Gregory Awa-Moppert, 17, of North Las Vegas didn’t pick up a lacrosse stick until January. After just four months, the Canyon Springs High School student was given a full-ride scholarship — a mix of a sports scholarship and federal student aid — to play the sport at Central Christian College of Kansas in McPherson, nearly 2,000 miles southwest of Kansas City. He plays midfielder, but will play attacker in college.
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Myles Ong says he tried several times to get out of the restaurant industry, which he has been working in since he was 9, and each time he has found his way back.
Two people were shot after a man and police traded gunfire Monday night in North Las Vegas, police said.
The city of North Las Vegas had a peak of about 2,200 employees in 2006. By 2014, recession-related cuts had chopped that number in half, City Manager Qiong X. Lu said.
Survey results on school district’s draft policy indicate many parents, educators are divided on whether there is such a thing as appropriate texting between teachers and students.
A woman was shot Saturday afternoon after a domestic incident in the northeast valley.
The former executives of the health care insurance provider for Clark County School District teachers allege in a counterclaim that union officials and the trust board wasted millions with a series of costly no-bid contracts.
North Las Vegas firefighters will get a new aerial ladder truck under a $1.3 million spending plan the City Council approved Wednesday night.
The North Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday agreed to pay for several water and sewer projects by applying for a pair of loans totaling $21.86 million from the state Department of Environmental Protection.
Barefoot young people ages 6-19 eagerly scurried onto a slick, grey dance floor on a recent Monday. They were all smiling and chatting until instructor Tyrell “Mr. T” Rolle called out a five-count for them to get into position.
About 7 p.m., arriving officers found the man with at least one gunshot to the upper body just in front of the Sedona apartment complex, 770 W. Lone Mountain Road, near the Camino Al Norte intersection.
Keyana Webb, 15, logs on to an academic portal to complete homework for her six-week pre-calculus class while most of her friends are working summer jobs or otherwise enjoying summer break. Web goes to school for two hours a day, Mondays through Thursdays.
Clark County commissioners voted more than a year ago to request Nevada’s police standards and training board waive police certification requirements for the North Las Vegas constable due to a medical condition.
Gail Mayhugh of Henderson stepped into the Sunrise Senior Living facility in Henderson on a recent Wednesday morning for the first time in months. Her mother, Theresa “Terry” Hoffmann, who had been living there for about five years, passed away in April.
While Faraday Future walked away from its deal with Nevada, it’s not all bad, the director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development said Monday.
