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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 ...

  • Police closing missing Utah womans case

    This evidence photo released Monday by the West Valley City Police Department shows a journal collected from Josh and Susan Powell's house. Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother whose now-dead husband was a prime ...

  • Attorneys appointed for two Las Vegas men jailed in iPad killing

    Two men will remain jailed without bail pending another court appearance in the death of a teenage boy who police say fell beneath the wheels of their vehicle when he refused to give up his iPad. A judge on Tuesday appointed attorneys to represent 21-year-old Michael Samuel Solid and 18-year-old Jacob "Jake" Dismont. Another hearing was set Thursday to consider bail amounts and pick a ...

  • Clark County approves $1.2 billion 2014 budget

    Clark County commissioners Monday approved a $1.2 billion budget for the next fiscal year that reflects a cautious outlook in response to the local economy's slow climb out of the recession. The budget isn't marked by the steep cuts made in the years immediately following the economic collapse in 2008. Nor does it have a rosy outlook with revenue growing rapidly. Instead, there's ...

  • Nevada freeway message signs used to urge driver caution

    Driver's will get a grim reminder of the dangers of unsafe driving starting 6 a.m. Wednesday as they traverse Las Vegas freeways. The digital message signs that now state travel times will also display statewide traffic death numbers. They also will have safe driving tips, including reminders to wear a seat belt and never drive while impaired, according to the Nevada Department of ...


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Movie Review

Far From Heaven

Far From Heaven

In the visually stunning and emotionally stirring Far From Heaven, writer/director Todd Haynes channels the resplendent 50s cinema of Douglas Sirk into a melodramatic masterpiece. Haynes, an innovative independent filmmaker who has worked on the fringes of Hollywood for the past decade, has truly found his voice here, using the visual motifs and thematic interests of one of the great Holly ... ...

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  • 2 donkeys suspected in mauling death in Hungary

    BUDAPEST, Hungary -; Hungarian police say they are investigating an incident in which an elderly man may have been mauled to death by two ...

  • Las Vegas casino hosts fundraiser for California senator on eve of key vote

    Senate President Pro Temp Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento speaks with Senator Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens during session in the Senate chambers in Sacramento, Calif. on Monday, March 11, ...

  • Guilty fraud plea in $5.6M Vegas embezzlement

    LAS VEGAS -- A Las Vegas man has pleaded guilty to fraud charges in connection with the embezzlement of $5.6 million from the prominent builder of residential high-rises in the Vegas area over nearly five years.U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden says Rocco Lazazzaro pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud at the Florida-based Turnberry Associates.He says Lazazzaro personally was ...

  • Driving You Crazy Long Traffic Light Near UNLV

    A UNLV student says the traffic light at Wilbur Street and Tropicana Avenue fails to turn green. She says students often run the red light just to make it to class on time. Traffic8 was able to get this light fixed months ago, so students could enjoy an easier drive through the spring semester. The green "left turn only" arrow controlling Tropicana traffic, including at Wilbur, was ...

  • Folksy Simpson tried to change the subject in bid for new trial

    A notorious former football star brings a liquored-up posse, two members of which are armed, to a Palace Station hotel room to forcibly retrieve a few boxes of sports memorabilia. What could possibly go wrong? We know the answer to that, but O.J. Simpson and his trio of attorneys spent the past week trying their best to change the subject as they fought to win a new trial on the grounds he ...

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