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  • Museum starts night tours of signs from Vegas past

    LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The junked signs that attracted throngs to old Las Vegas have for years gathered dust in a neon boneyard just a few miles from the sleek mega-casinos on the ...

  • Thousands of bridges at risk of freak collapse

    The collapse of an interstate highway bridge in Washington state brings new attention to the limits of the country’s infrastructure, especially older structures that were designed with little room for error and were never intended to carry the number of cars and trucks they see ...

  • Wheelchair lift out of Wisconsin promises more access

    This April 2013 photo provided by Joe Kloptic shows a prototype called the Funicular in Madison, Wis. A University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professor, students and others helped come up with it after getting in touch with a local elementary school that wasn't handicapped accessible. The platform uses rollers and a modified chain hoist that allows the wheelchair users to use their ...

  • As Lake Mead shrinks California uses more than its share of water

    As water managers in Nevada and elsewhere fight to keep Lake Mead as full as possible, an irrigation district in California has significantly overdrawn its Colorado River allotment over the past three years. The Imperial Valley Irrigation District is the single largest water user on the Colorado, but it is "isolating itself" with its actions, said Pat Mulroy, general manager of the ...

  • Legislation tasks campus authority with defining designing new UNLV stadium

    Funding plan for new UNLV stadium still relies on tax infusion (3-1-2012) /inline-content --> The UNLV stadium bill was gutted of a key provision this week: creation of a special tax district around the university to help finance the proposed on-campus facility. Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick, D-North Las Vegas, introduced an amended bill Thursday that has no language pertaining to a ...


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The Last Emperor [DVD]

The Last Emperor [DVD]

Bernardo Bertoluccis The Last Emperor is a grand sweep of a film--a massive, overflowing, almost ridiculously ambitious epic that covers more than six decades of turbulent political and social history. Bertolucci has a love of the intimate, which informs his best films, but h ... ...

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  • Las Vegas resort beaches offer oasis in middle of the desert

    Top 10 water attractions in Las Vegas -- From VEGAS.com /inline-content --> In the scorching heat of the Mojave, stumbling upon a tropical beach might seem like a mirage. But in Las Vegas, it seems anything is possible. A neon beacon of luxury and excess, this desert city features several manmade sand beaches, some decorated with tropical flowers and dotted with towering palms. As the city ...

  • Its back New Wet n Wild wins over frolickers thirsty for Las Vegas water park

    Tennis legend Andre Agassi, Clark County Commissioner Susan Brager and Wet ‘n’ Wild Las Vegas investors Roger and Scott Bulloch of SPB Partners prepare to cut a ceremonial red ribbon made fittingly of swimwear during the park’s grand opening on Friday, May 24, 2013. Kids in candy-colored swimsuits squirmed anxiously during the ceremony as they waited for the green light to ride ...

  • Las Vegas prison guard conspired with security guard to rob bank www.privateofficercom

    Benjamin Kyker is very familiar with the Nevada prisons system, but the veteran prison guard could soon be bunking with the kind of men he's been guarding. Kyker, a sergeant with the Southern Desert Correctional Center in Indian Springs, was arrested Thursday and faces charges in connection to conspiring with a security guard to rob a bank. According to his Las Vegas police arrest report, ...

  • Former prisoners on road to workforce reentry

    Standing in a black pinstripe suit, 56-year-old Michael Bohan quoted the final lines of Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" to 27 men and women who graduated Friday from a week-long leadership workshop that helps newly released prisoners reenter the workforce. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference," ...

  • School Board to hold new vote on superintendent selection

    Current Clark County School District Interim Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky interviews for the permanent position in front of CCSD board members, from left, Chris Garvey, Dr. Linda Young, and Erin Cranor in Las Vegas on Tuesday ...

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