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Las Vegas lags in startup business growth, report says

A lot of new companies are getting started in Las Vegas, but they lag in how much and how fast they grow when compared to other metropolitan areas, a new study finds.

They lived long lives together, died together in wildfires

The vast majority of the 42 people killed in the wildfires that have ravaged Northern California were in their 70s and 80s. Several were couples who died together, including childhood sweethearts who had grown old together.

Celebrity auction includes Elvis’s pink Cadillac, boyhood home

Want some Elvis memorabilia? Howabout the Army uniform that Tom Hanks wore while filming “Forrest Gump?” It’s in the sale. What about Whitney Houston’s see-through, acrylic piano or the umbrella with a parrot-shaped handle that Julie Andrews carried in “Mary Poppins?” Or Hugh Hefner’s 1973 BMW, purchased with Playboy profits, presumably?

Barack Obama searching for identity in letters written to ex

A young Barack Obama questioned his place in the world and his racial identity, agonized over whether he’d make enough money as a community organizer, and lamented his incompatibility with his ex-girlfriend in 30 pages of letters he wrote to her that are now being archived by Emory University in Atlanta.

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