The Rev. Marion D. Bennett Sr., former Nevada assemblyman and defender of civil rights who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s and founded the first black Methodist church in Las Vegas, has died.
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A centerpiece in Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project moved forward Tuesday despite concerns it could expose teenagers and children to alcohol and booze-fueled activities.
Mary Bobier was sitting at her kitchen table after she returned from grocery shopping Sept. 11, 2012. Through the glass door in the back of her house, she saw something that came as a surprise.
After back-to-back thunderstorms last weekend, the National Weather Service has issued a flash-flood watch until 11 p.m. Tuesday for Clark County.
Veterans Village, 1150 Las Vegas Blvd. South, looks like a newly renovated upscale motel but is more than that.
As a chance of rain, thunderstorms and high winds continues through the week, 18 residents of Atrium Gardens have moved across the street to Desert Pines High School.
As Nevada’s Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital works to correct deficiencies and broaden services for the mentally ill, officials at other valley hospitals struggling under the burden of a patient population they’re ill-equipped to serve worry that too little is being done too slowly.
The Clark County Museum wants people to walk a mile in other people’s shoes — and hats. As a matter of fact, it wants people to explore more than a century’s worth of American footwear and headwear with its upcoming exhibit.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Henderson and Las Vega announced July 10 that they are planning to merge into the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada with Ken Rubeli as director.
Johnnie Walker RV, a local family-owned recreation vehicle business, recently attracted national attention on Animal Planet’s cable television show “Tanked.” On the show, Las Vegas-based Acrylic Tank Manufacturing constructed a fish tank inside a trailer to celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary.
Kick. Push. Coast. Turn. Heels down. Chest up. Jump. Hands out. Bend knees. Land. Hands down. Kick. Push. Coast.
North Las Vegas 22-year-old Arthur D. Whigham makes his writing debut with the novel “Exodus.” The book follows the adventures of Jack Russell, a young man who always knew he was different. Jack was intellectually advanced, could read at 2 and was watched over as a child by a transparent man in a top hat whom no one else could see. Jack’s uniqueness was confirmed in high school when he was thrown into a supernatural world full of angels and demons.
It took awhile, but officer Jacquar Roston admitted his mistakes in the November shooting of an unarmed man.
Literary announcements of note include Henderson author Ken Hinman planning to bring the tractor that inspired his picture book “Jimmy John the Tractor” on a visit from 10 to 10:45 a.m. July 24 to the Gibson Library, 100 W. Lake Mead Parkway.
Peter Dixon was driving his car north on South Jones Boulevard just past Alta Drive when he hit a loose water valve cover. The 7-inch metal discs that rest atop water valves usually are level with the street. Not this one.