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Soroptimist International of Greater Las Vegas has installed its 2013-14 board of directors.

Of more than 700 new teachers in Clark County School District who began during the 2012-13 school year, six rookies performed like seasoned pros.

Volunteers gathered before 5 a.m. June 13 at Red Rock Canyon to help measure and band hummingbirds as part of the Hummingbird Monitoring Network’s seasonal coordinated monitoring program. Birds were weighed, measured and tagged to help further knowledge about the tiny creatures, including their life expectancy.

There will come a time in the future when mankind will have destroyed the earth through pollution and misuse of resources and escaped to the stars on a great fleet of starships. Those ships will be highly regulated, bastions of cleanliness and organization. They will also be a place focused around one of future society’s greatest resources: cats.

As the polls in Iran’s recent election opened, Moniru Ravanipur watched from her computer at her Henderson home recalling life as a writer in that country.

While many people are aware of grand juries and the indictments they present, few know how they are formed, the kinds of cases they hear or the details of deliberations.

Southern Nevadans are snapping up guns at a near-record pace. That means more firearms classes are cropping up at armories, gun stores and weapons ranges across the valley.

Over the course of a few years, sisters Christina and Pamela Dylag’s longtime dream of opening a bar became a reality.