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If spirit moves you, visit spookiest spots in Southern Nevada

Las Vegas can be a pretty scary place, and not just for the reasons — eerily hypnotic video poker machines, vanishing home values, those zombielike smut peddlers on the Strip — you’d imagine.

Mountain View notches football win over Needles

Matthew Larson and Trevor Van Kempen combined for 277 yards rushing and two touchdowns Saturday to help Mountain View’s football team to an 18-12 win over visiting Needles, Calif.

Hendrick cars pack Talladega front row

TALLADEGA, Ala. — For the first time since Dan Wheldon’s fatal accident, the focus was back on the racetrack.

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Coming In This Week’s Las Vegas Business Press

COVER STORY: From high-end Strip resorts to mobile food trucks, touch-screen technology in smartphones and tablet computers is making doing business as easy as flicking a finger.

Nevada has less than 2 percent of nation’s solar workers

These days, the Silver State looks more like the Algeria of solar power, with tons of resources but a relatively unimpressive economic impact to show for it.

Agency intends to use retardant on wildfires without harming species

The U.S. Forest Service has backed off claims about the effectiveness of the huge red plumes of fire retardant that big airplanes drop on wildfires, but the agency does not expect to cut back on using it.

Las Vegas woman charged in alleged magic show scam

GILLETTE, Wyo. — The wife of a Colorado man convicted of conning more than 100 Wyoming residents out of money he said would be used to send disabled children to a magic show has turned herself in.

Fresh & Easy markets recalling its bagged Washed Spinach

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market Inc. is recalling its f&e brand bagged Washed Spinach because it could be contaminated with listeria.

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