Literary events this week include “Creativity & Madness: Channeling the Muse,” a poetry and music performance featuring Lee Mallory and Nate Segundo.
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Malik didn’t do it. Janae knew that her son was innocent. He was just 15 years old, a good-enough student, her baby. She’d raised him right and Malik wasn’t capable of killing.
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About 5,058 houses in the northwest valley were without power Thursday night, NV Energy reported.
Cash-strapped North Las Vegas is trying to avoid excluding lower-income youth from its new skate park as it seeks a way to foot the project bill. Charging a fee for Craig Ranch’s 65,000-square-foot skate park was a nonstarter for most council members at Wednesday’s meeting.
A man is dead and a woman is in custody after an early Wednesday night shooting near Maryland Parkway and Charleston Boulevard, Las Vegas police said.
Several streets in downtown Las Vegas will be closed Friday afternoon and evening for the annual Las Vegas Pride Parade.
Some unusual – if not eyebrow-raising – solutions for elementary school crowding were suggested Thursday to the Clark County School Board, which will now consider which to pursue.
The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday approved a new dual-response ambulance system that will give emergency calls to the city Fire Department and other calls to one or more private ambulance companies.
Las Vegas police were investigating a shooting a few blocks from UNLV Wednesday morning. A woman was shot about 11 a.m. on the 1000 block of Sierra Vista Drive, near Maryland Parkway and Desert Inn Road, Las Vegas police said.
The man who was found dead on Tuesday after a single-car crash on Interstate 15 was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office on Wednesday. Nevada Highway Patrol responded to northbound I-15, near Tropicana Avenue, at about 3:40 p.m. There, they found David Makkonen, 44, from North Las Vegas. The white Toyota Corolla he was driving had hit a wall, NHP said.
With the opening of school and the approach of holidays, most of us become too busy to escape for long from our city lives. That makes the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge a good choice for a September escape. Lying in Nevada near the California state line, it’s close enough to enjoy thoroughly in a single day, yet it’s a little farther north, a little higher, and therefore a little cooler, than our own valley. Now is an especially good time to go if you enjoy birdwatching or counting how many different kinds you can see, for the fall migratory season is upon us, and more than 275 species have been recorded there.
A Las Vegas woman who was behind the wheel in a crash that killed her 9-year-old niece was ordered released from jail Tuesday.
Prosecutors filed an amended complaint Wednesday against mixed martial artist War Machine, including charges of attempted murder.
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Colin Czech is accused of killing a man outside a downtown convenience store and eating parts of the victim’s face, police said.
The Las Vegas Strip casino introduced a new tier in its loyalty program, and visitors will need to reach at least that tier to receive unlimited free parking.
Harry Reid International Airport said its parking was in “high demand” this weekend, and expected Terminal 1 long term and economy parking to be at capacity.
Shiva Gummi was arrested in April 2023 after he told a 911 dispatcher he had killed his wife, who was a new doctor at University Medical Center.
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