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  • Justin Bieber teams up with Child Hunger Ends Here campaign

    Justin Bieber surprised the young students of a Las Vegas primary school on Friday after he visited the place to declare that he had partnered up with Child Hunger Ends Here campaign. The 19-year-old singer, who dropped by Whitney Elementary School ahead of his performance at Sunday's Billboard Music Awards, spent time giving food donations to the children as they shed tears of joy after ...

  • Consultant at Desai trial More clinic patients better sales price

    In the mid-2000s, Dr. Dipak Desai was shopping his clinics around and, as his business consultant testified Tuesday, facilities with higher volumes of traffic garnered the higher sales price. Lawrence Preston, a health care consultant, said endoscopy clinics could go for around $5 million or $6 million. Most of the national companies that expressed interest in Desai's Shadow Lane facility ...

  • Police investigating suspicious death at Las Vegas house

    Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | 12:26 p.m. Metro Police homicide detectives were investigating a suspicious death Tuesday at a house in the 8000 block of Green Pasture Avenue in northwest Las Vegas. Police were called about 11 a.m. after a woman was found dead in the house in the area of Lone Mountain Road and Durango Drive, police spokesman Sgt. John Shehan said. A homicide unit was dispatched because ...

  • Incident fuels speculation of Pope Francis as exorcist

    VATICAN CITY -- Is Pope Francis an exorcist? The question has bubbled up ever since Francis laid his hands on the head of a young man in a wheelchair after celebrating Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, shook, then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over him. The television station of the Italian bishops' conference reported ...

  • Key figure indicted in Las Vegas HOA scheme claimed Attorney General Masto approved his plan

    Leon Benzer, indicted in a scheme to take over homeowners associations in the Las Vegas Valley, says he had approval from Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez ...


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Movie Review

What Women Want [DVD]

What Women Want [DVD]

Playing Nick Marshall, the wealthy, successful, male-chauvinist Chicago ad executive in What Women Want marks the first time Mel Gibson has played the lead role in a straight romantic comedy. While the more recent entries into the Lethal Weapon franchise have played like comedies with an extreme body count, Gibson has never been in a movie like this one, which is surprising beca ... ...

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  • Arias reverses on death penalty asks jurors for life sentence

    Jodi Arias told a jury on Tuesday that she can contribute to society through volunteer programs in prison. She was allowed to address the jury as part of the penalty phase, following her conviction in the death of Travis Alexander. Arias, shown here during a May 1 court appearance, could get the death ...

  • Nevada gun background checks bill clears Senate Finance

    Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son Jesse was killed in Newtown, Conn., in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December, speaks on Tuesday in Carson City during a rally to require background checks on private sale gun purchases in Nevada. Gilles Rousseau, left, whose daughter Lauren was among the staff killed that day, also spoke at the rally. Senate Bill 221 passed the Senate Finance ...

  • The Hangover Part III revisits Las Vegas

    New Delhi, May 21 : The third installment of "The Hangover" series will take the lead characters of the movie back to Las Vegas, where the plot of the first movie was ...

  • Photographer describes destroyed Oklahoma school rescue of children

    A child is pulled from beneath a collapsed wall at Plaza Towers Elementary School Monday after a tornado struck the school in Moore, Okla. The tornado, as much as a mile wide with winds up to 200 mph, roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening entire neighborhoods and landing a direct blow on this elementary ...

  • Nevada Senate kills special license plate bill

    CARSON CITY -- In a rare vote that killed a bill, the Senate late Monday evening on a 10-11 vote rejected an Assembly-approved bill that would have limited the designs charitable groups can place on special license plates. Assembly Bill 243 was among only four bills that have been killed this session, which has just two weeks to go, according to Senate Secretary David Byerman. Sen. Don ...

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