Melanie Tascione was 22 when her 3-year-old daughter started exhibiting signs of extreme anxiety and physcial harm. She was careful with her responses, she says, as she didn’t want her daughter to have a childhood like hers.
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Upon receiving a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Mississippi, Mia has worked as a copy editing intern with the Seattle Times and recently joined the the Las Vegas Review-Journal as a reporter. She’s had several years of experience as a freelance reporter for The Daily Mississippian, and served some time as a copy editor for the paper as well. In her spare time, she works as a part-time English tutor for Brainfuse, an online tutoring service for high school and college students.
Four years ago, senior Donovan Souder never saw himself taking a journalism class at Spring Valley High School. His mind was occupied by sports — baseball, basketball and anything else that would keep him from writing, he said.
Summerlin teen Nana Sarfo was 3 when she started collecting toy pets from Hasbro’s Littlest Pet Shop (LPS), a toy franchise that arose in the early ’90s.
The outskirts of Las Vegas Valley may experience freezing overnight temperatures into Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.
Traffic officers were investigating a crash between a Las Vegas police vehicle and a car early Monday at the intersection of Rainbow Boulevard and Russell Road.
Summerlin resident Katie Fiorillo, 26, was 17 when she was diagnosed with anorexia. Overwhelmed by the combined stress of high school, extracurricular activities and applying for colleges, she started eating less and less, withdrawing from family and friends, losing a significant amount of weight.
“Step, lift, punch!” a handful of students shouted as they lifted their racquets in the air, following an instructor during tennislessons Saturday at Craig Ranch Regional Park.
In September, eight Faith Lutheran students visited Kenya through a partnership with World Vision, a Christian nonprofit that provides aid to impoverished countries.
The Clark County Coroner’s office on Monday released the identity of a 34-year-old man found dead last week in North Las Vegas.
A 19-year-old man believed to be one of several people involved in a gang-related attack in North Las Vegas that left an 11-year-old girl dead last week, has been identified.
Joseph Frank was about a year old the night Nazi troops raided his home and detained his father during Kristallnacht, a two-day massacre throughout Germany in which about 100 Jews were killed and their communities were left in ruins.
In conjunction with Gary Stern of Stern Pinball, Joe Kaminkow created a Beatles-themed pinball machine series that will feature music from eight Beatles performances: “A Hard Day’s Night,” “All My Loving,” “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Drive My Car,” “Help!,” “I Should Have Known Better,” “It Won’t Be Long” and “Ticket to Ride.” Only 1,964 are being made, reflecting the year in which the Beatles came to America.
The exercise Oct. 17 came after the Henderson Fire Department’s recent purchase of a $5,000 water raft that will allow them it to more easily access people stranded in high or fast-moving water. The technical team is housed at Station 82.
Violet Baldwin, a former Centennial Hills resident and film student at the College of Southern Nevada, was one of several students whose films were shown Oct. 12 at the seventh annual CSN Short Film Showcase at Nicholas J. Horne Theater on the CSN North Las Vegas Campus. Her films “Que Vida” and “Lance, Camera, Action,” about magician Lance Burton, were featured in the show.
Children and staff members filled the halls of the Summerlin Hospital Medical Center children’s ward, celebrating a former patient’s makeup collection launch.