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  • Tourism Protests Keep New Luxor Governor Away in Egypt

    LUXOR A hardline Islamist appointed governor of Luxor stayed away from his new office on Wednesday as protesters barred access and demanded Egypt's president revoke a nomination they fear will hurt local tourism. Adel Mohamed al-Khayat, appointed by President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, is a member of al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, the movement accused of killing 58 foreign tourists ...

  • Ethics Commission calls hearing on complaints against Clark County School District officials

    A panel has found sufficient evidence to conduct a hearing into whether School Board President Carolyn Edwards, left, and Associate Superintendent Joyce Haldeman, right, used taxpayer resources to campaign for Question 2, the district's proposal to increase property ...

  • UPDATE 4-Actor James Gandolfini star of The Sopranos dies in Italy

    Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:54pm EDT (Adds actor's planned attendance at Sicily film festival, more reaction) By Piya Sinha-Roy and Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, June 19 (Reuters) - James Gandolfini, the burly actor best known for his Emmy-winning portrayal of a conflicted New Jersey mob boss in the groundbreaking cable TV series "The Sopranos," died on Wednesday vacationing in Italy. He was ...

  • Local woman finds creative outlet to cope with postwar life

    When Michelle Wilmot first returned from Iraq, she numbed herself with a steady diet of Cap'n Crunch cereal and Arby's. It wasn't the healthy outlet that art now provides for the Army veteran. The 31-year-old has amassed a portfolio of dozens of paintings, drawings and mixed-media pieces since she turned to art to deal with the feelings and frustrations left over from her military ...

  • Bipartisan agreement on border security near in Senate

    U.S. Border Patrol agent Jerry Conlin looks to the north near where the border wall ends as is separates Tijuana, Mexico, left, and San Diego, right. Illegal immigration into the United States would decrease by only 25 percent under a far-reaching Senate immigration bill, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office that also finds the measure reduces federal deficits by ...


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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

The unwieldiness of the title of Peter Weirs Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World owes to the fact that it takes its high-seas adventure yarn from two of Patricks OBrians popular series of books following the exploits of Capt. Jack Aubrey of the early 19th-century British Royal Navy. Embodied on screen by Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind), who has gained weight and grown o ... ...

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  • Dynasty Resort Hotel approved near Key Largo property

    Clark County commissioners on Wednesday unanimously approved an application for a 260-foot high hotel-casino located west of the burned out Key Largo hotel-casino. The project, called The Dynasty Resort Hotel, will be located on Flamingo Road east of the Tuscany and west of the Key Largo and Paradise Road. The 5.7-acre site is owned by Las Vegas Lucky Investment, LLC. The project will provide ...

  • Police seek help solving 1996 cold case

    Police are laying fresh eyes on decades-old unsolved homicide cases, thanks to recent advances in DNA technology. The fatal stabbing of Diane Hietbrink, 58, took place almost 17 years ago and has long since been labeled a cold case, said Keith Paul, a Henderson Police spokesman. However, her family never stopped looking for answers and police are stepping back in to help. On Sept. 25, 1996, ...

  • Judge defends sex offenders sentence

    District Judge Kathleen Delaney on Wednesday defended her decision to ignore a recommendation of probation for a repeat sex offender and sentence him to a maximum 16- to 40-year prison term, court papers show. And Delaney refuted an accusation that the sentence was influenced by her relationship with a television news reporter, who also interned for the judge while attending law school. In a ...

  • U.S. senators seek cost cuts for F-35 fighter jet

    WASHINGTON -- Senators sought cost-cutting opportunities Wednesday in the Pentagon's $400 billion program for the next-generation F-35, a fighter jet with a troubled testing record that military leaders said America couldn't afford not to build. Chairing the hearing, Sen. Dick Durbin lamented that the F-35 -- which is being tested at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas -- already has ...

  • Firm hired to promote Nevadas 150th anniversary celebration

    CARSON CITY -- The Glenn Group, a Nevada-based marketing firm, has been hired by the Nevada Sesquicentennial Planning Committee to promote the state's 150th anniversary celebration. "We are honored to have been selected to help carry out the governor's plan to promote the activities surrounding our state's 150th birthday," said B.C. LeDoux, president of the Glenn Group, ...

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