Williams Costume Co. closed April 4, less than three months after owner and founder Nancy Baker’s death left the shop with an uncertain future.
East Valley
Kevin Breen is a fan of the loving community found in church, but he isn’t as thrilled with the concept of God. A few years ago he met several overlapping groups of like-minded people, and the result is a place where atheists, agnostics, humanists and skeptics can gather and share ideas.
Nobody was home when a house caught fire in the east Las Vegas Valley Monday morning.
Two places are named for Sumner Grant Stewart in the valley — but not the one you might expect.
The Monson Trail along the northwest edge of the nature preserve at 7050 E. Wetlands Park Lane will be closed between Monday and Thursday to fix damages to the trail and Monson Channel.
Las Vegas High School staff members are ramping up efforts to help homeless students. The school, 6500 E. Sahara Ave., has 65 Title I HOPE (Homeless Outreach Program for Education) students, but there are many more students who don’t qualify but still need a hand up.
They could have been rivals, but Nick Fotheringham and Jonathan Borchetta realized they’d make better business partners. The result is The Nerd, a new nightclub in Neonopolis, 450 Fremont St. “I wanted to do a comic-con-themed venue,” Borchetta said. “It’s a self-indulgence really. I wanted to fill it with cool stuff I liked.”
The woman who died after she was struck by a Metro patrol car in the central valley was crossing the street outside of a marked crosswalk, North Las Vegas police said.
A southeast valley intersection Saturday night was the scene of two separate crashes that left one pedestrian dead and critically injured another. One of the crashes involved a Metro vehicle.
The Clark County coroner has identified the man who died in a Sunday evening rollover crash in the east valley as Cesar Luna, 33.
Dana Bubp grinned, shook hands and posed with a photo of prominent ham radio author and instructor Gordon West at the three-day American Radio Relay League state convention at the Eastside Cannery.
The crash happened about 7:40 p.m. at the intersection of Tropicana Avenue and Koval Lane.
A bicyclist was hospitalized Monday morning after hitting a curb and suffering a head injury in the east Las Vegas Valley.
It might sound like Clark County’s newly appointed public guardian, Karen Kelly, should be fighting crime in a cape and tights.
Las Vegas police need help finding three men who tried to rob an east valley business last month.