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A wide swath of Nevada will enjoy a rare front row seat on Sunday as the moon passes in front of the sun. The eclipse will be visible, though dangerous to look at with the naked eye, in the Las Vegas Valley starting at just after 5:21 p.m. The event will peak at about 6:35 p.m. and end about an hour later, just before sundown.
An air quality advisory has been issued for dust Thursday afternoon and evening.
U.S. Highway 95 was shut down for several hours after a wrong-way driver sparked a fiery head-on crash that killed two people on Thursday morning.
The names of two Las Vegas parks just got a little longer: Freedom Park now will be known as Gary Reese Freedom Park, Doolittle Park now will be known as the Kianga Isoke Palacio Park at Doolittle Complex.
A 3-year-old girl who died after falling into the Virgin River on Tuesday was identified Wednesday as Sherlyn Martinez-Alvarez, of Mesquite.
