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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • State senators approve bill for driver authorization cards

    CARSON CITY-- On a 20-1 vote, state senators on Monday passed a bill that would allow people who are not in the country legally to acquire driver authorization cards. Under the bill, they would have to pass a driving test before they could acquire the card, which cannot be used for identification purposes. The annual fee for renewing the driver's card is $18.50. Four states, including Utah ...

  • Henderson program helps students with math needs

    After seeing improvements to test scores or advancement in math curriculum, students who come to Mathease always have the same reaction, according to the program's tutors. "They always say, 'I wish I knew about this program sooner,'" said Patricia Gordon, owner of the tutoring company Mathease. "The program works because we empower students." Mathease, which ...

  • Water district authority approve new budgets

    The valley's wholesale water supplier and its largest water utility have adopted spending plans for the coming year that seem to mirror the local economy at large -- mostly flat but showing signs of growth. Under a final budget approved Monday, the Las Vegas Valley Water District expects to cut its spending by about $4.2 million while adding about $4 million to its reserve fund during the ...


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Movie Review

An Ideal Husband [DVD]

An Ideal Husband [DVD]

"An Ideal Husband" is an amusing comedy of manners that takes a sharp look at love, marriage, honesty and public scandal. The film, adapted from the play by Oscar Wilde and directed by Oliver Parker (who also adapted and directed Shakespeare's "Othello" in 1995), successfully alternates between a light, witty touch, and a darker, more somber exploration of public humiliation and the price of ... ...

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  • Henderson Municipal Court Judge Department 1 election set for June 4

    Incumbent Henderson Municipal Court Judge Mark Stevens, left, presents Warner Smith with a certificate of achievement at the court, 243 Water St., March 22 as part of the Veterans Court program. Stevens received 41.88 percent of the votes in the April primary election and his challenger, Sandra Allred DiGiacomo, received 40.75 ...

  • Cowboy out Silver Sevens on the way

    Construction crews with Federal Heath Sign Company take down the cowboy sign at Terrible's Hotel & Casino on Paradise Road Monday in preparation for the hotel-casino's transition to its new name, the Silver Sevens Hotel & Casino. The neon sign will be donated to the Neon Museum in downtown Las ...

  • Desai was frugal but didnt risk patient safety clinic doctor testifies

    A second gastroenterologist who worked closely with Dr. Dipak Desai testified Monday that Desai operated his endoscopy clinics in a frugal manner but did not put patients' safety at risk. Dr. Vishvinder Sharma performed colonoscopies and upper endoscopies at Desai's clinics between 1994 and 2008, when the facilities closed following a hepatitis C outbreak that contaminated seven ...

  • Las Vegas officer in shooting identified

    Las Vegas police investigators collect evidence Thursday after an officer-involved shooting in a parking lot near East Charleston Boulevard and Bruce Street. Police officer Michael Donovan shot and wounded a man police say was brandishing a pellet ...

  • Full-day kindergarten garners support not funding from lawmakers

    CARSON CITY-- Senate Finance Committee members backed a bill Monday that would require full-day kindergarten in all Nevada elementary schools, but removed a requirement to provide state funds to carry out that mandate. Their support for Senate Bill 182 caused one lobbyist, John Wagner of the Independent American Party, to question what lawmakers were doing. He noted it would cost $90 million to ...

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