Celtic Gathering is among springs festival offerings
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A competitor performs the sword dance during the 2012 Las Vegas Celtic Society's Celtic Gathering and Highland Games. This year's event is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs, 9200 Tule Springs ...
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Audit finds Las Vegas cab drivers overcharged tourists $15 million in 2012
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Clark County taxicab drivers taking tourists on the scenic route to and from the airport overcharged their passengers an estimated $14.8 million last year, according to a legislative audit released Monday. The report said the state Taxicab Authority needs to do more to prevent these roundabout rides, which are meant to run up the meter and accounted for 22.5 percent of the 2,730 airport trips ...
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Online poker is back Legal website launches in NV
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LAS VEGAS -; Poker devotees will soon be able to skip the smoky casino and legally gamble their dollars away on the couch - at least in the state of ...
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Shania Twain extends Las Vegas residency
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Country superstar Shania Twain is extending her reign as a Las Vegas headliner by adding 22 more shows to her residency. The singer kicked off her run at Caesars Palace in December and her Shania: Still the One shows have proved so popular, she has agreed to sign up for more dates. She tells The Associated Press, "I couldn't be any happier. It turned out so beautifully and I'm so ...
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New Las Vegas 51s owners plan to build finest Triple-A facility in the country
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Don Logan, left, executive vice president of the Las Vegas 51s, and investor Steve Mack leave a news conference at Cashman Field after a deal was finalized to buy the Las Vegas 51s on Monday, May 13, 2013. Summerlin Las Vegas Baseball Club LLC, a joint venture of the Howard Hughes Corp. and Play Ball Owners Group -- including investors Mack, Bart Wear and Chris Kaempfer -- purchased the 51s and ...
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A house for Mothers Day a viral video for Las Vegas son
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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, ...
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Scott Disick serenades Kourtney Kardashian during 30th birthday bash
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Scott Disick, who celebrated his 30th birthday with friends and loved ones at Bellagio's Hyde Nightclub in Las Vegas on Sunday, decided to snag the mike and take the stage for a few minutes. An eyewitness told Us magazine that Kourtney Kardashian's long-time love was spotted rapping at the deejay booth at one point in the night. The source said that it was tough to understand what he was saying ...
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Las Vegas should stick with its energy code
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letter to the editor . /inline-content --> If ever there was a case to call a proposed ordinance a rotten apple, that case is at hand with one on Wednesday's Las Vegas City Council agenda. The proposed ordinance, CLV 2013-24, would roll back the city's 2009 building energy codes for buildings constructed before 2009. Unfortunately, implementing such a bill would bring many unintended ...
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