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Dining Pick of the Week: Lucky Foo’s Restaurant & Bar

Billed as an “American Izakaya,” Lucky Foo’s serves as a modern Japanese-styled hangout for casual drinks after work or dinner before a night on the town.

Dining Pick of the Week: Jun’s Korean

Tucked into a strip mall on Craig Road, Jun’s Korean Restaurant offers traditional Korean dishes in a casual setting.

Las Vegas Fire Department responds to four cooking fires

The Las Vegas Fire Department responded to four separate cooking-related, noninjury fires Thursday between about 4 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., prompting fire department spokesman Tim Szymanski to remind people that cooking fires are completely preventable.

Nevada juvenile facilities neglect to seek education funding

Nevada’s three juvenile correctional facilities are failing to seek education reimbursements that could save about $632,000 annually, according to a recent state audit.

New psychiatric beds credited with relieving valley emergency rooms

The number of mentally ill patients waiting in valley emergency rooms for psychiatric facility placements significantly decreased in December, with only 29 people in that situation as of Tuesday. That’s a surprising new low for a population that had been climbing, pushing several emergency rooms to capacity and forcing them to close to new patients in 2014.