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  • Ghost towns provide glimpse of states boom-and-bust past

    Nevada's rural landscape is punctuated with ghost towns -- communities built on the promise of mining riches, and then discarded when the dream either died or never quite became reality. The names of many Nevada ghost towns -- Goldfield, Midas, Silver Peak and Goldpoint -- attest to the aspirations of those dreamers who hoped they had stumbled upon the next Comstock Lode. In some cases, the ...

  • Las Vegas still leads nation in underwater homeowners but crisis seems to be subsiding

    A vacant HUD home is shown in North Las Vegas April 2, 2013. A neighbor said that it has been vacant for a bout two years. (1524 Gaber Court, North Las ...

  • Rape Crisis Center welcomes 14 volunteers at grand opening

    Volunteer advocacy training graduate Brenda Carter receives her diploma from Daniele Dreitzer, right, executive director of the Rape Crisis Center during an open house Wednesday at the center in Las Vegas. Carter, 53, was raped when she was ...

  • Protesters at Las Vegas tech show take aim at Mexican billionaires corrupt practices

    Jessica Padron, left, and members of Two Countries One Voice protest against Carlos Slim, a Mexican businessman listed as the second richest man in the world by Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, in front of the Venetian Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The group accuses Slim’s telecommunication companies of engaging in predatory and monopolistic practices. The protest coincides with CTIA, a ...

  • Jurors return guilty verdicts in capital case involving 2010 crime spree

    Family members of victim Prisma Contreras, from left, cousin Gabby Luna, sister Denise Espitia, and mother Josefine Contreras, react during the reading of the guilty verdicts against defendant Gregory Hover in courtroom 3E at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas on ...


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Movie Review

Paper Moon [DVD]

Paper Moon [DVD]

Tatum ONeal was nine years old and had never acted in her life when she played one of the lead roles in Peter Bogdanovichs Paper Moon opposite her father, then superstar Ryan ONeal, and became the (still) youngest person to ever win an Oscar. Some have seen her victory as a sentimental fluke, but watching Paper Moon, its impossible to deny the power and subtlety of her performance a ... ...

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  • Slugger Jose Canseco accused of Vegas sexual assault

    (1 hr 4 mins ago) Slugger Jose Canseco accused of Vegas sexual assault Former baseball slugger Jose Canseco Jr has been accused of sexual assault in Las Vegas, in an investigation he made public with postings on a social media website claiming that a woman falsely accused him of rape. No arrest was made and police said no charges were immediately filed against the 48-year-old former Oakland ...

  • Wedding Chapel Celebrates 70 Years in Las Vegas

    LAS VEGAS -- After more than eight years of delays, a sex offender who worked as a nurse is going to prison for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old patient. The nursing board gave Paul Santiago a ...

  • Former Las Vegas youth soccer coach sentenced in rape of teen

    A former youth soccer coach who was accused of raping a team member has been sentenced to at least 23 years in prison. Court records show that Marvin Geovanny Juarez, who coached the Atleticos Club Las Vegas soccer team, pleaded guilty in March to attempted sexual assault of a minor, lewdness with a child, and use of a minor in the production of pornography. On Monday, District Judge Kathleen ...

  • Not a good alfalfa farming year for Nevadas Sen. Heller

    WASHINGTON -- It was a down year for the alfalfa farm owned in Nevada by Sen. Dean Heller. Heller reported $13,545 in hay sales off the family property in Smith Valley in 2012, a drop from $34,110 the year before. A financial disclosure report the Nevada Republican filed with the U.S. Senate this month suggested in a notation the "Heller Hay Farm" had a loss for 2012. The ...

  • Salmonella creates complications hard choices for pregnant Las Vegan

    Lyudmyla Radchenko is seen in a recent undated photo. Radchenko, who is nearly nine months pregnant, became ill with salmonella after eating at the Firefly on Paradise restaurant. Her pregnancy limits options for treatment and a C-section has been scheduled in the hopes of minimizing the baby's exposure to the ...

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