Just nine weeks before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law, Martin Luther King Jr. urged Las Vegans to “scratch out a note” to their senators in support of the landmark legislation.
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The first Las Vegas parade in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., held in 1982, included only 13 entries. Now in its 29th year, the festive downtown parade, which starts at 10 a.m. Monday, has about 150 entries, including floats, marching bands, pint-sized cheerleaders, police cruisers, and youth sports and drill teams.
Sarann Knight Preddy considers herself an accidental local civil rights icon. The 90-year-old former businesswoman, celebrated for being the first black woman to hold a Nevada gaming license and for long working to restore the historic Moulin Rouge, says many of her accomplishments stemmed from simply “being in the right place at the right time.”
Authorities are asking the public’s help in locating a woman involved in a fatal three-car accident early Tuesday.
Nevada Highway Patrol troopers said Natalie Dawn Dubuisson, 31, slammed into two vehicles on Interstate 15 south of State Route 160 about 2:08 a.m., killing one person.
For three Las Vegas Valley families, ones turned up in bunches on Tuesday as they welcomed babies into the world. Christopher James Lee was born at 1:11 p.m. on Jan. 11 at St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena campus, in Henderson. At the same minute, Lylah Lynne Barnes entered a world full of ones at Spring Valley Hospital Medical Center in the southwest valley.
Demolition work began Wednesday on Opportunity Village’s Main Street thrift store, which was gutted by fire last year. A temporary location for the thrift store, which is one of several Opportunity Village endeavors, is thriving.
A 25-year-old California man who was one of hundreds of thousands of New Year’s Eve revelers on the Strip was killed after an apparent fall from a rooftop at Planet Hollywood Resort. Adrian Carlin’s body wasn’t found until Jan. 3, investigators said.
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