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Security video of Drai’s nightclub shooting released

The security footage is sobering. Benjamin Frazier, angry over paying a $30 cover charge at Drai’s After Hours nightclub inside Bally’s on the Strip in October, is seen arguing with a security guard at the club inside Bally’s.

Attorney pleads guilty in Las Vegas court counseling scheme

Defense lawyer Brian Bloomfield pleaded guilty in District Court Wednesday to several felony and gross misdemeanor charges in a sweeping courthouse counseling scheme.

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Light sentence given in Las Vegas bank fraud scheme

Earl Gross, an ailing former mortgage company president, was given a light federal prison sentence Wednesday in an $8.4 million bank fraud scheme.

Opportunity Village Nativity

Katherine Brian portrays the Virgin Mary, and other volunteers perform as angels, in a live Nativity performance Tuesday at Opportunity Village, 6050 S. Buffalo Drive. The free, 25-minute shows follow the biblical account of Jesus Christ’s birth. Performances are at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. today and Thursday and 6 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The 7 p.m. performance today is in Spanish.

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Dining events and news from across the valley.

Deadline today for Christmas packages to military addresses

If you’re trying to send some Christmas cheer to a special someone at a military installation, hurry to the post office. All priority and first class packages need to mailed Tuesday in order to make it by Christmas.

Saucer transports kids into educational zone

With all of the construction going on at the Downtown Container Park, it wasn’t too surprising when a flying saucer landed nearby in mid-November.

‘Tanked’ cast crafts snow globe aquarium for Henderson’s WinterFest

WinterFest is scheduled from Dec. 12-14 at the Henderson Events Plaza, 200 S. Water St. The event transforms the Water Street District into an old-fashioned Christmas with activities and decorations and a giant snow globe aquarium courtesy of the cast from “Tanked.”

Expectations are the highest form of respect

Really appreciate your column of Dec. 4 (tinyurl.com/m4sjxoj) … up until the final line, where respect is associated with having high expectations of others. If you respect them, you will have no expectations of them. Respect isn’t about imposing or judging. Those things are the opposite of respect. Respect is about honoring, listening, being open to who the person is right now. Expectations are a form of soft cruelty. They limit the person’s right to wake up as any form of person they choose. They chain a person to other peoples’ “expectations.” True respect is a form of love, of appreciation.