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  • Justin Bieber teams up with Child Hunger Ends Here campaign

    Justin Bieber surprised the young students of a Las Vegas primary school on Friday after he visited the place to declare that he had partnered up with Child Hunger Ends Here campaign. The 19-year-old singer, who dropped by Whitney Elementary School ahead of his performance at Sunday's Billboard Music Awards, spent time giving food donations to the children as they shed tears of joy after ...

  • Henderson awards contract for pedestrian bridge

    The Henderson City Council awarded a $170,000 contract Tuesday for the construction of a pedestrian bridge near the intersection of Galleria Drive and Stephanie Street. City staff proposed the bridge in response to area residents who have long requested pedestrian access over a flood control channel that runs along Stephanie Street. "That wash has been a natural obstruction for years that ...

  • Henderson City Council approves 2014 budget

    By City Manager Jacob Snow's definition, Henderson is not a "premier city" yet, but it's getting close. Snow likes to say that Henderson cannot meet its goal of being a premier city without a balanced budget. Although it doesn't have one yet, Snow predicts it will by the end of fiscal 2014. "We're moving in the right direction," the city manager said last ...

  • Las Vegas approves $482 million general fund budget with deficit predicted for 2014

    A little time didn't make much difference for the Las Vegas 2014 budget: City Hall still predicts a $10 million general fund deficit. The City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved next year's spending plan with small adjustments made since council members got a first look at the document in April. That included adding 1.5 city-funded positions and slightly increasing the amount of ...

  • County commissioners consider codes governing reflexology establishments

    Clark County Commissioner Mary Beth Scow has heard complaints from residents about reflexology establishments offering full body massages and advertising "personal services." Commissioners on Tuesday discussed putting reflexology establishments under the same county code requirements as massage therapists. If commissioners end up approving the change, that could mean reflexology ...


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Movie Review

Driven

As an action movie, Renny Harlin's Driven isn't very good. It isn't very good as a human drama, either. But, as a thinly disguised allegory for the fading career of action star Sylvester Stallone, who both stars in and wrote the movie, it is a perversely enjoyable ride filled with retro pleasures and immense camp potential. Straight-out action fans might be wowed to a limited extent by the ... ...

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  • Bill would divert some water sewer funds to provide a little relief in North Las Vegas

    Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | 6:43 p.m. Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick, D-North Las Vegas, plans to introduce a bill that would give the North Las Vegas financial relief. She said her bill would allow the city to access an indeterminate amount of money currently locked in its water and sewer funds. City residents pay into the funds via their water and sewer bills, and the city usually spends ...

  • Madagascar lemurs multiply in Moapa

    A staff member at Roos-N-More zoo on Tuesday holds a baby red-ruffed lemur, one of three of that were born at the small, family-owned facility in Moapa on May ...

  • County seeks federal help to use mountainside land for recreation

    Clark County owns about 1,221 acres of land with mountain ridges on the western edge the valley. It has received inquiries from private companies interested in leasing some of the scenic land and bringing an added recreational dimension to the area, such as a zip line or a mountain biking facility. But federal restrictions on the land, which the county received from the Bureau of Land Management ...

  • Kingman childcare owner sentenced to prison in tax case

    A northwest Arizona businesswoman was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison for withholding nearly $320,000 in income taxes between 2004 and 2011. A U.S. district judge in Phoenix also ordered Raycene Osterman, 55, to pay full restitution to the IRS and undergo three years of supervision upon her release. Osterman is the founder and president of K-Top, Inc., the parent company for ...

  • Sandoval signs transgender hate crime bill

    CARSON CITY -- A bill allowing judges to impose extra sentences on people who commit crimes because the victim is a transgender person was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Brian Sandoval. Senate Bill 139 was sponsored Sen. Patricia Spearman, D-North Las Vegas, a pastor and openly gay member of the Legislature. Sandoval had previously indicated he would sign the measure. Spearman said in earlier ...

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