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An excessive heat watch in Las Vegas is expected to peak over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
Temperatures in the valley and at Lake Mead are expected to reach between 108 and 110 degrees during the weekend before lowering to 100 degrees Monday.
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The American Public Works Association recently named the Mob Museum in Las Vegas as a 2013 Public Works Project of the Year.
While gun owners await Gov. Brian Sandoval’s pledged veto on a bill requiring background checks for private sales like laws in other states, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department statistics show a spike in local firearms registration.
An informational meeting on the new driver authorization cards will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday at the East Las Vegas Community/Senior Center, 250 N. Eastern Ave.
As the National Weather Service issued an excessive heat warning through Sunday for the valley, additional cooling stations opened to the public.
Nicholas Burns was named prom king and honored at a graduation ceremony May 23 while his mom, dad and grandmother cheered and held up signs when his name was called. His mom, Jennifer Burns, removed her glasses and wiped away tears with her free hand. Parents crying at graduation is not unusual, but this ceremony meant more to her than it does to most parents.
Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas will remain accredited after months of being in the national spotlight for allegations of patient dumping.
Nevada Highway Patrol reported an accident Wednesday evening on northbound U.S. Highway 95 near Eastern Avenue.
A rollover accident jammed up traffic Wednesday afternoon near the Spaghetti Bowl, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
Southern Nevada lawmakers who charged Las Vegas was shortchanged this year on federal security funding mounted a push Wednesday in Congress to add grant money to a homeland protection bill.But the proposal was killed 156-268, after House leaders spoke out against it.
Wednesday would have been Brooklynn Mohler’s last day of seventh grade, and her friends and classmates gathered outside of Schofield Middle School at dismissal to reminisce about the girl who was always smiling.
The Las Vegas City Council decided Wednesday to donate $200,000 to help fund a nonprofit organization’s literacy program at two inner-city schools.
Vice President Joe Biden is headed to Las Vegas later this month to speak at conferences for the nation’s mayors and a Latino advocacy group.
