Prepaid debit cards growing in popularity

The emergence of new types of consumers and the acceptance of prepaid financial services post-recession are driving banks to enter the lucrative prepaid debit card industry, a business traditionally dominated by alternative financial services companies such as Green Dot Corp. and Western Union Co.

Fans’ indifference doesn’t dull U.S. women’s success

When they speak of those who display greatness, of a state of superiority and possessing qualities better than all others, they rarely include any mention of regret. People shouldn’t have to apologize for being so good.

WEEK IN REVIEW: Reporters’ notebook

As Judge James Bixler moved through his morning calendar early last week, he came across a familiar defendant’s name.

WEEK IN REVIEW: Top news

A 65-year-old man police are calling a possible serial killer was booked Tuesday into the county jail in connection with the deaths of two women found strangled in West Las Vegas 16 years apart.

Fears for missing sister renewed in slayings case

He was a man with a bad leg and a big smile, and Bobby Joe Jenkins didn’t think much about him when things went bad in the summer of 1999.

Property owner has will to stay in downtown Las Vegas

Las Vegas city officials have been willing to vacate street and park space, buy entire blocks and even move out of their own city hall in the name of reviving downtown. But they haven’t been able to move Russell Gullo.

Dummies shouldn’t shock anyone who drives in Las Vegas

Shocking. Outrageous. Entirely distasteful. These were the breathless reactions to the work of vandals who this week startled motorists by hanging dummies from nooses in an attempt to draw attention to Wall Street’s transgressions.

For runner, life in Sudan was survival of fittest

The distance between Sudan and Egypt is just over 1,000 miles, a journey that when followed by the path of the sun takes you along the River Nile past pyramids covered with sands of another time. It is excruciatingly hot. There is little vegetation. Just mile after mile of dunes and desert rock.

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