-standing mission: seeing that people get jobs. Goodwill has three Career Connections Training Centers: 1280 W. Cheyenne Ave. in North Las Vegas, 3345 E. Tropicana Ave. and the newly opened store at 741 S. Rainbow Blvd.
Faith Lutheran Middle School and High School broke ground Dec. 5 on its Crusader Competition Center athletic complex, the first phase of an expansion project that eventually will include a stand-alone middle school, a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) building, a science lab, an administration complex, tennis courts, an aquatic center and additional parking.
You might ask what kind of a misfit would deliberately destroy a tiny forest of pine trees on a golf course, so they might have a better view of the Strip, or a better view of somebody hitting a golf ball, or maybe just to satisfy some kind of dysfunctional jollies? Well, that’s what happened to approximately 13 stately pines at Highland Falls Golf Course in Sun City Summerlin.
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Inside the new Golden Corral at 1455 S. Lamb Blvd., the buffet chain’s famous dessert fountain was flowing in all its glory Wednesday. The state’s only Golden Corral opens to the public at 10:30 a.m. today.
A Nevada man has been charged with providing material support to terrorism groups in India and Pakistan in order to intimidate the Indian government and to harm those not supporting their Sikh separatist cause, federal officials said Wednesday.
Clark County prosecutors said they will seek the death penalty for the 42-year-old man charged with fatally shooting one man and injuring two security guards at Drai’s After Hours nightclub inside Bally’s on the Strip.
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve has sent its strongest signal of confidence in the U.S. economy since the Great Recession struck six years ago: It’s decided the economy is finally strong enough to withstand a slight pullback in the Fed’s stimulus.
A tourist in Australia had to be rescued by police after plunging off a pier while browsing Facebook on her phone.
A Las Vegas physician charged in an undercover painkiller sting at a hospital parking lot pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday.
There’s been a sweet building boom across the valley lately — in the form of gingerbread, and icing and candy and all of the stuff that makes a gingerbread house the personification of a child’s dreams.
An agreement has been reached to pay $5.8 million to the families of eight people killed and 12 injured in a California desert off-road race crash in 2010, a lawyer said Wednesday.
A local home-building institution will soon have a new owner. Tri Pointe Homes of Irvine, Calif., is buying Pardee Homes as part of a multibillion-dollar builder buying binge set to close in the first half of 2014.
Carly Kerby, a mom of four girls, doesn’t have the greatest track record as the Tooth Fairy, but it was another family tradition that nearly did her in: The Elf on the Shelf.
Two lucky winning tickets were sold in Tuesday’s near-record $636 million Mega Millions drawing: one at a tiny newsstand in Atlanta, and the other more than 2,000 miles away in California.
The guide dog that leaped onto subway tracks after his blind owner lost consciousness and fell off a station platform is assured a loving home after his retirement.
A Florida Wal-Mart employee faces charges after officials say he shot a co-worker’s car window because she won an employee-of-the-month award.
A cat accurately named Waffles the Terrible fails miserably attempting to jump from one snowy surface to another.
With backing from the White House, lawmakers are setting the stage for Congress in January to consider restoring payments to Americans whose unemployment checks are being cut off this month.
The man authorities say shot his daughter multiple times before taking his own life Tuesday night has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
An anonymous donor is making the holidays merrier for shoppers with Christmas gifts on layaway at an Ohio store.
Officials in southeastern Brazil say doctors performed a cesarean section on a 37-year-old woman only to discover that she wasn’t pregnant.
Steven Matthew Fernandes, a 19-year-old man who pleaded guilty to unlawfully possessing and making explosives at his Las Vegas home, was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in federal prison.
There are cities with greater literary traditions than Las Vegas, but you’ll have to look far to find one with more colorful characters. Three books published this year illustrate that truth.
A man was killed early Wednesday morning after being struck by a train in a rural area northeast of Las Vegas, between the city and Moapa.
Gone, or at least diminished, are the days of needing to know someone at a nightclub to get a deal.
As we predicted in an earlier blog, President Barack Obama will continue to sink in the eyes of the public — his unpopularity driven by what the media is finally now calling “The Lie Of The Year.”
In Chris Wood’s dreams, he’s in a one-on-one matchup with Kevin Durant and matching the three-time NBA scoring champion shot for shot.