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Las Vegas resident Chelsea Ramsey was searching for purpose in her life. She’d tried pursuing education in video game art and design, but it just wasn’t right. Finally, her mother asked her a life-changing question: “If you could choose to do anything, anything at all, what would it be?”
This week’s literary events include a signing by former Gov. Bob Miller and an appearance by model turned roll model Kylie Bisutti.
Inmates in the Metropolitan Police Department’s house arrest program aren’t confined within the walls of the Clark County Detention Center.
The Henderson Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Taras Krysa, will present Charlie Chaplin’s silent film “The Gold Rush” in a digitally restored print Saturday at the Henderson Pavilion, 200 S. Green Valley Parkway.
Some quick thinking, a good response time and a lot of luck kept one boy’s heart beating and inspired a mother to push for change.
A 71-year-old man was killed Monday morning after he crashed a car into a brick wall.
Hikers and cyclists can expect to find the likes of Matt Pearson on Mount Charleston’s trails this summer. He has trekked through the Grand Canyon, scaled Machu Picchu and grew up hiking parts of the Pacific Rim Trail, making him a good fit for Mount Charleston’s trail host program.
Protesters rallied in Nevada as part of a global protest against seed giant Monsanto and the genetically modified food it produces.
Like infinite numbers of women before her, Heather Robbins came to Las Vegas with a bit of luggage and a big dream: to someday become a showgirl; or at the very least, to dance in a strip club and maybe work her way up by catching the attention of somebody influential.
In a series of recent bills and actions, Rep. Dina Titus has launched an attack on problems in the Department of Veterans Affairs so the veterans who served the country will be better served by its government.
Pretty polka-dot bows on top of heads, GPS monitors on the ankles. Teenagers having babies, then leaving them at home with grandma so they can make money on the streets, in motel suites.
Marc Schifalacqua, a Clark County prosecutor, has put plenty of pimps behind bars for pandering girls and women. He’s the first to say that Las Vegas is one big revolving door for pimps who commonly receive light sentences even if they abuse prostitutes or pander minors.
In a world of sex trafficking, where prostitutes are coerced or forced through violence to turn tricks, Christina is an example of a woman trafficking herself.
For decades, Melanie Winckler, 51, was a prostitute who worked for just one man, her pimp — a man whose name she doesn’t dare mention out of fear of retaliation or just bad karma.
