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Atomic testing museum marks 5th anniversary

The Atomic Testing Museum of Las Vegas, Nevada, is celebrating its 5th anniversary this year. The museum has just received two artifacts from the World Trade Center for permanent display in the Smithsonian Institution affiliate.

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Teenage baseball phenom debuts for Las Vegas college team

Brye Harper, 17, has been declared off-limits by his new baseball coach at the College of Southern Nevada (CSN), where he will make his college debut tonight against Arizona Western at their Henderson, Nevada campus.

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Male prositute at las vegas brothel has first customers

A male prostitute, who works under the name of Markus,has had his first three female customers at the Shady Lady Ranch brothel, located 150 miles northwest of Las Vegas last Saturday.

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Las Vegas Gambler Helps Families By Winning For Them

There is a modern day Robin Hood living in Las Vegas, Nevada. He goes by the name of Robin Hood 702 (the area code for Las Vegas). The tale of Robin Hood is well known: stealing from the rich and providing to the poor. Meet Robin Hood 702, who does the same but with a Las Vegas twist.

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After Foreclosure, Nicolas Cage Vegas Home Sold

Actor Nicolas Cage has been in the midst of traumatic financial problems recently, but now at least one of the actor's homes, which had already undergone foreclosure, has been sold.

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Las Vegas Courthouse Shooting Over Lost Social Security Benefits

At 8 AM local time Monday morning, Johnny Lee Wicks, 66, opened fire with a shotgun at a security checkpoint at the Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse in Las Vegas, setting off a firefight with deputy U.S. marshals. He killed one officer, while himself also being killed in the Las Vegas courthouse shooting.

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Three Shot, Two Killed, in Las Vegas Courthouse

A deputy U.S. Marshal and a court security officer were shot and injured during an exchange of gunfire with a gunman at the Lloyd D. George Federal Building in downtown Las Vegas Monday morning. The gunman was reportedly shot and killed.

Two federal agents were shot Monday when a gunman opened fire in the lobby of a federal building in downtown Las Vegas, and the gunman was shot and killed, the FBI said.

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Audio of Jan. 4th Las Vegas Courthouse Shooting

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A man uploaded a video to YouTube that he claims contains the audio of the shooting in the Federal Courthouse in downtown Las Vegas on Monday. WARNING: Video contains graphic language.

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Las Vegas is going "green"

With neon lights blazing, air conditioners running 24/7, businesses that never close, and Broadway shows that probably use more lights in an hour than I use in a year, one would hardly equate Las Vegas with green technology. Nevertheless, there are businesses, being led by the giant casinos, that are incorporating some "green" technology into their business models.

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Garth Brooks back for 5 year stint in Las Vegas

Garth Brooks is coming back to the stage and out of retirement on December 11, 2009. He will be performing in Las Vegas for the next five years at Wynn Las Vegas. Country music fans are more than thrilled to learn that Garth Brooks will be the headline performer at Wynn Las Vegas for 15 weeks a year through 2014.

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Danny Gans, Vegas "Institution," Dies

Danny Gans, pretty much unknown outside of Las Vegas, but a megastar in "Sin City," has died at the age of 52.

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Casino Moguls Steve, Elaine Wynn to Divorce

Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn is divorcing his wife Elaine after more than four decades of marriage.

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