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About 25 graduate students in the public history program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, spent much of the past semester at the Walking Box Ranch in Searchlight, cataloguing and cleaning thousands of artifacts that once belonged to former Nevada Lt. Gov. and actor Rex Bell and his wife, actress Clara Bow.
Students from The Meadows School hosted their fourth annual holiday event for another school Dec. 16, this year bringing presents for students at West Preparatory Academy in downtown Las Vegas.
Karen Rowe, a resident of The Trails in Summerlin, was beginning to walk her 13-year-old dog, Al, at 6:30 a.m. Dec. 5 when the garage door of a house two doors down rolled up and two large dogs, which Rowe said were some sort of shepherd breed, tore away from their owner and began attacking her terrier mix.
Many homeless and low-income people enjoyed a Christmas Day dinner on Sunday at Catholic Charities in Las Vegas. More than 150 volunteers served the meals.
There’s no chance of a white Christmas in the valley this year, although that’s to be expected for Las Vegas, a city that’s had snow fall on Dec. 25 only three times in the last seven decades.
There is exactly one “good news” story on the Review-Journal’s list of the Top 10 news stories of 2011. And it’s about shoes. Can we all sigh together now? Sigh.
Santa should have no problem delivering presents to Las Vegans on his “nice” list tonight, as it’s perfect flying weather with all clear skies in the forecast.
A woman died early Saturday morning in a fire at her Henderson apartment. The Henderson Fire Department responded to the blaze at Galleria Palms Apartments near Stephanie Street and Sunset Road about 1:45 a.m. Saturday to find a couch on fire and the woman unconscious, a department statement said.
United Way of Southern Nevada brightened the holidays of more than 2,000 needy families this week with the help of a generous Secret Santa who donated $1 million to the charity.
Family and friends remembered Stanley LaVon Gibson on Friday as a patriotic Gulf War veteran, a loving but troubled husband, brother, son and uncle, and a Las Vegas black man whose death at the hands of police they hope will spur reforms involving the use of deadly force.
Cool and calm, Southern Highlands resident Shelly Wakefield breezed through the Galleria at Sunset.