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- Latino group expands efforts to preserve Colorado River
- Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012
- An organization led by Latinos in five states, including Nevada, wants a new, long-term study of the Colorado River basin to look beyond sustaining a healthy waterway and take into account the basin’s Latino heritage.
- With jobs scarce, immigrants turn to ESL, GED classes
- Students strive to meet language, employment requirements
- Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012
- Adam Melchor did not have trouble finding work in construction when he first arrived in Las Vegas in 2005.
The 43-year-old Mexican immigrant, who was sponsored by relatives here, found abundant opportunities in the construction industry even though he could not speak a word of English. - Mexican national who died in custody arrested weeks earlier on weapons charge
- Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012
- The 36-year-old Mexican national who died at a hospital Tuesday night after being detained by Metro Police and transferred to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was arrested earlier in the month on two weapons charges.
- Mexican national dies in ICE custody in Las Vegas
- Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
- Miguel Sarabia-Ortega, a Mexican national with legal permanent resident status in the United States, died Tuesday evening at a Las Vegas hospital while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
- Tom Coburn’s 'Wastebook' targets three Nevada projects
- Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011
- Sen. Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican known on Capitol Hill as “Dr. No” for his proclivity to single-handedly hold up legislation, has singled out three federally funded Nevada projects as examples of the kind of fat that should have been hacked from the 2011 budget.
- Family prepares a different kind of holiday feast
- Friday, Dec. 23, 2011
- During a typical week, Doña Maria Tamales will produce 200 to 400 pounds of its corn husk-encased specialty. This week, as nearly 300 holiday orders pour in, the Martinez family and their employees will whip up approximately 20 times the normal amount of tamales — 7,000 pounds.
- ‘Layaway angels’ land in Las Vegas Kmarts
- Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011
- They had read about the anonymous gifting in the news and had even seen a few examples at their own store. Nevertheless, when a woman came into a Kmart in northwest Las Vegas on Saturday and donated $14,000 to pay off the delinquent layaway accounts of 60 strangers, store manager Frank Aiello got goose bumps and the employee helping the “layaway angel” broke down in tears.
- Documentary on Mexican drug violence to make weeklong run in Las Vegas theater
- Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011
- The holiday blockbusters dominating movie theater marquees this time of year will get a lesser known and more serious neighbor at one Las Vegas cineplex next week: “8 Murders a Day.”
- Latino police officers bring Christmas to elementary school in the ‘barrio’
- Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011
- Squeals of joy could be heard from the parking lot.
And the reasons became quickly apparent inside the multiuse room at Kermit R. Booker Sr. Elementary School. To the accompaniment of Santa’s chimes and Christmas carols, the Latino Peace Officers Association, in conjunction with several other Las Vegas organizations and businesses, was distributing gifts collected in its annual “Christmas en el Barrio” toy drive. - Dance troupe keeps traditions, new and old, alive
- North Las Vegas family guards weeping statue
- Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011
- The celebration began Sunday night, when a procession of visitors converged on the Perez family home in North Las Vegas, placing dozens of bouquets on the front porch of the persimmon-colored stucco house while a mariachi band belted out Las Mañanitas, the traditional Mexican birthday song. And it continued on Monday, with the faithful showing up at the house — children bundled up to protect them from a cold, persistent drizzle — to see religious dances performed.
- Catholic relic coming to Las Vegas for Mexican religious festival
- Friday, Dec. 9, 2011
- The festival of Our Lady of Guadalupe is always one of the biggest cultural and religious events of the year for Latin American Catholics, but this year’s celebrations should be remembered for years to come.