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The Fourth of July was celebrated in the valley with a large-scale event put on by the Pahrump Holiday Task Force, with a parade and festivities taking over the Calvada Eye for the holiday.

Pahrump Valley Fire and Rescue Chief Scott Lewis said crews responded to no less than 25 brush fires between 9 p.m. on July 4 through 4 a.m., the following morning; two teens lost limbs from a fireworks explosion; and one fatality was reported from a rollover crash.

Winner Heather Renner will compete in the Miss America Competition later this year.

The coffers of Pioneer Territory Court Appointed Special Advocates, better known simply as CASA, are now several thousand dollars fuller thanks to the organization’s latest fundraising effort, the Hawaiian vacation raffle.

Jeanne Sharp Howerton grew up on a ranch about 100 miles north of the Nevada Test Site. “I didn’t know life without the bombs,” she says.

Pahrump enjoyed a dazzling display of fireworks for Independence Day, while others enjoyed events all weekend. See pictures of the events.

Officials at Death Valley National Park reported that visitors spent $104 million in surrounding Nevada and California communities last year, according to a new National Park Service report.

At a Pahrump Foster Care Panel, foster parents and state officials said Nevada’s rural foster care system is in need of loving, supportive homes.

A Pahrump man is facing burglary and other charges after deputies arrested him while trying to escape on a motorbike.