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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 ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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 ...

  • A house for Mothers Day a viral video for Las Vegas son

    Michael Luangrath, 29, gave his mother, Dao Vahn, a longtime downtown Las Vegas business owner and cancer survivor, a $175,000 house for Mother’s Day. The mother and son are shown here in a photo illustration of her house in North Las Vegas on Thursday, May 16, ...

  • Budget burger challenge Which is the finest in Vegas

    best burgers in Las Vegas was a delicious and hunger-inducing look at the burger in its most refined and elaborate form. But what about more common burgers? The blue-collar ones from places with roadside signs? The ones you might be able to order at a drive-thru? We wanted to give those some love, too, so we asked sun.com staffers to suggest some of their favorite quick-stop burgers. Here are a ...

  • Football ticket sales at the top of UNLV interim athletic directors priorities

    Tina Kunzer-Murphy will be the interim athletic director at UNLV, it was announced Monday, May 20, 2013. Last year Kunzer-Murphy stepped down after a 12-year run as executive director of the Las Vegas ...

  • Charismatic Las Vegas mob lawyer mayor pens memoir

    A former mob lawyer, he promoted his city and himself with antics that lent credibility to his self-given title of "Happiest mayor in the ...

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