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  • Tiger Woods and new girlfriend party at poker charity bash

    Tiger Woods and Lindsay Vonn were seen having a good time at the annual Tiger's Poker Night in Las Vegas on Friday. Before the bash at Moorea Beach Club Beachside Casino at Mandalay Bay began, a hotel employee spotted Woods entering the casino with a group of women, including Vonn, 28, Us magazine reported. The employee said that Woods looked like a hot mess, asserting that his hair was all ...

  • Fossil find is a horse of course

    Researchers say this fossil, pulled from the hills north of Las Vegas last year, is the lower jaw and bottom teeth of an extinct ice age horse that roamed the area more than 13,000 years ...

  • Liberty High Schools newspaper staff takes top honors in competition

    There were years they won the most awards, but never THE award for best Clark County high school newspaper. For the past four years, The Tribune staff at Liberty High School has been stuck at third place in the Clark County High School Journalism Awards. They landed second in 2008 and squeezed by with an honorable mention in 2007. But they were never recognized as the best standard-format ...

  • Family employees testify in campaign contribution trial of lobbyist Harvey Whittemore

    RENO - Two more of Harvey Whittemore's former employees testified Monday they each voluntarily contributed $4,600 to Sen. Harry Reid's campaign in 2007 at the suggestion of the wealthy ex-developer and lobbyist but didn't fear for their jobs if they didn't do so. Both said they generally supported Reid's re-election but both also acknowledged they wouldn't have ...

  • Las Vegas police name second suspect in Fremont Street slaying

    Las Vegas police have identified an 18-year-old man as the second suspect in a fatal shooting last month on Fremont Street. Darion Muhammad-Coleman is wanted in the April 19 death of Dale Borero. Authorities consider him armed and dangerous. Officers responded to gunfire on the 2800 block of Fremont Street near Eastern Avenue when they discovered Borero with an apparent gunshot wound to the ...


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Meet Joe Black [DVD]

Meet Joe Black [DVD]

Considering that he is one of the most charismatic and appealing cinematic heartthrobs to come along in quite a while, Brad Pitt has spent much of his career building a resume of odd characters. Already he has played has played a greasy serial killer (Kalifornia), a psychotic in a mental institution (12 Monkeys), a clueless stoner (True Romance), and a tortured vampire (In ... ...

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  • Secretary of state hit with public records lawsuit

    Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller is shown here testifying at the Legislative Building in Carson City, Nev.in March. Miller is being sued by a national Republican organization for failing to turn over what it says are public ...

  • Bill requiring DNA swabs for those arrested for felonies passes Assembly

    CARSON CITY - A bill to require police to take DNA cheek swabs of anyone arrested on a felony charge won approval in the Assembly on Monday. The so-called "Brianna's Law" bill passed on a 29-9 vote, one more than the two-thirds vote needed. The Senate must now consider whether to accept changes made to Senate Bill 243 in the Assembly before it can go to Gov. Brian Sandoval for his ...

  • House passes new version of stolen valor law

    WASHINGTON -- A bill that would make it a crime to lie about receiving honors for military service was passed Monday in the U.S. House. The "Stolen Valor Act of 2013" was approved 390-3 in a vote timed to fall between Armed Forces Day last Saturday and Memorial Day this Monday. "What better way to show our support for our brave servicemen and women than by passing this ...

  • Las Vegas Man Pleads Guilty of Embezzling Turnberry

    LAS VEGAS -- A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in the embezzlement of nearly $5.6 million from Turnberry Associates, Nevada's U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden ...

  • Joe Downtown Local Motors CEO visits Las Vegas

    Monday, May 20, 2013 | 3:50 p.m. One of the newest businesses to gain support from VegasTechFund is Local Motors. Founded five years ago, Local Motors uses crowdsourcing to help in the design of a car, motorcycle or other type of vehicle. John Rogers Jr., president and CEO, last week was in downtown Las Vegas, where VegasTechFund is headquartered. The fund is a tech investment group whose ...

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