MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Mark Twain wrote that “the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter.” A new edition of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” will try to find out if that holds true by replacing the N-word with “slave” in an effort not to offend readers. Twain scholar Alan Gribben said the N-word appears 219 times in “Huck Finn” and four times in “Tom Sawyer.”
TORONTO — A pilot’s spilled coffee accidentally triggered a hijacking alert and caused a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany, to make an unscheduled stop in Canada.
PHOENIX — At least two people are waking up to find themselves millions of dollars richer. The holders of a ticket sold in Idaho and another in Washington state will be sharing Mega Millions’ $355 million jackpot from Tuesday night’s drawing. The prize is the fourth-largest in U.S. history and the second-largest in Mega Millions’ history. The two winners will each get $177.5 million. Besides the jackpot, prizes range from $2 to $250,000.
Bombay Indian Cuisine, 3049 Las Vegas Blvd. South, received 28 demerits Dec. 21. Violations included storing open bags of food in dry storage area. GRADE: C.
In the glass: Spiral Wines Cabernet Sauvignon is a deeply opaque blood-ruby red color with a blackish core going out into a fine purplish-crimson red to light fuchsia rim definition with medium viscosity.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Ohio State is still undefeated, even though the Buckeyes aren’t playing defense as they will need to if they want to keep winning in the Big Ten.
FALLON — A landmark tree filled with dangling shoes, boots and sneakers that served as a popular stopping point for travelers in Northern Nevada was chopped down by vandals, leaving merchants concerned that business would suffer in the isolated area.
Boulder City officials made it clear last week they are less than thrilled that the O’Callaghan-Tillman Memorial Bridge opened without the widening of U.S. Highway 93 approach to the span. Boulder City Mayor Roger Tobler has requested that truckers be diverted through Laughlin until the problem is resolved. We’ll kick off today with a couple of bottleneck-related questions.
Welcome to Jolly Olde Henderson, love! You know the place before setting your trainers inside: fish and chips in the fryer, lager signs on the walls, football on the telly with no one calling it soccer.
If ever there was a time to get out that underused slow cooker you’ve packed away, it’s now. It’s a particularly effective and convenient way to prepare soups, stews and braised meats.
Despite a slowdown in bankruptcy filings around the country in 2010, some local attorneys are predicting that Nevada filings will continue to rise in 2011.
