“I consider myself lucky because I had a backpack,” he said at a TED Talk in June in Traverse City, Michigan. “And because along the way I found some of the most beautiful, compassionate and courageous people that not only helped me through this time but who have left a lasting impression stamped on my heart.”
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Benjamin Banneker carved and drew. He figured and thought some more, and he dreamed. Could a man make a working clock from scraps and scratch?
Grandma is the best cook ever! She’s second only to Mom, who makes your favorite foods every day.
In the new book “I Am Jazz” by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, with pictures by Shelagh McNicholas, you’ll read about a girl who’s just like other girls … only different. That’s because Jazz has “a girl brain but a boy body.”
Your first few days of going to school are gonna be big.
From the first moment you saw him, you knew he was The One.
Sometimes, you have a good nose for trouble.
Loaded with hundreds of full-color pictures and thousands of cool factlets, “Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Strikingly True” is one of those books you can rest assured kids will love to read because of the subject matter inside it.
What they’ll find in here will satisfy their curiosity and appeal to their sense of odd. Because this book is so browseable, it fits any attention span and several reading levels (although — beware — some of what’s in here might be too scary for smaller kids). And because it’s the same Ripley’s you grew up with, this is one of those books you can get caught reading, too.
When you’re managing a complex build in one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, you don’t have time for subs who miss deadlines or can’t keep up with the pace. That’s where Battle Born Steel comes in—your go-to steel team for keeping projects on track and your stress level low.
Six families were displaced after an apartment fire in East Las Vegas, according to an American Red Cross of Southern Nevada news release.
The Review-Journal teamed up with two local organizations to pass out turkeys to community members in need at the Review-Journal in Las Vegas.
The new memorial, meant to bring awareness to cycling safety, was hand-signed by dozens of Wesley Sterner’s family members, friends and cyclists who knew him.
A carjacking suspect who was shot by a Las Vegas police officer was holding a vape pen in his hand that officers initially believed was a knife, according to police.
