The death of poet, songwriter and singer Rod McKuen at 81 on Jan. 29 was worldwide news, but because he lived in so many places, his Nevada days didn’t get prominent mention in his obituaries.
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Blanca Gamez of Las Vegas did a double-take entering the Oval Office on Wednesday. It was President Barack Obama himself who opened the door and ushered her in along with five others to talk about immigration.
Southwest Gas will meet with customers affected by an outage at 9 p.m., and Henderson is offering free showers.
Glenn Murphy doesn’t just teach in “Evolution: The Whole Life-on-Earth Story,” “Bodies: The Whole Blood-Pumping Story” and “Disgusting Science” — he entertains, too, with a back-and-forth format that seems like a conversation between author and reader.
”In Lieu of Therapy” is a collection of journal entries, religious reflections, short stories and poetry written over a lifetime by Las Vegas writer Rena C. Winters. Winters is also the author of “Smurfs: The Inside Story of the Little Blue Characters.”
Literary happenings coming up include poetry performances at First Friday, Painted Stories at the Bootlegger and a free creative writing series.
The Clark County School District saw more than 18,000 students apply for magnet school programs next fall, nearly 2,000 more than applied last year, officials said. The application deadline, which ended Tuesday, had been pushed to February as district officials worked out an evolving transportation plan for those students accepted to magnet programs.
A man is suspected of killing an elderly couple, whose mummified bodies were found in a trash bin in a Las Vegas Valley storage unit, and stealing retirement checks from them for more than a decade.
Metro released more information Wednesday on a drug house officers uncovered during an in-progress burglary the day before.
A two-vehicle crash that closed a North Las Vegas intersection Tuesday night left damage that will take days to repair, according to the city officials.