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Five people on a sightseeing tour died Wednesday in a helicopter crash at the Lake Mead National Recreation area, the park service said.
Irwin Molasky has made a tidy fortune over his 60 years of developing shopping malls, office buildings and
high-rise condominiums in Las Vegas, largely because he’s pretty shrewd about land prices.
Opportunity Village’s Magical Forest is open from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and from 5:30 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday through Dec. 31. Admission is $9.75 for adults and $7.75 for children 12 or younger. Toddlers 2 or younger are free. Attraction passports for adults and kids are available starting at $14.25, and season passes are available starting at $25. Tickets can be purchased at the event, at any Opportunity Village campus, at CVS Pharmacy locations and at magicalforest.org.
“On the Come Up” by Travis Hunter is a young adult book that doesn’t include profanity, blood and guts, sappy romance or magic and is totally without vampires.
Hundreds of homeless schoolchildren and their families from Clark County School District’s Performance Zone 3 received a meal Nov. 24 at Cimarron-Memorial High School, 2301 N. Tenaya Way. More than 600 families from the zone’s 28 schools were invited to attend the school district’s inaugural Thanksgiving Dinner.
Question: I planted an orchard about 4 years ago here in Pahrump. I planted many different fruit varieties and have come to find some of them do not work here. Their blossoms and foliage, in most cases, are very beautiful, but the fruit does not ripen. I was wondering about some other fruit trees that may work in our area.
There is no place in sports for dirty play. Celebration, ecstasy, joy — yes! Taunting, hot-dogging — no! I just have this thing for class, especially class under fire. Which brings me to Thanksgiving Day, the Detroit Lions and defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, whose mother was apparently attacked by a gang of consonants while pregnant with him.
“Take this job and shove it. I ain’t working here no more.” Those words from my favorite country song occurred to me last week in my day job, following a particularly busy week. Running a golf course could be fun. Running two would probably double the excitement.
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Harrah’s Las Vegas would like to congratulate famed Las Vegas headliner and legendary U.S. entertainer Donny Osmond for again taking home the gold. For five years running, he has won the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Best of Las Vegas readers poll for entertainment awards.
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As members of Las Vegas’ Jewish community prepare to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah on Sunday, the Festival of Lights has been overshadowed by a shooting in Australia at a Hanukkah celebration.
Two fatal crashes happened on Friday with two more reported Saturday, police said.
Superintendent Jhone Ebert said more than 200 students in Clark County have been struck this year, a remarkable increase from years prior. A new bill aims to curb that.
Southern Nevada has moved beyond “unreasonable warmth” and into record-breaking territory, after Las Vegas officially broke the daily record Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.
