By Norm Clarke The O.J. Simpson jury got a thumbs up from talk-show host David Letterman. "Here's what happened," said Letterman, turning serious during his monologue Monday. "The jury did a little something unusual for an O.J. jury.

By Mike Weatherford Las Vegas has put everything onstage from the sinking of the Titanic to an aerial view of a samurai battle. So it probably could field an adaptation of the movie "Point Break," complete with surfing and a skydiving battle.

By Norm Clarke Michael Jackson's future was probably part of the dinner conversation Tuesday when he met with Thomas Barrack Jr., the man who rescued the singer's Neverland Ranch from public auction.

By Mike Weatherford So, Las Vegas tried to become a family town in the '90s, when it built this Lego castle and a bad theme park. The latter was a dismal flop, and the Strip went back to being an adult Disneyland. The nightclub scene exploded and the rest is history.

By Norm Clarke Almost four decades after a round-the-word tour with Bob Hope, Sue Lowden came away from a conversation with John McCain convinced it truly is a small world. McCain was in Las Vegas a year ago as the keynote speaker for the Clark County Lincoln Day Dinner.