Denise Tatum once spent nine weeks at Vermont’s Middlebury College speaking only in Mandarin Chinese. After spending four summers in China and earning a bachelor’s degree in Asian studies from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, she now teaches Chinese and English at Liberty High School.
Clark County School District programs such as Reading Through the Holidays, along with the All People Promoting Literacy Efforts program in the Henderson area, are some of the ways area students are being exposed to reading outside of the classroom.
The Ray of Hope Foundation, a nonprofit group providing support to Manch, Parson, Lowman, Bunker and Clyde C. Cox elementary schools, is accepting holiday donations through Dec. 12.
A 12-year-old girl died after being struck by a car near Sahara Avenue and Town Center Drive on Monday night, Las Vegas police said.
The rich fossil beds of Tule Springs at the northern edge of the valley will get the full rock-star treatment this week , as paleontologists from around the world gather in Las Vegas.
Sports teams with a winning tradition do well in large part because they are able to change game plans when something isn’t working. For Chris Milam, the developer of the proposed Las Vegas National Sports Center in Henderson, three failed attempts to build a similar project in Las Vegas clearly illustrated something was not working.
