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Honor Flight plans pancake breakfast

Harley-Davidson will host a pancake breakfast Saturday to raise money for Honor Flight Southern Nevada, a nonprofit organization that sends local World War II veterans on airline flights to see memorials in Washington, D.C.

Booker school lockdown over; false alarm

A Las Vegas elementary school was on lockdown briefly Thursday afternoon while police investigated reports of a person with a gun in a parked car near the front of the school.

Coroner identifies child killed in Wednesday crash

The Clark County coroner’s office on Thursday identified the boy killed in a rollover crash on the flyover ramp from northbound U.S. Highway 95 to the Summerlin Parkway on Wednesday.

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A 32-year-old Gardnerville man convicted of drug trafficking has been sentenced to up to 25 years in prison after a judge found him to be a habitual criminal.

 
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Police in Nevada have arrested a man suspected of tying a bowling ball to a dog and drowning it in the American River in Sacramento, Calif.

Literary Las Vegas: Gina Pearl

If you’re unswayed by unapologetic graphic violence, Las Vegas-based writer Gina Pearl is ready to take you on an insane ride through the eyes of a trio of trained killers as they battle to escape the control of a demon.

FEMA aid authorized for Southern Nevada flood area

President Barack Obama has issued a disaster declaration to allow federal aid for a Southern Nevada area affected by severe storms and flooding in early September.

Clark County schools’ maintenance costs snowball to $7B

The value of Clark County School District’s 357 campuses and real estate totals a whopping $7 billion, but the cost of needed renovations in the coming years is roughly just as much, according to district officials.

School garden yields more crops than imagined

At Walter Bracken STEAM Academy, they still teach the three Rs: radishes, rhubarb and rutabagas.

Man injured in east valley drive-by shooting

A man was shot in the foot in an east valley drive-by shooting Wednesday evening, Las Vegas police reported.

County Republicans: GOP will do it better next time

The Democrats swept all three Clark County Commission races, but the Republican tide certainly made two of the three incumbents look more vulnerable.

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