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Savannah Prenger and Ellie Forche, 17-year-old juniors at Bishop Gorman High School, held a drive at their school to collect sunscreen, refillable water bottles and flip-flops to benefit the organization Teens Helping Teens, which was founded in 2012 by Prenger and her sister, Siena Prenger, 13.
Late last month, more than two dozen people armed with hammers and buckets of paint descended on Roosevelt Fields’ longtime home.
With proposed general fund spending at $482 million and revenue at $472 million, the city will dip into reserves to balance the budget.
Las Vegas police were investigating a woman’s death Tuesday morning. Her body was found about 11 a.m. on the 8000 block of Green Pasture Avenue, near Lone Mountain and Cimarron roads in the northwest valley.
A viewing has been set for Thursday afternoon for Marcos Vicente Arenas, the 15-year-old killed while hanging onto his iPad during an attempted robbery last week. On the same day, the two men charged in his death will appear in Las Vegas Justice Court to argue their bail and set a preliminary hearing on murder charges.
In the days after a teenage boy was run over during an attempted iPad robbery, one of the suspects spent his time covering up the evidence. Jacob Dismont, 18, changed tires, added fake license plates and covered the Ford Explorer with stickers in an effort to conceal the car used in the death of 15-year-old Marcos Arenas, according to a Las Vegas police report.
Over 2,000 uninsured patients receive free medical care at the Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada’s clinic at Paradise Park, inside the old recreation center. The nonprofit is now getting ready to establish a second free clinic for those who don’t have access to health care services.
The extinct horse, known as Equus scotti, has been definitively identified from bones recovered from a northwest Las Vegas hillside
Students from the Clark County School District’s mariachi and ballet folklorico programs are slated to participate in the 2012 Latin Chamber of Commerce Mariachi Festival starting May 22.
Cornerstone Park hasn’t officially opened yet, but that hasn’t stopped Henderson resident Terrell Chandler and others from using it.
It starts with the rhythm. Fingers tap on a tightly stretched drum skin. Heads sway in a larger pattern. The dancers don’t come out on stage so much as they sashay gently out of the wings dressed mostly in white, festooned with beads and jiggling jewelry. The outfits seem calculated to enhance the notion of motion, to amplify each sway of their bodies.
Though the valley’s newest water parks’ openings may be slightly delayed, the county and city pools are set to go for the season.
Among messages from “Being Oscar: From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Las Vegas — Only In America,” written by former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman with George Anastasia, are: Everyone has the right to the protections of the Constitution; and the courts, the FBI and the police were not opposed to “allowing abuses to take place in the ‘interest of justice.’ “
This week’s literary events include a signing by former Gov. Bob Miller and an appearance by author/tattoo artist Kat Von D.
The signs at Terrible’s Hotel & Casino are changing as the property shifts directions to go with a new identity.
