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Check out this week’s Book Briefs for information about Readings in the Pumpkin Patch, a children’s book event tied to the Vegas Valley Book Festival, and signings for Imani True’s “Strawberries, Stilettos and Steam” and Deborah Wall’s “Base Camp Las Vegas: Hiking the Western States.”
LES KINCAID PLANS BEVERAGE, PASTA CLASSES THIS MONTH
Clark High School ninth-grader Sara Dula hadn’t seen a dentist in years. Her family couldn’t afford it. Her lack of regular check-ups would have continued had the dentist not come to her. Future Smiles, a nonprofit group that provides oral health care to at-risk students, opened a clinic last month in a modular building at Clark, 4291 W. Pennwood Ave.
POLICE RECORDS BUREAU TO REOPEN SATURDAY AFTER ONE-WEEK CLOSURE
The Metropolitan Police Department’s records bureau is set to reopen at 7 a.m. Saturday at the department’s new headquarters in Building C at 400 S. Martin Luther King Blvd.
Preservation architect Robert Chattel is supervising finishing touches to a restoration project he says is “the ultimate artifact” for the $42 million Mob Museum that uses the old courthouse as a setting for the story of organized crime in America.
Ahmmad Khan, a wiry 56-year-old, possesses something most people his age in Afghanistan don’t have: an education.
A family of three is uninjured but displaced after its Henderson home caught fire this morning.
The 72-year-old California man who was reported missing Friday has been found alive in the Lake Mead National Reservation Area.
Imagine hardcore hikers marching from Red Rock Canyon to Lake Mead and back again without having to retrace a single step. Such is the vision of the Outside Las Vegas Foundation.
Authorities called off the hunt for an Arizona fugitive after an unsuccessful four-hour search Friday in the Las Vegas Bay area on the western edge of Lake Mead National Recreation Area near Henderson.
