Cell phones can be double-edged tools

On the shoulder of Interstate 15, you spot a totaled car. You get closer. It looks like your best friend’s.

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HIRE CALLING: The economic recession continues to make job hunting hard; scores of unemployed locals will tell you so. Sadly for them, observers don’t expect hiring to improve much at all this year.

Las Vegas dealerships in doldrums

When Findlay Chevrolet opened in 2007, the barren stretch of desert there along the southern beltway between Jones and Rainbow boulevards looked poised to become another auto mall. General manager Justin Findlay envisioned it that way.

Edgar seizes Penn’s UFC title

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — In the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s first show in the Middle East and its first outdoors, heavy underdog Frankie Edgar won a unanimous decision over BJ Penn on Saturday to claim the lightweight title at UFC 112.

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flamingo road

Sierra ski resorts shutting down for season

RENO — Despite boasting an abundance of snow after a string of late-season storms, Sierra ski resorts are beginning to shut down for the season.

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Layoff notices began to go out last week to 204 city employees in North Las Vegas, the first of what could be a wave of firings by local government entities hit hard by shrinking revenue and state budget cuts.

Lowden leads Republican pack

Sue Lowden has established herself as the far-ahead GOP front-runner in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race and the Republican most likely to beat Sen. Harry Reid, even with a Tea Party candidate on the Nov. 2 general election ballot, according to a new poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Sold-out crowd enjoys a wild ride aboard AC/DC’s ‘rock and roll’ express

If chest hair could sing, it would probably sound a lot like the dude up on stage practically perspiring testosterone, his face contorted into a grimace suggestive of gastrointestinal distress. At a sold-out MGM Grand Garden on Friday night, Brian Johnson whinnied and wailed as if he was singing barefoot from atop a mound of broken glass.

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