Rossi Ralenkotter, chief executive officer of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, will miss next week’s board meeting due to undisclosed medical reasons.
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.