Las Vegas breaking news from Nevada's most reliable source. Read about the latest updates happening in Las Vegas at reviewjournal.com.
It may be packed with more than 200 pages of photos of Las Vegas from the Strip to the surrounding desert, but Linda Chase’s “Picturing Las Vegas” is more than just a picture book. Chase, an author who grew up in Las Vegas, fills her pages with history, stories and trivia spanning from the city’s early history to today.
Pizza is taken seriously here as fresh dough is made daily with the finest flour and olive oil, while the homemade sauce has a tasty blend of Italian herbs and spices.
NOVE ITALIANO TO PRESENT MOTHER’S DAY COOKING CLASS
Question: We want to plant a pecan tree. Would you please recommend one for Las Vegas? If we plant one, can we cut it way back and keep it small like we did our other fruit trees?
Running for a cure is the idea behind participants for Team Challenge, a program under the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation designed to encourage fitness and awareness for the disease.
Visitors to Jean-Marie Auboine’s business are greeted by the overpowering fragrance of chocolate and perfectly preserved chocolate statues. A dragon, eagle, monkey and goblin occupy a desk that would usually belong to a receptionist.
For Centennial Hills resident Sue Gaines, it was the hospital social worker she met after her daughter’s suicide attempt who changed her family’s life. She gave Gaines the phone number for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Survivors of domestic violence, including a woman whose hands were severed in a machete attack, make a united stand Monday against the culture of silence and shame that can prevent victims from seeking life-saving help. The third annual Walk Against Domestic Violence Homicide, sponsored by Safe Faith United, drew about 50 people. It began at the Doolittle Community Center on J Street and ended on Stella Street, near Lake Mead and Martin Luther King boulevards.
The owners of The City Stop convenience store chain sold the businesses to a Colorado-based company but retained the Nevada Gaming Partners slot machine route operation that services the games inside the 11 stores.
