Top workplaces, midsize: 5. Realty Executives of Nevada

Getting recognized as one of the best places to work in Las Vegas isn’t just about the benefits, says Fafie Moore, the broker/owner of Realty Executives of Nevada. Moore says her company made the list because of its focus on employees.

Top workplaces, small: 1. Hosts Las Vegas

It’s a company that may fly under the radar of residents, but when it comes to its Las Vegas employees, it’s THE place to work. Hosts Las Vegas, which handles corporate meeting event planning, earned the top spot among businesses under 150 employees as the best place to work in the valley.

Police seek robbery suspects

Las Vegas police are looking for information on two suspects who robbed a business near Cheyenne Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard Feb. 1. The two men held an employee at gunpoint about 1 p.m. and demanded money, according to police.

Top workplaces, small: 2. The Container Store

For the second consecutive year, The Container Store, a Dallas-based chain focusing on storage and organization needs that opened May 2012 at Town Square, is ranked No. 2 among small businesses.

Top workplaces, small: 3. National Title Co.

Creating a family atmosphere is key to the success of National Title Co. The escrow and title service company handling residential and commercial real estate transactions placed third among small companies as one of the valley’s top workplaces.

Former patient testifies in assault case against nursing assistant

Jurors heard from the first two witnesses Monday at the sexual assault trial of Steven Farmer, a certified nursing assistant who is accused of victimizing five patients at Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center.

Top workplaces, small: 4. Southern Fidelity Mortgage

A personable work environment in a boutique office setting has landed Southern Fidelity Mortgage within the top workplaces in Las Vegas.

Top workplaces, small: 5. Ameripark

One way a company becomes a top workplace in Las Vegas is by retaining employees instead of losing them to other firms. That’s one of the goals of Georgia-based AmeriPark, which provides valet services at the Forums Shops at Caesars and the Las Vegas Premium Outlets North.

 
Comedy duo tied to ‘Dumb Starbucks’ in Los Angeles

It was a caffeine-charged Hollywood whodunit: Just whose bright idea was the “Dumb Starbucks” coffee shop that popped up and started serving free drinks from the corner of an otherwise uncelebrated strip mall.

Mexican national sentenced to 30 years in border agent’s death

A Mexican national who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the shooting death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in a late-night gunfight near the Arizona border in 2010 was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in federal prison.

ExporTech trains local businesses to export goods

Popcorn Girl, Pipeline Pacific, Innova Technologies and Sable Systems are participating in ExporTech and attending three daylong seminars once a month through April to develop a simple, actionable international growth plan.

Police ask for public’s help in series of groping cases

Las Vegas police asked for the public’s help Monday in finding a man they believe is involved in a series of open and gross lewdness cases in the southeast valley and Henderson throughout January.

Book Briefs for Feb. 11-17, 2014

Literary highlights this week include a Las Vegas Romance Writers Conference and a visit by author Leni Zumas, who is scheduled to speak as part of the Black Mountain Institute’s Emerging Writers Series.

Silver Statesmen to deliver singing valentine telegrams

The Silver Statesmen Barbershop Chorus plan to offer singing valentines Feb. 14-16. Teams of barbershop quartets hope to fan out over the valley and sing to hundreds of sweethearts.

Las Vegas Academy prepares to premiere ‘In the Heights’

“I think the interesting thing about the music for (Into the Heights) is that it’s predominantly rapping and hip-hop, which is very different from the traditional musical theater style,” said theater instructor Megan Ahern, who is directing the show at Las Vegas Academy, a public arts magnet high school. “It’s set in present-day Washington Heights (a neighborhood in New York City). It’s very urban-looking and all the dancing is hip-hop and salsa at its base because it’s a Hispanic community. We think it will be fun for the audience, something they haven’t seen before.”

Henderson/Anthem Neighborhood News for Feb. 11-17, 2014

Henderson/Anthem news highlights this week include Gibson Library’s Take Your Child to the Library Day and Henderson Mayor Andy Hafen’s appointment as vice chair of the National League of Cities’ 2014 Finance, Administration and Intergovernmental Relations Steering Committee.

Two management changes announced for El Tiempo

Two changes in the management of El Tiempo were recently announced by Stephens Media LLC, owner of El Tiempo, the Spanish publication of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

 
Blasts from the past: 5 more upcoming movie remakes

New versions of “RoboCop,” “About Last Night” and “Endless Love” open this week, but those are just the tip of the remake iceberg.

Research bottle found 58 years later, 300 miles from home

Nearly 58 years after glass bottles were released into the Atlantic Ocean, a biologist studying grey seals off Nova Scotia found one of the bottles with a message inside in a pile of debris on a beach.

 
Zoo gets death threats after killing giraffe, feeding it to lions

A Copenhagen Zoo is dealing with intense backlash after it killed a healthy, 2-year-old giraffe and fed its remains to lions on Sunday. The zoo maintains it took appropriate actions to prevent inbreeding.

Las Vegas mother-son wedding dance goes viral

It started off like a traditional mother-son wedding dance, but a Las Vegas mom and her son had something much bigger planned.

 
Shia LaBeouf wears paper bag to red carpet event

Actor Shia LaBeouf hit the Berlin Film Festival in memorable style Sunday, first walking out of a press conference for the film “Nymphomaniac Volume I” and then wearing a paper bag over his head at the red carpet premiere.

Parent of Stratosphere, Arizona Charlie’s expects to trim loss

The company that operates the Stratosphere and the two Arizona Charlie’s casinos said Monday it expects to reduce its fourth-quarter net loss when the company officially reports results.

 
These 5 things actually happened at the Olympics

Much of the talk about Sochi has turned from the crazy problems visitors have experienced to the athletes themselves. That doesn’t mean crazy things aren’t happening in the Olympic venues, though. Here are five weird things to be aware of from over the weekend.

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