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LAS VEGAS - - A man who committed five bank robberies in the Las Vegas area in 2005 while he was on escape status for a prior bank robbery sentence, has been sentenced to just over ten years in federal prison, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
YSASSI was convicted by a Las Vegas jury on September 8, 2005, of robbing two banks in Henderson and three banks in Las Vegas between February 25, 2005, and March 31, 2005.
The case was investigated by Detectives with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and Special Agents of the FBI, and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys William R. Reed and Margaret M. Stanish.
www.usdoj.gov /usao/nv/home/pressrelease/december2005/ysassi121305.htm   (485 words)

  
  Las Vegas metropolitan area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Las Vegas metropolitan area, better known as the Las Vegas Valley, is a 600 square mile (1600 km²) basin that is part of Clark County in southern Nevada.
The metropolitan area generally thought to be defined by the Spring Mountains on the west, Sheep Mountains to the north, Muddy Mountains, Eldorado Range and Lake Mead to the east, and the Black Mountains to the south.
The land in the Las Vegas Valley is sandy desert with mountains in the distance.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Las_Vegas_metropolitan_area   (1778 words)

  
 Las Vegas, Nevada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name Las Vegas is often applied to the unincorporated areas of Clark County that surround the city, especially the resort areas on and near the Las Vegas Strip.
Las Vegas (in English: the grasslands or meadows) was given its name by Spaniards in the Antonio Armijo party, who used the water in the area while heading north and west along the Old Spanish Trail from Texas.
Las Vegas was ranked as the 29th largest city in the United States in 2000, but recent estimates state the city's population surpassed that of Atlanta, Nashville, Washington, D.C. Louisville, Denver and Boston to place Las Vegas at #22.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Las_Vegas,_Nevada   (3674 words)

  
 Las Vegas - MSN Encarta
The seat of Clark County, Las Vegas is located in the Las Vegas Valley, a desert surrounded by the Spring Mountains to the west, Frenchman Mountain to the east, the Sheep and Las Vegas ranges to the north and the McCullough Range to the south.
Las Vegas serves as the center of one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States.
The growth of the Las Vegas metropolitan region was the fastest in the nation in the 1990s, increasing 83 percent between 1990 and 2000.
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 Wikinfo | Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the county seat of Clark County, Nevada.
Las Vegas is sometimes called "Sin City" due to the popularity of legalized gambling, availability of alcoholic beverages any time of the day and night, various forms and degrees of adult entertainment, and legalized prostitution in nearby counties (Nevada law prohibits prostitution in counties which have large populations).
Las Vegas enjoys a desert climate with very little rainfall, and extreme heat in the summer; highs of 105 degrees Farenheit (40 degrees Celsius) are common from May to September, and for several days each year, temperatures may exceed 115 degrees (46 degrees Celsius).
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 Las vegas attractions
Las Vegas (often informally abbreviated to "Vegas") is the most populous city in the state of Nevada, United States, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally known vacation, shopping, entertainment, and gambling destination.
Las Vegas (English: "The Meadows" or "The Grasslands") was given its name by Spaniards in the Antonio Armijo party, who used the water in the area while heading north and west along the Old Spanish Trail from Texas.
Las Vegas is one of the most dynamic cities in the world, "reinventing" itself as a gambling mecca, family destination, capital of hedonism ("What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas"), or hotspot for dining and shopping over the years.
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 Las Vegas - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Las Vegas is widely recognized as a cultural, financial and culinary capital of the United States.
Las Vegas is one of the few places in the U.S. where gambling and, more controversially, Elvis impersonation, are not only legal but are actively encouraged and practised by visitors and locals alike.
Las Vegas is also haven for intellectuals and nerds from all around the world as it serves as a crossroad for new ideas and a melting point for various philosophical schools.
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 Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The name "Las Vegas" is often also applied to the unincorporated areas of Clark County that surround the city, especially the resort areas on and near the Las Vegas Strip.
Las Vegas has a desert climate with very little rainfall, and extreme heat in the summer; highs of 105°F are common from May to September, and for several days each year, temperatures may exceed 115°F.
Since Las Vegas is located in a valley with a single outlet, the Las Vegas Wash, all rain runoff drains to the east side of the valley and into Lake Mead.
www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Las_Vegas.html   (3115 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: LV area ranked 8th most dangerous   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Las Vegas metropolitan area is ranked as the eighth most dangerous in the nation in a report released today.
Las Vegas placed 12th on the list of most dangerous metro areas list in 2003, and in 2002 it was ranked as the 10th safest.
Another factor that skews analysis of Las Vegas' crime statistics is that the numbers reflect only the resident population and not the tourists that can swell the city's population by about 100,000 on any given day, law enforcement authorities have said.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2004/nov/22/517866454.html   (581 words)

  
 Las Vegas, Nevada - The Largest City in Nevada
Las Vegas is the largest city in Nevada, United States, the largest city founded in the 20th century, and a major vacation, shopping, and gambling destination.
The name Las Vegas is often applied to the unincorporated areas of Clark County that surround the city, especially the resort areas on and near the Las Vegas Strip.
Las Vegas is sometimes called "Sin City" due to the popularity of legalized gambling, availability of alcoholic beverages any time (like all of Nevada), various forms and degrees of adult entertainment, and legalized prostitution in nearby counties (Nevada law prohibits prostitution in counties which have populations greater than 400,000).
www.senasellsvegas.com /las_vegas_nv.htm   (264 words)

  
 Las Vegas @ RockyMountainRoads.com
The city of Las Vegas is nestled in a basin in the Mojave Desert.
Interstate 515 is the Las Vegas Expressway that bisects Interstate 15 in downtown Las Vegas.
This was one of the Las Vegas City Council's three priorities for the 2001 session of the Legislature.
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 Las Vegas Water   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
At the end of the twentieth century, Las Vegas faced a water crisis: the city would not be able to continue to grow into the new millennium on its existing water supply.
Las Vegas was growing at a steady pace, adding roughly 5,000 new residents each month, year after year, putting it among the fastest growing areas in the country.
With the 1990s looming and the population of the greater Las Vegas metropolitan area approaching 1 million, with no sign of slowing, Patricia Mulroy, the hard driving general manager of the Las Vegas Valley Water District, knew something had to be done.
www.greatbasinweb.com /archives/lasvegaswater.html   (4206 words)

  
 Las Vegas Hotels - Huge Las Vegas Hotel Discounts
Don't forget the area sees on average more than 300 sunny days a year, with winter temperatures usually hovering in the 50s, summer temperatures in the 70s.
Las Vegas - Las Vegas is a combination of fast gaming action, glamour and glitz, sophistication and debauchery, all in the middle of the desert.
Las Vegas Hotels - Use this guide to search for hotels in and around the city of Las Vegas.
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 Greater Las Vegas Area   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Las Vegas is located at the southern tip of Nevada in the Great Basin – the western region between the Sierra Nevada and Wasatch mountain ranges – which contains isolated mountains and has no drainage to the ocean.
Las Vegas is the 33rd largest metro area in the country with a population of 1.7 million residents in Clark County
Las Vegas is the home of UNLV, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Nevada State College, Community College of Southern Nevada and 17 private colleges and universities.
www.ccsn.nevada.edu /hr/glvma.htm   (308 words)

  
 Las Vegas Weekly Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In the "Las Vegas Eligible Metropolitan Area," the Valley is included, as is all of Nye County, and parts of Mojave County which are actually in Arizona.
FOPP is a joint program, administrated by the Municipal Court and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's Vice section in conjunction with the Health District, Family Youth Services and the Downtown Las Vegas Partnership.
The next presentation on the agenda is supposed to be by the Downtown Las Vegas Partnership, a group of businesspeople from the local community who are fed up with prostitution in the area.
www.lasvegasweekly.com /features/sex.html   (2426 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: Study finds Las Vegas to be a linguistic melting pot
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The Las Vegas area is one of the most linguistically diverse metropolitan areas in the country, according to a national report released this week by the U.S. English Foundation.
The study, which ranked the Las Vegas metropolitan area 21st among the 200 metropolitan areas surveyed, found that 84 languages are spoken by southern Nevadans.
But the Las Vegas Police Department is struggling to keep 23 part-time interpreters who speak mainly English and Spanish.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/nevada/2005/mar/13/031310701.html   (541 words)

  
 Bio at BlinkBits. Las Vegas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Las Vegas was established in 1905, and officially became a city in 1911.
Las Vegas is the most populous city in Nevada, United States, the most populous city founded in the 20th century, and a major vacation, shopping, and gambling destination.
Las Vegas' climate is typical of the Mojave Desert in which it is located, with very little rainfall, and extreme heat in the summer; highs of 105andnbsp;anddeg;F (40andnbsp;anddeg;C) are common from May to September, and for several days each year, temperatures may exceed 115andnbsp;anddeg;F (46andnbsp;anddeg;C).
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 Gambling Las Vegas Style
The Las Vegas metropolitan area, which attracts nearly 3 5 million visitors annually, accounts for the lion’s share of the multibillion dollar figure.
When the elegant Bellagio opened on the Las Vegas Strip October 15, 1998, as an adult resort, the hotel barred people from the premises who were under 18 years of age unless they were registered guests of the hotel.
Some Las Vegas casinos treat gamblers to plush seating, free drinks and buffets in the resorts’ race and sports book complexes where live racing and athletic events are viewed on giant, satellite-fed screens.
www.ocregister.com /lasvegaslive/gambling.html   (1500 words)

  
 Las Vegas Market
The metropolitan area has one of the strongest economies in the US, gaining 30,000 new jobs in 2003 and an estimated 37,000 in 2004, even as unemployment rose on a national level.
Las Vegas real estate shows no sign of slowing down and continues to be in high demand.
Las Vegas is known as the entertainment capital of the world for good reason.
www.lasvegashomesforsale.us /LasVegasMarket.html   (3267 words)

  
 Metropolitan Las Vegas Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The El Rancho Vegas, which was ultra luxurious for its time, was built in 1941 on what would become the Las Vegas Strip; and, beginning a trend that still continues today, each new property tried to outdo existing hotels in luxurious amenities and thematic splendor.
metropolitan area has primarily consisted of the income derived from tourism, the service industry, military installations, governmental and municipal agencies as well as mining, manufacturing, distribution and the Nevada Test Site.
The rates in the state’s metropolitan areas, which are not adjusted for anticipated seasonal variations, rose more sharply.
www.appraisersoflasvegas.com /MetroLasVegasOverview   (1835 words)

  
 Las Vegas, Nev.
Between April 1990 and April 2000, the Las Vegas metropolitan area population increased by 83%, growing from 852,737 to 1,563,282.
Las Vegas is the “marriage capital” of America; there are 50 wedding chapels in the city.
Las Vegas has a favorable business climate: taxes are relatively low, and there are neither city nor state income taxes.
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 In Business Las Vegas
The Las Vegas metropolitan area was the second-hottest city nationally for appreciation in the 12-month period ending March 31 with housing prices up 33.3 percent, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight said in a recent report.
Monthly statistics released by the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors showed that the median price of all homes sold during that month jumped 1 percent from $297,000 reported in April to reach the $300,000 mark.
With that in mind, she said the development is attracting the attention of Las Vegas homeowners looking to reap the profit from their recent surge in home values.
www.inbusinesslasvegas.com /2005/06/24/feature1.html   (926 words)

  
 Las Vegas Weekly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The illiteracy rate in Las Vegas is 18 percent, according to Literacy Volunteers of America.
Under city zoning ordinances, an area may be designated "historic" if it includes a substantial concentration of buildings that are 50 years old or older and reflective of the city's cultural, political and economic past.
Las Vegas has only one trauma center that handles some 4,000 trauma cases a year.
www.lasvegasweekly.com /2004/07/01/feature3.html   (3275 words)

  
 About The Realty Group - Las Vegas  Nevada
Las Vegas has experienced record growth in the past decade.
Census figures show the Las Vegas metropolitan area has grown from 750,000 in 1990 to nearly one and half million residents by 2000, with an average annual income of $28,000.
The Realty Group looks forward to continuing to serve the Las Vegas community into the 21st century with a focus on integrity and value for all of our customers and clients, new and old alike.
www.lasvegasrealtygroup.com /regr_biography.html   (149 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (also known as the LVMPD or Metro) is the joint city-county police force for Clark County, Nevada.
Metro was formed on July 1, 1973 by merging the City of Las Vegas Police Department with the Clark County Sheriff's Department.
Metro serves the city limits of Las Vegas and the unincorporated areas of Clark County.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Las_Vegas_Metropolitan_Police_Department   (843 words)

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