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How is home-schooling working for children in the Las Vegas area? The Review-Journal interviewed a family with nine children (all home-schooled) and the woman behind RISE, a resource center for parents that want options outside of the private and public school systems.

A teacher at Northwest Career and Technical Academy won’t get his job back after being fired for watching porn, officials say.

The incident happened on a school computer while students were present, Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky said.

The teacher was removed from the classroom in September and was sent a termination letter on Dec. 12.

The teacher fought that decision, filing a grievance that went to arbitration.

An arbitrator last week upheld the teacher’s termination, the district confirmed.

An attorney for the teachers union identified the instructor as Daryl Slade.

Slade said he intends to fight the arbitrator’s decision.

An 18-year-old man arrested in connection with the deadly stabbing of a woman inside a northwest valley home in early July told Las Vegas police he planned the attack, arrest documents show.
Steven Olsen told police he met 45-year-old Lizzette Schley online, and they hung out together on several occasions, the Metropolitan Police Department report said. After a few months, Olsen decided that he did not want to date Schley anymore because of their age gap.
Olsen said Schley reached out to him to meet up on the morning of July 9 at her house in the 1700 block of Rockcrest Drive for breakfast and to reconnect, the report said.
Instead, he planned to rob and kill Schley, Olsen told police in the report.

Clark County issued a stern message to Southern Nevada marijuana businesses: Stop advertising stoned yoga, or we’ll yank your license to sell weed.
In a letter sent Monday, Clark County Business Licensing Director Jacqueline Holloway told cannabis companies to stop advertising events that promote public marijuana consumption — including events held at a person’s home.
“We write to remind you that public consumption of marijuana is unlawful,” the letter reads.
“It is unlawful to advertise and invite the public to consume marijuana at parties, dining events, recreational events such as yoga and swimming, and other types of events, even if events are held in a private residence.”
Holloway also noted that any pot business found to be sponsoring or even affiliated with an event or business promoting public consumption “risks the suspension or revocation of their business license.”
County spokesman Erik Pappa said some of businesses were recently listed as sponsors for events that paired yoga and karate with marijuana consumption.

On the shelf in Adam Rella’s studio is at least ten binders, two inches thick, of plastic coated drawings. Thousands and thousands of drawings.

A D.J., photographer and artist, Rella has spent more than ten years drawing simple, comical faces and characters that he says connect with any age, race, or gender. He works in a variety of mediums, uses bright colors, and sometimes simple phrases to pull the viewer in, like “have it your way,” or “let’s bubble baby.”

He said that growing up he loved cartoons and wacky faces, just “balls of energy” that make you feel good. He’s worked to keep the upbeat vibe in his art.

“(Art) should never give you a negative feeling,” he says.

He plans to create his brand, Pretty Done, into a global empire, placing his work on anything from toys to clothes to furniture.

The Ferguson Motel, of the Downtown Project, commissioned him to paint two murals.

You can see is work at prettydone.com
(Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @rookie__rae

The parent company of Station Casinos has announced plans to add luxury movie theaters and a resort-style pool complex to Palace Station as part of a $191 million investment in two properties.
Company executives said in an earnings call for Red Rock Resorts on Tuesday that $76 million in new improvements at Palace Station also would include a new restaurant, casino bar, race and sports book and a renovated poker room. The new investment is in addition to a completed $115 million renovation and expansion that includes a new low-rise exterior facade, two restaurants, porte-cochere, casino valet, new bingo room and improved parking and access at Palace. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2018.
Station also is putting $146 million into two restaurants, an upgrade to movie theaters, renovated meeting and convention space, a rooftop ultralounge, a new high-limit area, new hotel registration and VIP check-in areas and other projects at its recently acquired Palms property. Those projects are expected to be completed by next year’s second quarter.

A student pulled into his central-valley driveway Wednesday morning and checked his mail. Moments later, he was shot “for no apparent reason,” police said.
The student, a man about 25 years old, got into a confrontation with four young men, Metropolitan Police Department said. He was then shot at least three times in his driveway about 12:10 a.m. on the 5500 block of West Dewey Drive, near Russell and Lindell roads.
He died at a hospital, Metro Lt. David Gordon said.
The door to his car was still open as homicide detectives investigated Wednesday morning.