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Man guilty of letting daughter watch porn

A Gardnerville man has admitted that he didn’t stop his 8-year-old daughter from viewing pornographic movies he was watching on his computer.

Mission: Kill Lake Tahoe clams

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Scuba-diving scientists are unrolling long rubber mats across the bottom of Lake Tahoe coves in an attempt to quell a clam invasion that could cloud the world-reknown cobalt waters.

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Quirky Cal-Nev-Ari for sale from the ground up for $17 million

Cal-Nev-Ari, population 354, is a town about 70 miles south of Las Vegas on U.S. Highway 95. Nancy Kidwell owns much of the town, including a casino, an RV park and hundreds of empty acres. She has put it all up for sale. The price: $17 million.

‘Chairman’ stops Rat Pack fracas

A Frank Sinatra impersonator played peacemaker during a backstage “Rat Pack” brawl at the Sahara last week, after Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin impersonators took whacks at each other.

Activists keep Nev. horses from going to slaughter

RENO — With the financial backing of a California winery owner, activists on Saturday purchased almost all 174 horses up for sale at a state-sanctioned auction in Nevada to keep the horses from going to the slaughterhouse.

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A Pahrump strip club was robbed July 3 BY A GUNMAN with either an ironic wardrobe or a burning desire to teach his victims a lesson.

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Family remembers worker as officials close files on fatal fall

“Drive safe,” were the last words Marychris Rodriguez ever spoke to Vicente, her 20-year-old son. That was as he headed to a one-night stage job on the Strip to help “load out” the Tom Jones show, which had finished its run at a local hotel. Vicente never returned.

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President Barack Obama jetted into Las Vegas last week for a pair of stump speeches to raise campaign cash and stir supporters for fellow Democrat Sen. Harry Reid, who faces a tough race against Republican Sharron Angle.