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Stars honor Veloso as Latin Grammys person of year
Juanes, Juan Luis Guerra, Nelly Furtado and Natalie Cole are among the artists who celebrated Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso at a ceremony honoring ...
Top Republicans say Romney didn't offer specifics
Top Republicans meeting for the first time since Election Day say the party failed to unseat President Barack Obama because nominee Mitt Romney did ...
With pot legal, police worry about road safety
It's settled. Pot, at least certain amounts of it, will soon be legal under state laws in Washington and Colorado. Now, officials in both states are ...
Shania Twain makes horseback arrival for Vegas gig
Country music star Shania Twain arrived on horseback Wednesday for a two-year headline gig at Caesars Palace, parading up the Las Vegas Strip with a ...
Nation pays tribute to sacrifices of veterans
From sea to shining sea, the nation paid tribute to its members of the armed services Sunday, both with somber traditions such as a Virginia ...
Condom conundrum: Porn industry ponders latex law
The show must go on, is the entertainer's credo, and it did just that in the nation's Porn Capital even after Los Angeles County voted to require ...
Juvenile In Justice: Jailed youths photo exhibit
One picture shows a 12-year-old boy in a yellow jump suit staring at the wall of a tiny, windowless cell at a Mississippi detention center.
Controversial Guns N' Roses promo being modified
A Las Vegas resort criticized for a suggestive ad campaign promoting Guns N' Roses shows is apologizing for the flap and changing the artwork. Ads for ...
Obama seems to have early vote lead in key states
President Barack Obama heads toward Election Day with an apparent lead over Republican Mitt Romney among early voters in key states that could decide ...
Obama's closing case to voters recalls the past
President Barack Obama has spent months urging Americans to move forward. Now he's asking them to look back. Back to the last Democratic president, ...
Billionaires, shadowy groups fuel pricey election
Billionaires, anonymous donors and shadowy outside groups funneled enormous amounts of money into this year's federal elections, as the cost of the ...
Graphic Guns N' Roses Vegas poster draws criticism
A county commissioner in Las Vegas says she regrets the board temporarily renamed a street in honor of Guns N' Roses after finding out about the ...
Few housing solutions offered in presidential race
This suburb in a battleground state is pockmarked with half-built subdivisions, foreclosed homes and voters like Leslie Levin. Levin, who retired from ...
Money men: Who are top 5 donors to Romney?
Republicans hit the jackpot with casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. Worth an estimated $25 billion, Adelson has donated $44.2 million so far to aid ...
Final 3 set at WSOP, to play for $8.53M crown
Two poker professionals and a college student have topped nearly 6,600 competitors at the World Series of Poker and are one card session away from ...
Nevada town named state's 'most bearded community'
Virginia City has emerged as Nevada's "most bearded community" following a weekend contest. The Nevada Appeal reports (http://bit.ly/Rpg7ni) Virginia ...
Vicious Nevada Senate contest nears uncertain end
The TV ads thrum back-to-back, hour after hour: Republican Sen. Dean Heller wants taxpayers to subsidize oil companies. Democratic Rep.
Advantage Obama in hunt for 270 electoral votes
President Barack Obama is poised to eke out a victory in the race for the 270 electoral votes needed to win re-election, having beaten back Republican ...
Obama hopes Nevada turnout team trumps bad economy
It's people like Paul Prekop who make Nevada a maddeningly difficult state for President Barack Obama to lock down, and who give Republican Mitt ...
Momentum vs. math in election's final full week
One final jobs report before Election Day and the big storm threatening the East Coast loom large as President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney ...
Sen. Reid leaves hospital after Vegas car crash
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was discharged from the hospital less than three hours after an apparent rear-end crash Friday afternoon on a Las ...
All day, all night: Obama's long search for votes
Deep in the longest day of his campaign, President Barack Obama was in a Las Vegas casino, gambling that his re-election bid needed one more stop.
Katy Perry wears her ballot at Obama rally
Katy Perry's doing her best get-out-the vote effort: At a rally for President Barack Obama, she wore a tight white dress imprinted like a ballot, and ...
Obama talks 2nd term; Romney zeroes in on economy
President Barack Obama is confidently predicting speedy second-term agreement with Republicans to reduce federal deficits and overhaul immigration ...
Obama lobbies casino workers in late-night pitch
President Barack Obama has wrapped up a long day of campaigning with a brief speech to hotel workers at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas. Obama told ...