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UNLV’S first graduate recalls a markedly different school

In the late 1950s, Jon Cobain wanted to see the world, but his blue-collar background and lack of experience made that a challenge. That changed when he became UNLV’s first graduate.

East Las Vegas house fire sends smoke into nearby middle school

A house fire stemming from an unattended grill in east Las Vegas caused so much smoke to billow Thursday afternoon that a nearby middle school had to shut off its air conditioning system to prevent smoke inhalation.

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Las Vegas’ Huntridge-area residents embrace game nights at park

Huntridge neighborhood residents have been having a ball. In fact, they’ve been having several and banging them into other balls and smashing them with mallets. Since Apirl, neighbors have been meeting from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Huntridge Circle Park, 1251 S. Maryland Parkway, just south of Charleston Boulevard, to play lawn games, including croquet, bocce and badminton.

Hammargren’s Las Vegas treasures losing home — PHOTOS

Are you in the market for a full-sized paper mache replica of a brontosaurus skeleton? How about an iron lung or a 200-year-old, 37-foot Venetian gondola? Former Lt. Gov. Lonnie Hammargren has it all.

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