In Louisiana, the wife of a former soldier is scaling back on Facebook posts and considering unfriending old acquaintances, worried an innocuous joke or long-lost associate might one day land her in a government probe. In California, a college student encrypts chats and emails, saying he's not planning anything sinister …
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LAS VEGAS - Screaming "They're going to take us down!" a JetBlue pilot stormed through his plane rambling about a bomb and threats from Iraq Tuesday until passengers on the Las Vegas-bound flight tackled him to the ground just outside the cockpit, passengers said.
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LAS VEGAS — The MAACO Bowl in Las Vegas wasn’t the send-off No. 8 Boise State originally imagined for Kellen Moore, college football’s winningest quarterback.
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LAS VEGAS - Even without Jerry Lewis, the Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon posted its best gain since the recession started, though the program's longtime host was on the minds of many during the 46th annual fundraiser.
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LAS VEGAS - A new poker league hoping to become card sharks' equivalent of professional tennis or golf has a television deal with CBS, with seven hours of network programming planned for the league's inaugural year.
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LAS VEGAS - The changing Western Athletic Conference wants enough schools to have two divisions and an annual title game, and is looking to boost membership by selling programs on geographic convenience and the chance to be college football's next Boise State.
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LAS VEGAS - Owners of the closed Sahara hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip plan to donate one of the property's iconic signs to the Neon Museum, a collection of Sin City's most well-known historic markers.
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LAS VEGAS - U.S. Rep. Joe Barton introduced a bill Friday to legalize online poker, hoping to pull the estimated $6 billion industry out of the shadows at a time when its top operators face serious legal troubles.
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LAS VEGAS - The Sahara Hotel & Casino, among a few Las Vegas Strip resorts left from the Rat Pack era, is closing nearly six decades after dealing its first hand.
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LAS VEGAS - A 17-year-old from Nebraska is the youngest winner of the Miss America crown since 1921 after beating 52 young women from across the United States.
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LAS VEGAS - Actor Tony Curtis was buried Monday with a melange of his favorite possessions - a Stetson hat, an Armani scarf, driving gloves, an iPhone and a copy of his favorite novel, "Anthony Adverse," a book that inspired his celebrity name and launched a robust film career that …
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LAS VEGAS - Casino-resort developer Las Vegas Sands Corp. may still be based in Las Vegas - running Sin City's quintessential business under the town's richest CEO - but it is thinking of dropping Las Vegas from its name.
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LAS VEGAS - From flags to Facebook, 22-year-old Jimena Navarrete has quickly made it clear what she plans to promote as the world's newest Miss Universe - her home country of Mexico.
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LAS VEGAS - Workers on Thursday demolished the tower of the first racially integrated casino in Las Vegas, one day after city officials turned down an appeal of its owners' demolition permit.
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LAS VEGAS - Las Vegas has been picked as next year's site for an international tourism summit expected to attract government and industry leaders from around the world.
