Local Las Vegas
A man in a wheelchair gives a middle-finger salute to cars exiting the freeway onto Tropicana Avenue. The traffic is heavy and fast on this recent Monday afternoon and no one acknowledges the man with a long, gray beard and wild hair panhandling at the intersection near the Strip. Car windows remain up; his cardboard sign asking for help is ignored. Today, these drivers are not in a giving mood.
Tony Freeman was forced to move after The Salvation Army shut down its mental health program, displacing 75 homeless and mentally ill clients. Freeman worried about becoming depressed and suicidal.
Hundreds of pickets with the local Culinary and Bartender unions broke free of their monotonous circular rhythm and danced to the beat of live music on Fremont Street on Saturday.
The morning after a record-breaking rainstorm soaked the valley, motorists were surprised to find their morning commute interrupted by a slow-moving boat at the Spaghetti Bowl.
Two men who say they’re California law school students have been arrested after police say they killed and decapitated an exotic bird at the Flamingo.
The U.S. Senate campaigns for Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., and Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., tussle over “these people,” a phrase Heller used at Thursday night’s debate to refer to Hispanics.
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