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Cheryl Lucas is part of a charity that does free professional photography, often when a serviceperson returns from deployment. On Nov. 21, the camera was turned in the other direction, as her husband, Capt. Mike Lucas with the U.S. Air Force, returned from a six-month deployment.
Since 2010, Jenn Lim has made more than 300,000 people happy. She is the chief happiness officer, CEO and co-founder, along with Tony Hsieh, of Delivering Happiness, a nonprofit with the goal of changing the world by doing just that.
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When it comes to sudden cardiac arrest, professionals have one message to the public: Do something, anything. Six residents gathered Nov. 17 at the Centennial Hills Community Center, 6601 N. Buffalo Drive, to learn to save a life through hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas associate professor of architecture Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez is no stranger to teaching awards the list is long and full of prestigious titles. In November, it got a little longer when he was named the 2012 Nevada Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
Before the show, the audience knows what it is in for. The host, Nic “Kopy” Kopatich, tells them, “This is going to be dirty.”
In an unassuming library above a downtown Las Vegas coffee shop, a technological revolution is quietly taking place. The Jelly movement, a type of casual co-working, did not start in Las Vegas, or even the U.S., but members of the various Vegas Jellies may have perfected it.
The Clark County Coroner has identified a woman slain in a triple shooting Saturday night that left two dead and another wounded.
Three hours before his clients arrived at the Las Vegas Grand Prix last year, Nevada Stupak was already there, walking the route they’d take that evening. He rode the shuttle to time it. Scoped out the Paddock Club grounds. Found the spots where the light would hit just right for photos. Reserved the best table in the hospitality suite. Even talked his way into getting them front-row seats for a driver’s speech.
Two popular brands of frozen potato products have been voluntarily recalled after it was discovered they may have been contaminated with foreign bodies during the production process.
Antwone Washington was a coach and campus security officer before he was accused of having a sexual relationship with a student.
The second full week of the new year will bring warmer temperatures to the Las Vegas Valley, according to the National Weather Service.
After a one-year pause, the Southern Nevada Homeless Continuum of Care’s Point in Time Count is resuming on Jan. 29.
