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  • 91 residents find help from Red Cross management company

    Las Vegas firefighters work at the scene of a three-alarm blaze at the Encantada apartment complex at 401 N. 28th Street in Las Vegas on Sunday. The fire displaced 91 residents, and Advanced Management Group has made sure they had shelter at the company's other properties. Families, neighbors and the Red Cross have also ...

  • Review-Journal wins four Best of the West awards

    Las Vegas Review-Journal staffers won four awards in the 2013 Best of the West contest, including first place in general interest column writing. Best of the West is a contest that rewards journalistic excellence in 14 western states including Nevada. "Obviously the competition is really tough when you're going up against the best newspapers west of the Mississippi," ...

  • Nevada justices reject immigrants drivers license request

    CARSON CITY -- The state Supreme Court has denied granting a Nevada driver's license to a man who might have been better off waiting for the new state driver's authorization cards to go into effect in January. A panel of the high court, in a unanimous 3-0 decision issued last week, refused Laszlo Schoka's petition that the Department of Motor Vehicles be ordered to grant him a ...

  • City panel favors loosening controls on downtown liquor sales

    Buying and selling booze in downtown Las Vegas could be even easier under two proposed city ordinances. On Tuesday the City Council's recommending committee heard the proposals that would loosen some alcohol restrictions under the Fremont Street Experience canopy and in the 18b Arts District. The changes are contained in two proposed ordinances that were approved by the committee 3-0. The ...

  • New Las Vegas Projects Signal Better Economic Times

    LAS VEGAS - The Electric Daisy Carnival takes place this weekend. Hundreds of thousands of people are coming to Las Vegas for what some are calling the party of the year. The annual music festival ...


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After.Life [Blu-Ray]

After.Life [Blu-Ray]

Like last years Orphan, Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloos directorial debut After.Life is a twisty horror-thriller that banks heavily on the audiences tendency to bite right into a genre clich and then willingly question that clich. The difference, though, is that Orphans eve ... ...

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  • New citizens sworn in during Las Vegas ceremony

    About 200 people representing more than 45 countries were sworn in as U.S. citizens Tuesday during a naturalization ceremony at Las Vegas City Hall. U.S. District Court Judge Lloyd D. George presided over the ceremony. The ceremony was part of the city's "Celebrate America" initiative, a program to highlight diversity in Las ...

  • Congressional report says immigration bill cuts deficit

    Jackelin Alfaro, 4, in a T-shirt that reads "Don't Deport my Dad," Tuesday sits in the hall with family members outside the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this ...

  • Chrysler reverses position agrees to Jeep recall

    This March 6, 2012 photo provided by the law offices of Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer, LLP shows the scene of a crash in Bainbridge, Ga., where a 4-year-old boy named Remi Walden was burned and died when a Jeep Grand Cherokee was struck from the rear by a Dodge Dakota pickup truck. Chrysler agreed Tuesday to recall 2.7 million older Jeep ...

  • Authorities Unattended campfire caused California fire

    Large plumes of smoke from the Carstens Fire block the sun in the Sierra National Forest near Jerseydale, Calif., in the Mariposa area on Monday. More than 700 firefighters are battling the Carstens fire which began Sunday ...

  • GOP senators warn Reid that Yucca Mountain could be resurrected

    WASHINGTON -- Aiming where it hurts, Senate Republicans warned Sen. Harry Reid on Tuesday that efforts to curb the filibuster could boomerang on him and lead to the resurrection of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project in Nevada. GOP senators delivered a not-so-veiled threat: Restarting the mothballed nuclear waste repository would be near the top of their to-do list if the 60-vote threshold ...

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