Las Vegas has won a legal challenge to an ordinance passed in September that lets the Fremont Street Experience LLC control the placement of outdoor bars that have sprouted on the tourist attraction, but the Experience could face more fights down the road.
Summerlin Hospital Medical Center didn’t take basic precautions this past summer when a woman with tuberculosis visited one of her twins in intensive care, potentially infecting others, according to a state report released Friday.
A proposed Las Vegas charter school where students would learn Latin, read original Constitution documents and be required to acquire more credits to graduate than other schools won unanimous approval Friday by the state Public Charter School Authority.
A teenager on her way home from a Halloween party with her son and grandparents died Thursday night in a North Las Vegas car accident.
Tank, a large 6-year-old brown brindle bullmastiff who weighs about 120 pounds, and Tiny, a large 4-year-old black and white pitbull who weighs about 50 pounds, escaped from their home across from Desert Pines High School on Oct. 23 and bit two young children severely enough to require hospitalization, according an animal control report.
The longtime Henderson resident and educator Harriet Treem was known for her dedication to students, a reputation that also led to her becoming the namesake of a Henderson elementary school.
By the early 1950s, when the Bonanza Village neighborhood was being built, Las Vegas was coming into its own as a resort community, but it still traded on its image as a Western frontier town.
Las Vegas writer Clyde B. Northrup studied 19th- and 20th-century British literature, the history of the novel and the works of J.R.R. Tolkien while working on his Ph.D. at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He taps that background in his own fantasy series “The Redemption.” Northrup’s books in the series include “Chosen of the One,” “Staff of Shagmar” and “The Morgle Unmasked.” Three more books are planned. “Chosen of the One” can be downloaded free at smashwords.com. Northrup’s talents also include poetry, which can be found in his collections “Exhalations from the Grave,” “Stones in the Stream” and his autobiographical poetry collections “Ode to a Stump Farm” and “The Broiler Pit: Memories of a Misbegotten Childhood.” For more information, visit clydebnorthrup.webs.com.
Terri Schlichenmeyer reviews “The Ghost Prison,” a young adult book by Joseph Delaney.
This week’s literary events include a lecture by University of Nevada, Las Vegas, professor Timothy Erwin and a Sun City MacDonald Ranch Literary Guild event featuring “On Two Fronts” authors Lance Taubold and Sgt. Adam Fenner.
