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UFC 145 live blog: Sold out crowd at Philips Arena ready for main card
April 21, 2012 – 7:00 pm | Comments Off
UFC 145 live blog: Sold out crowd at Philips Arena ready for main card

ATLANTA — By all measures, UFC 145 ranks as one of the most significant fight cards in the history of the Las Vegas-based promotion. Main event participants Jon Jones and Rashad Evans, the two fighters who face …

Watergate figure Charles Colson, 80, dies
April 21, 2012 – 3:00 pm | Comments Off
Watergate figure Charles Colson, 80, dies

Charles Colson, the tough-as-nails special counsel to President Richard Nixon who went to prison for his role in a Watergate-related case and became a Christian evangelical helping inmates, has died. He was 80.

From rock stage to slots, audio producer aims to improve the sounds of the casino
April 21, 2012 – 3:00 pm | Comments Off
From rock stage to slots, audio producer aims to improve the sounds of the casino

After switching gears to mix chart-topping dance hits and soundtracks for MTV and Nickelodeon television shows, Willie Wilcox landed in Las Vegas three years ago to begin yet another new gig — engineering musical licks for slot machines.

James Boyd’s move to defensive end highlights UNLV’s Spring Showcase
April 21, 2012 – 1:00 pm | Comments Off
James Boyd’s move to defensive end highlights UNLV’s Spring Showcase

The worst-kept secret of UNLV football’s spring schedule got out at the team’s Spring Showcase on Friday: Transfer James Boyd took off his yellow quarterback jersey and took his first reps at defensive end. And he looked pretty good…

A better way to spend millions
April 21, 2012 – 1:00 pm | Comments Off
A better way to spend millions

What’s with this zip line on the Strip?

Bon Breads, bakery to top-flight restaurants and casinos, keeps rising
April 21, 2012 – 11:00 am | Comments Off
Bon Breads, bakery to top-flight restaurants and casinos, keeps rising

Carlos Pereira talks about bread the way composers discuss symphonies and playwrights critique a show. Just like a concerto is more than simply notes on the page, Pereira knows a memorable loaf of bread is more than a good recipe

Police officers shoot and kill woman after car theft
April 21, 2012 – 11:00 am | Comments Off
Police officers shoot and kill woman after car theft

A woman was shot to death early Saturday morning while offficers were investigating a report of a stolen vehicle, Metro Police said.

Renewal of ‘Vegas Stripped’ up in air, but South Point reaping rewards of exposure
April 21, 2012 – 9:00 am | Comments Off
Renewal of ‘Vegas Stripped’ up in air, but South Point reaping rewards of exposure

Although South Point Casino’s time under the reality television spotlight has ended for now, the feel-good vibes and extra publicity it received during its starring role on the Travel Channel’s “Vegas Stripped” are still paying dividends.

What can be done with the city’s half-built corporate eyesores?
April 21, 2012 – 9:00 am | Comments Off
What can be done with the city’s half-built corporate eyesores?

Imagine if the guy who owned the house next door tore it down and started building a cool new palace. Then imagine that a third of the way into construction, he stopped…

Bus driver to test Bard’s theory that joy’s soul lies in the doing
April 21, 2012 – 7:00 am | Comments Off
Bus driver to test Bard’s theory that joy’s soul lies in the doing

To read, or not to read? That was the easy question bus driver Anthony Brady answered when he was asked to take part in a 24-hour reading in honor of William Shakespeare’s 448th birthday. “This is…

Speculators don’t affect oil prices
April 21, 2012 – 7:00 am | Comments Off
Speculators don’t affect oil prices

President Barack Obama recently announced plans to restrict speculation involving oil prices.

Survival of the fittest is GOP ideal
April 21, 2012 – 5:00 am | Comments Off
Survival of the fittest is GOP ideal

I doubt that most Americans want our country to become a Third World-type country with a few fabulously rich people in control and everyone else starving and dying in the streets without