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Travel officials optimistic about summer season
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge has a new ride that park namesake Dolly Parton is “plain scared” to ride. In Nashville, famed for records and […]
Nev. Supreme Court won’t hear OJ Simpson appeal
LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson’s lawyer won’t get a chance to plead for the imprisoned former football star’s freedom before the full seven-member Nevada Supreme Court. The state’s highest court […]
Melody Simmons’ real estate notebook
Maryland’s real estate community is already gussying up for the party of the year on May 23 — in Las Vegas. At least 800 are expected to show up at […]
Lawyer: Web poker indictments not anti-gambling
LAS VEGAS — Federal indictments targeting top executives of three top online poker companies aren’t attacks against Internet gambling itself, a defense lawyer known for handling complex financial and corporate […]
Baltimore-based blind group sues Vegas airport over ticket kiosks
LAS VEGAS— The National Federation of the Blind is suing McCarran International Airport, alleging that the Las Vegas transportation hub has refused to make its ticket kiosks accessible to the […]
Sahara hotel-casino in Las Vegas closing in May
LAS VEGAS — The Sahara Hotel & Casino, among a few Las Vegas Strip resorts left from the Rat Pack era, is closing nearly six decades after dealing its first […]
Vegas-based airline wants to let you gamble on fares
If Allegiant Air gets its way, you might be able to purchase a ticket where the final cost would rise and fall with the price of jet fuel. For the […]
Verizon, iPhone deal may be poorly timed
Verizon Wireless would seem to be a big winner after its announcement Tuesday that it will start selling the iPhone and break Apple Inc.’s monogamous relationship with AT&T Inc. in […]
Manufacturers betting tablets will take off
LAS VEGAS — Big tablets and small tablets, white ones and black ones. Cheap ones and expensive ones. Brand names famous and obscure at the starting line of a race […]
Verizon reveals first ‘4G’ wireless tablet, phone
LAS VEGAS — The first gadgets with built-in access to Verizon Wireless’ new, high-speed wireless data network are a smart phone and a tablet from Motorola Mobility Inc., both designed […]
TV makers to put out 3-D sets with cheaper glasses
LAS VEGAS — TV makers believe they could blame disappointing sales of 3-D TVs last year partly on the bulky glasses they came with. They’re trying to tackle that this […]
Chipmakers improve an old silicon workhorse
Semiconductor companies are whipping up a new generation of chips to bring richer video and better battery life to personal computers and help them hold off threats from tablets and […]
