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.
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.
