Feeding Homeless is a Losing Bet in Las Vegas
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By Kathleen Hennessey Associated Press  LAS VEGAS -- This may be a boomtown, but Las Vegas is scattered with signs of bust. The newest sits outside a rare grassy refuge near the city's withered downtown.
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Huge gifts to charity from U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett and others have won widespread praise, but some say the same economic process that helped earn those fortunes is leaving billions more in dire poverty.
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In a hotel suite in Las Vegas a couple of days ago a fighter unpacked the bags he had carried down from the drab suburban bungalow that had been his rented home.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 16--CHAPEL HILL -- Plans for a downtown giving kiosk have hit another snag.   A committee formed to develop plans for the kiosk has suggested spending the money instead on an educational campaign to fight panhandling.
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By Kirsten Stewart, The Salt Lake Tribune  Sep. 11--Utahns lost their food stamps last month under a new policy that  anti-hunger advocates say they would have opposed had they known about it.    That's fewer than 2 percent of the 54,750 households on food stamps in  any given month.
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A few years ago, casinos across the United States were closing their poker rooms to make space for more popular and lucrative slot machines.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - Driven from splintered trailers, roofless condos and powerless suburban homes, Hurricane Charley's hungry victims sweated through long lines Monday to find food, showers and drinking water three days after the storm left their lives in shambles...
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A deal that would have saved Donald Trump&#39;s casino company is off. His casinos are running low on cash. And Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts is drowning in $1.
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The number of city residents relying on food from charities and unable to feed their families is rising, according to a report issued by an advocacy group.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- As relief officials struggle to reach homeless tsunami survivors, another concern is quietly making the rounds of donor meetings: the threat of corruption.
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There's lazy, and then there's Las Vegas lazy.
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After reading about laws around the country banning panhandling, I think it is a wonderful idea for our state.  It would be great to make it retroactive to when Dave Checketts came begging.  Jeff Ayers  Kaysville  (c) 2007 Deseret News (Salt Lake City).
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By Of, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Mar. 9--By Nicole Radzievich   Habitat for Humanity of the Lehigh Valley wants to build its largest affordable housing development just up the hill from where a proposed casino is expected to help rebuild the old steel town of Bethlehem.
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Here is the  cold, hard reality of the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards that  will be handed out Sunday at the Beverly Hilton: A lot of  people are going to lose a lot of money.
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With a freezer full of food about to spoil, there was only one thing for Nestor Tsimpedes to do after Hurricane Charley made a shambles of his restaurant &#151; feed people for free.
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In the world&#39;s gambling capital, a city built on the back of so many broken dreams, Danny Williams&#39;s mission to win the world heavyweight title ended in a painful, humiliating and bloody defeat at the Mandalay Bay Hotel where he was utterly outclassed by
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Not much ever gets in the way of the gambling in Las Vegas, but MTV and its Video Music Awards elbowed it aside for a while Sunday night at the Palms Casino.