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Former Review-Journal journalist enjoyed wild ride

It was July 19, 1966, and the national media were horse-laughing at Don Digilio, managing editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Quoting the famous “reliable source,” Digilio had reported on his front page that “Singer/actor Frank Sinatra and his youthful sweetheart, Mia Farrow, will be married at the Sands Hotel today at 5:30 p.m.”

Jason Scott was magical to end

Minutes into Friday’s memorial for mentalist Jason Scott on the deck at the Palms’ ghostbar, a shooting star blazed over the Strip.

Lives go on here and there

Baker Jaime Lopez loves his life in Las Vegas, where he has lived for more than two decades and has built a successful business.

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An off-duty Nevada Highway Patrol sergeant who caused a June 11 crash that killed a Las Vegas woman was arrested and charged with felony driving under the influence.

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Speculating, drilling leases debated

WASHINGTON — As gasoline prices continued to rise last week, both the House and Senate talked about solutions but didn’t deliver any relief because of partisan bickering.

ECONOMY STRIKING OUR FANCY

We already know about the foreclosure crisis. And the credit crisis, the value-of-the-dollar crisis and, of course, the gasoline prices crisis.

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Complaint filed against Gibbons

Democrats submitted an ethics complaint against Gov. Jim Gibbons on Saturday, charging that the governor abused his position to get a discount on his property taxes for a piece of land in rural Nevada.

State jobless rate grows

CARSON CITY — Evidence of Nevada’s economic woes continued Friday with the release of June unemployment data showing a two-tenths of a percentage point jump in the jobless rate, to 6.4 percent, a state agency reported.

Fugitive biker surrenders

After six years and several court proceedings, the criminal cases against members of two motorcycle gangs who engaged in a deadly gunbattle at the Laughlin River Run was seemingly put to rest.

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