Sahara liquidation sale continues to the bare bones

A little piece of Las Vegas died Thursday. Its corpse smelled like an old tuxedo — an old, wet tuxedo that had been left at the bottom of a pile of clothes at the back of the closet for decades to molder, sucked of whatever life it used to have by cigarette smoke.

Las Vegas mother gets prison after death of son

Amber Scott said Thursday that she made the “poorest decision ever” not leaving her boyfriend before he killed her 4-year-old son in 2007 and staged a car accident to cover up the death.

Intoxicated men take dead alligator off-roading

HOWELL, Mich. — Authorities say three intoxicated men stole a 14-foot flattened and preserved alligator, strapped it to a pickup truck and took it off-roading.

Missing Arkansas dog found after seven years

ROGERS, Ark. — A dog that went missing seven years ago in northwest Arkansas soon will be reunited with her original owner after living under a pseudonym for all that time with another family in the same town.

Las Vegas police reveal DNA error put wrong man in prison

On Jan. 28, 2008, Howard Dupree Grissom walked into High Desert State Prison, just north of Las Vegas, after being convicted of robbery and conspiracy to commit a violent crime.

News of the World shutting down amid scandal

LONDON — News International announced Thursday it is shutting down the News of the World, the best-selling tabloid at the center of Britain’s phone hacking scandal.

Rast captures Poker Players Championship

It wasn’t about an unheralded gambler winning the World Series of Poker event the game’s true professionals all desire, but that Phil Hellmuth Jr. fell so tantalizing short.

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