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Downtown Las Vegas resident Joyce Vought-Klopp Gilbert, who writes under the pen name C.J. Comstock, was inspired to write during the decades she spent in prison. The author wasn’t an inmate; she was a corrections officer in Pennsylvania, first at a women’s prison and then at Graterford Prison, the fourth-largest men’s prison in the country, where she worked as a training sergeant. One inmate inspired her to take up poetry, and a second encouraged her efforts in fiction.
This week’s book event highlights include a new media expert’s lecture on the ethics of digital ditching, the All-Stars Slam of Poetry and readings by UNLV students at NeonLit.
The National Weather Service has issued a “freeze warning” from 10 p.m. tonight until 9 a.m. Tuesday. Weather is expected to dip to between 23 degrees and 30 degrees throughout the valley.
A family of three was hospitalized Sunday morning after sustaining carbon monoxide poisoning because of a gas fireplace, the Las Vegas Fire Department said.
An accidental fire caused by a natural gas fireplace caused $475,000 damage to a west valley home late Saturday night, the Las Vegas Fire Department said Sunday.
Even 70 years after the “date which will live in infamy,” horrific memories of the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor still burn in the minds of veterans who survived the attack.
Las Vegas is defined by the gaming industry, and documenting its ebbs and flows was a passion for Jeff Simpson.
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You don’t build a person with a single blueprint. Instead, you build them with a thousand small, unseen moments. A question that cracks open a new world. A line of red ink that teaches you to mean what you say. A quiet nod of encouragement from across a chaotic classroom. This is a letter of thanks to the architects of those moments, my teachers at Lewis E. Rowe Elementary School, Helen C. Cannon Junior High School, and Valley High School.
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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.
Zoox will expand its Las Vegas robotaxi service to include one of the city’s popular sporting and live event venues beginning next year.
A routine drive from Tonopah to Las Vegas in March nearly ended in death for Carmen Losito after being shot. He thanked the UMC Trauma medics who saved him on Wednesday.
The incidents started in February and have occurred throughout various parts of the valley, according to a Metropolitan Police Department release.
