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With No Champagne or Celine, Vegas Casino Opens and Closes in 1 Day
By Steve Friess - AOL NewsLAS VEGAS -- The last time a casino opened around here, the champagne flowed freely, the women wore jewels, "Nightline" taped a segment and Brandon Flowers jammed in the lobby bar. This time, a guy named Walter Jones unlocked the door, then headed back to his car because the 6 a.m. desert air can be nippy and the fellow responsible for turning on the lights and heat hadn't shown up yet. A few hours into Jones' shift on Wednesday, nobody had shown up to play any of the 16 video poker slot machines inside the 20-by-20 tent erected on a plain of asphalt at the corner directly across from the ...
Conspiracy Theory: Why, Really, Did Nevada Remove Geocaches?
By Steve Friess - AOL NewsRACHEL, Nev. -- This lonely stretch of road in central Nevada draws conspiracy buffs from the world over who ponder such unknowables as whether aliens have landed on Earth and what the feds really do at nearby Area 51. But lately there's been another mystery among locals: Why did the Nevada Department of Transportation remove hundreds of little containers, gripping the Extraterrestrial Highway, that were a magnet for thousands who participate in a hobby known as geocaching? In the process, it seems, the NDOT has single-handedly shut down one of the only robust sources of tourism to come to ...
Obama's Deficit Plans Run Into Economic Reality
By not in system - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES -- President Barack Obama headed west to sell his big picture deficit-reduction plan. But many people are waiting for a quick fix to their own economic problems caused chiefly by persistent unemployment and the crippled housing market. Audiences in California and Nevada understood why it's important to get a handle on the deficit over the long term. Yet they made clear that the economic recovery hasn't fully taken hold in ways that are meaningful to them. As Obama shifts into re-election mode, he will need to show that he hasn't lost his focus on jobs even as the conversation in ...
King Trumps 5 as Card Flip Settles an Election Tie in North Las Vegas
By Steve Friess - AOL NewsLAS VEGAS -- The cards were unsealed, jokers removed. The deck was spread out on a green felt table for inspection. The man overseeing the proceedings even made an amateur flub, telling the women to draw cards a little too soon. After some laughter, the deck was shuffled and cut. The first woman drew a five of diamonds, the second a king of diamonds. The outcome was clear. Steve Friess Linda Meisenheimer drew a king of diamonds Thursday and won the right to be in a runoff election for the North Las Vegas City Council. A Vegas moment? Sure, except this evening's card game didn't ...
For Romney, 2012 Strategy Runs Through NH, Nevada
By not in system - AOL NewsLAS VEGAS - In his first presidential run in 2008, Mitt Romney sought back-to-back victories in Iowa and New Hampshire to propel him to GOP nomination. He won neither, the two-state sprint failed and so did his candidacy. This time his strategy is more of a multi-state marathon, with economically suffering Nevada an important round in what advisers predict could be a protracted fight to be the party's 2012 nominee. Olivier Douliery, Abaca Press / MCT Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is expected to enter the race for the GOP presidential nomination later the month. Here, he ...
States Hustle to Legalize Online Poker Despite Federal Roadblocks
By Steve Friess - AOL NewsLAS VEGAS -- First it was medicinal marijuana use. Then immigration reform. And now at least six states, most notably Nevada and California, are on the brink of taking action where they believe the federal government has failed -- legalizing Internet poker. Bills are percolating in legislatures across the country that would formally permit residents to play poker online within state boundaries, an effort to circumvent a 2006 federal law that crippled the fast-growing Web gambling industry. The bill most likely to be adopted first appears to be the one sponsored by Nevada Assemblyman William ...
Nevada's Sharron Angle Launches Run for U.S. House
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyRepublican Sharron Angle kicked off her campaign for one of Nevada's four U.S. House seats on Wednesday with a video of her at a kitchen table, announcing, "I am most concerned about the enormous debt that we're passing along to our children and grandchildren." Watch video here: Angle, a tea party superstar who lost by five percentage points to Democrat Harry Reid in a bid for his Senate seat last November, is a divisive figure in her own party. Here's how Politico characterized her entrance into the 2012 House race, under the headline, "GOP Braces for Angle's Encore Run": "She's back ...
Sharron Angle Jumps Into Nevada Congressional Race
By not in system - AOL NewsLAS VEGAS -- Nearly five months after her strong bid to unseat U.S. Sen. Harry Reid ended in defeat, Sharron Angle said Wednesday she'll run for Congress again in an effort to "stop the liberal agenda." Angle told supporters via YouTube, Twitter and an e-mail that she will pursue one of Nevada's four U.S. House seats in 2012. "With your help we can once again change the country's direction like we started in 2010," she wrote in an e-mail to supporters. Reid beat Angle by 6 percentage points in November after a bitter campaign. But she put up a strong fight, raising $14 million in one ...
US 'Heartland' Near Historic Shift From Midwest
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- America's population center is edging away from the Midwest, pulled by Hispanic growth in the Southwest, according to census figures. The historic shift is changing the nation's politics and even the traditional notion of the country's heartland -- long the symbol of mainstream American beliefs and culture. The West is now home to the four fastest-growing states -- Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Idaho -- and has surpassed the Midwest in population, according to 2010 figures. California and Texas added to the southwestern population tilt, making up more than one-fourth of the nation's ...
John Ensign Retiring: 3 Potential Candidates to Replace Him
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsToday Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., joined the growing list of federal legislators who won't seek re-election in 2012. Ensign is being investigated over his affair with Cynthia Hampton, his former campaign treasurer and the wife of his former deputy chief of staff Doug Hampton. The Senate Ethics Committee has appointed a special investigator in the probe, which is expected to continue into 2012. In a Las Vegas news conference this afternoon, Ensign said, "I just came to the conclusion that I couldn't put my family through" a re-election campaign. So now, in addition to wondering what will ...
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