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Friday, January 30, 2004 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal HISTORIC CASINO: Castaways closes About 800 employees out of work at property formerly known as Showboat By JEFF SIMPSON GAMING WIRE The sun sets Thursday on the Castaways. The Fremont Street hotel closed Thursday afternoon after creditor Vestin Mortgage, acting under authority of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court order, entered the casino to collect its collateral backing a mortgage loan. Photo by Jeff Scheid. Castaways employees embrace Thursday in front of the valet parking area at the hotel after it was forced to close its doors. Photo by Jeff Scheid. The Showboat...

A nice Editorial Return To Index Post Reply Posted by: BooBoo - 9/25/2003 (6:11 p.m.) We rarely get a chance to see another country's editorial about the USA. Read this excerpt from a Romanian Newspaper. The article was written by Mr. Cornel Nistorescu and published under the title "C"ntarea Americii" meaning "Ode To America") on September 24, 2002 in the Romanian newspaper Evenimentulzilei ("The Daily Event" or "News of the Day"). ~An Ode to America~ Why are Americans so united? They would not resemble one another even if you painted them all one color! They speak all the languages of...

CONSTRUCTION BLAZE: FIRE GUTS COMPLEX No one injured in blaze that destroyed 350 luxury units in southeast valley By RICHARD LAKE REVIEW-JOURNAL A four-alarm fire rages in the southeast valley late Thursday, destroying hundreds of apartment units that were under construction. No one was injured in the blaze. Photo by K.M. Cannon. Las Vegas police try to control traffic at Boulder Highway and Russell Road as a four-alarm fire burns behind them. The massive blaze snarled traffic in the area for hours. Photo by K.M. Cannon. Click image for enlargement. Clark County Fire Department spokesman Bob Leinbach, who has been...

I would be interested to see if any Freepers have read the book " The Purpose Driven Life". If you would post your replys on here, or contace me at my site I would appreciate it very much...

This article is about Jim Hurst and his lumber mill in Eureka Montana. Jim Hurst was one of the leaders in the fight to re-open the Forest road in North Nevada// Laid off Owens & Hurst lumber mill worker Jim Robocker walks to his vehicles after the end of his shift Thursday at the Eureka mill. The mill laid off 40 workers Thursday due to the loss of it's timber supply. Robin Loznak/ Daily Inter Lake Jim Hurst broke the news at a company lunch Thursday: the Owens & Hurst lumber mill would close at the end of the day,...

Strom Thurmond Dead at 100 Thursday, June 26, 2003 By James Di Liberto Jr. Former South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond (search), the nation's longest-serving senator and former "Dixiecrat" (search) candidate for the presidency, died Thursday in Edgefield, S.C. He was 100. Thurmond died at 9:45 p.m. after being in poor health in recent weeks, said his older son, Strom Thurmond Jr. Thurmond, born Dec. 5, 1902, had been living in a newly renovated wing of a hospital in his hometown of Edgefield (search) since he returned to the state from Washington in early 2003. "Surrounded by family, my father was...

Email this story Thursday, June 12, 2003 Hillary's book not a big hit in Great Falls By CAROL BRADLEY Tribune Staff Writer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About 50 feet from where Helena resident Prudence Wigen is sitting at the Barnes and Noble store in Great Falls is a can't-miss-it display of the hottest new book on the market: Hillary Clinton's "Living History." Five hundred and sixty-two pages of confessions from the former first lady about Bill and Monica, Whitewater, the vast right-wing conspiracy. Moreover, it's already discounted -- 30 percent off the $28 publisher's price. What on earth is Wigen waiting for? She's...

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. . . . Wednesday, April 16, 2003 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal TRAFFIC RAMPAGE: Dad killed, son hurt Man charged with DUI, hit and run after four crashes By FRANK CURRERI and MICHAEL SQUIRES REVIEW-JOURNAL Photos by John Locher. A tarp covers the body of Chris Holt, 44, who was struck while bicycling with his son Tuesday. Police said the driver of the pickup that struck Holt traveled about a mile before dumping the body on Mustang Street, just off Cheyenne Avenue. Damage is apparent on a 1988 Chevrolet pickup that police say was involved in several accidents Tuesday...

Air Force Academy to Replace Leadership By ROBERT GEHRKE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top two leaders at the Air Force Academy are not responsible for the sexual assault scandal at the school, but they should be held accountable for the culture that allowed the problem to continue, Air Force Secretary James Roche said Wednesday. "Still, change must occur, and a new leadership team to implement these changes is in the best interest of the academy and the Air Force," Roche said in a statement. The top two academy officers - Lt. Gen. John D. Dallager and Brig....

Friday December 14 4:27 PM ET Boeing Exec: Layoffs to Be at Least 25,000 SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing Co. expects to lay off at least 25,000 workers by the middle of next year, the head of the aerospace giant's commercial aircraft business said on Friday, in comments that raised the minimum number of previously announced job cuts by 25 percent. Chicago-based Boeing said in September it would cut 20,000 to 30,000 workers in its Seattle-area jetliner unit, saying the post-Sept. 11 travel slump has forced airlines to scale back orders for new jets. Boeing's commercial jet chief, Alan Mulally, defended ...

A Raging fire in a Rocket Fuel Factory has caused the evacuation of nearly 100 square blocks in the Eastern part of Las Vegas. A fire which started this morning at 11:00PST is now burning out of control and being allowed to burn, as Fire Officials consider it to dangerous to approach The fire which is in an area between Charlston and Sahara, and bounded on the west by Boulder Highway has caused the evacuation of all homes and businesses in this area and the Red Cross has set up a shelter at Valley High School for the displaced ...

Little League Star Danny Almonte is 14, Dominican Government Finds FNC Friday, August 31, 2001 Respond to Editor Email this Article The Dominican government has determined that Danny Almonte is 14, not 12 – a finding that has led the Little League to strip the star pitcher's team of their third-place World Series finish, and left his father facing criminal charges. The discovery wiped out all of the victories won by the Rolando Polino Little League All-Stars, who hailed from the Bronx, N.Y. Almonte astonished sports fans during the series by throwing a perfect game. The Bronx league's founder, ...

My Own Opinion on the Energy Crisis Dogging California by: Kathy S. Frankforter (native born and raised here in California) California is their own worse enemy and have no one else to blame for the mess they are in now, but themselves. It all comes down to the "extreme" California Environmental wackos who have continually blocked oil drilling and new power plants for the past decade. According to press reports, Governor Davis has been well aware of the current mess we are in, but chose to turn the other way. Here's another fact that many probably have forgotten...Gray Davis was ...

Thursday morning more than 5,000 truck loads of logs from all over the United States will start rolling into the tiny NorthWestern Montana of Eureka The Logging trucks will be driven by private individuals, who will unload their logs at the Owens and Hurst sawmill in Eureka. Owens and Hurst is the largest employer in Eureka, and is one of the few remaining privately owned saw mills in the North West. Owens and Hurst had to lay off over half of their employees in January becuse they could not get enough logs. The Forests have been closed to logging, even ...

Saturday, April 21, 2001 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal Judge: Morse sentence no cure But 28 to 92 years puts drunken driver's life in government's hands By GLENN PUIT REVIEW-JOURNAL Cynthia Jay-Brennan was unable to wipe the tears away in District Court Friday morning, so her husband did it for her. The quadriplegic sat in her wheelchair -- less than 10 yards away from felony drunken driver Clark Morse -- and wept as she told a packed courtroom the details about her life since Morse's sport utility vehicle struck the car she was driving on March 11, 2000"You can't ...

Will someone please tell me why people in a State would vote for a dead man,to be their next U. S. Senator over a man who has senority, plus, probably, would be a member of the majority and probably a powerful Committee Chairman?.

Clark County including Las Vegas, has early voting, we have been voting since October 17th. Clark County ( Las Vegas) has set a new record for early voter turn out, over 170,000 people have already voted. I'm not sure which way they voted but most of them looked pretty cut up like they had been crawling over broken glass.

Jennifer Flowers and her Attorney's, took the first steps today in a suit against Hillary Rodham Clinton, George Stephanoplis, and James Carville, in filing against the three named defendents in the Federal Court at the Folley Justice Center in Las Vegas Nevada. Ms. Flowers is claiming in her suit that the three defendents conspired to smear and defame Ms. Flowers. The Clinton, Stephanopolis, Carville,team of Attorneys have asked to have the case thrown out of Court. The Judge has said he will rule in two weeks. As was expected, none of the National News carried anything about this tonight. Ms ...

A Reply to teachers http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- OVER THE YEARS, the shallowest and silliest letters that have arrived in the mail have usually come from school teachers. In order to lessen a needless burden on the post office, let me answer those letters -- past, present and future -- once and for all, so that both the senders and the recipient can save themselves a lot of time. What teachers object to most often is my pointing out that the people who teach in our public schools are drawn overwhelmingly from the bottom half of college students. A recent book ...