Local Las Vegas
Visitors to Jean-Marie Auboine’s business are greeted by the overpowering fragrance of chocolate and perfectly preserved chocolate statues. A dragon, eagle, monkey and goblin occupy a desk that would usually belong to a receptionist.
For Centennial Hills resident Sue Gaines, it was the hospital social worker she met after her daughter’s suicide attempt who changed her family’s life. She gave Gaines the phone number for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Survivors of domestic violence, including a woman whose hands were severed in a machete attack, make a united stand Monday against the culture of silence and shame that can prevent victims from seeking life-saving help. The third annual Walk Against Domestic Violence Homicide, sponsored by Safe Faith United, drew about 50 people. It began at the Doolittle Community Center on J Street and ended on Stella Street, near Lake Mead and Martin Luther King boulevards.
The owners of The City Stop convenience store chain sold the businesses to a Colorado-based company but retained the Nevada Gaming Partners slot machine route operation that services the games inside the 11 stores.
It reached 99 degrees Sunday in Las Vegas, a record high for April 22, according to the National Weather Service.
Sunday’s temperature beat the previous high temperature for the date set in 1939, when it hit 97 degrees.
On his classic song “Juicy” the late Notorious B.I.G. rapped, “You never thought that hip-hop would take it this far.” More than 15 years later, Las Vegan Jojo Peralta knows exactly what he meant.
Norman Harris was one of 14 people disenrolled from the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe in 1999 after tribal officials said they didn’t meet the “blood quantum” required for membership.
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