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  • Coroner IDs woman 75 found dead in northwest valley

    A 75-year-old woman who was found dead in her home in the northwest part of the valley Tuesday has been identified. Jean Main died from a gunshot wound to the head, according to the Clark County coroner's office said Thursday. She was found in her home in the 8000 block of Green Pasture Avenue near Cimarron and Lone Mountain roads. No suspects have been named, and Las Vegas police homicide ...

  • Modified film tax incentive bill advance in Nevada Senate committee

    CARSON CITY -- A bill that would offer tax credits to companies that film in Nevada won approval Thursday from a Senate committee, but it was amended to make it a four-year pilot program and limit the incentives to $20 million per year. Senate Bill 165, sponsored by Sen. Aaron Ford, D-Las Vegas, would offer a variety of credits, including for employee salaries and benefits. It originally ...

  • Paiute environmental activist Calvin Meyers dies at age 57

    Friends remember Calvin Meyers as an environmental activist and public speaker against plans by the Department of Energy to haul nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain and the Nevada Test Site. The former chairman of the Moapa Band of Paiutes died May 15 of complications from a stroke he suffered last year. He was 57. He was buried Saturday in the Moapa Indian Cemetery following a traditional service. ...

  • Clark County to open eight pools for the season on Saturday

    Eight Clark County public pools and water parks will open Saturday to kick off the start of summer and also help families in need. Donations of new swimsuits for children of all ages will be exchanged for free water bottles commemorating the 50th anniversary of the county's Parks and Recreation Department. "Donating a swimsuit to a child in need is a great way to get the summer off to ...

  • Chorizo blamed for food poisoning at Las Vegas restaurant

    Health officials say they traced a salmonella outbreak that sickened nearly 300 people to cooked chorizo sausage served at a Las Vegas restaurant. A report released Wednesday by the Southern Nevada Health District said the salmonella contamination likely occurred at the Firefly Tapas Kitchen & Bar, not where the sausage was produced, the Las Vegas Sun reported. "[There is] a small ...


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Movie Review

The Two of Us (Le vieil homme et l'enfant) [DVD]

The Two of Us (Le vieil homme et l'enfant) [DVD]

The beauty of Claude Berri's debut film, The Two of Us (Le vieil homme et l'enfant), is that it doesn't serve up an obvious lesson at the end. It is a sweet, unadorned story about love and bigotry, and were it to be remade in Hollywood (God forbid), it would surely end with o ... ...

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  • For Philadelphia bicyclist a cat is his co-pilot

    Bicyclist Rudi Saldia and his cat Mary Jane pose for a portrait during an interview with the Associated Press in Philadelphia. Saldia often buzzes around Philadelphia with his year-old feline Mary Jane perched on his shoulder. Their urban adventures have turned heads on the street and garnered big hits on ...

  • Bill to allow medical marijuana dispensaries in Nevada clears key Senate panel

    CARSON CITY -- Nevada's 3,400 medical marijuana patients could buy their medication through licensed, state-regulated dispensaries under a bill that won unanimous support Thursday from the Senate Finance Committee. Sen. Ben Kieckhefer, R-Reno, said he was concerned that additional amendments are anticipated but won't be addressed by the Senate before the bill goes to the Assembly. But ...

  • Juror kicked out of Whittemore campaign contribution trial in Reno

    A federal judge in Reno Thursday temporarily halted the trial of Harvey Whittemore, shown here in April in Las Vegas, after being told that a juror may have made an inflammatory comment about the ...

  • U.S. new home sales up 2.3 percent in April

    Eric Wennerberg, left, and his sister Emily talk with their friend John Siemer as they tour a model home in April in the Coronado Ranch subdivision in Las Vegas. U.S. new-home sales rose in April to the second highest level since ...

  • Las Vegas Housing Crisis Seems to Be Subsiding

    Las Vegas' underwater mortgage woes keep showing signs of improvement -- but also remain worst in the country. Some 54.3 percent of valley homeowners with mortgages were underwater -- meaning their debt outweighed their home's value -- in the quarter ending March 31, according to a report out Wednesday from Zillow, a Seattle-based research firm. The local rate was more than ...

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